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9781761170379
The House of Blue Glass

Alan Atkinson

March 2026
Acclaimed historian Alan Atkinson pieces together the life of Penelope Lucas, the first professionally qualified woman to emigrate from Europe to Australia.
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9781761170638
Raven Mother

Jane Messer

March 2026
In Raven Mother, Jane Messer weaves together her Jewish family’s compelling and tragic story – stretching back and forth between Berlin, Israel, Palestine, Melbourne and Sydney.
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9781761170515
A People's Guide to the Australian Constitution

Rosalind Dixon, William Partlett

March 2026
Leading legal academics Rosalind Dixon and Will Partlett bring the Australian Constitution and its importance vividly to life.
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9781761170713
The Library That Made Me: 200 Years of the State Library of NSW

Edited by Richard Neville, Phillipa McGuinness

March 2026
A love letter to libraries everywhere.
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9781761170560
Urban Pest Management in Australia New Edition
Ion Staunton, Phillip Hadlington, John Gerozisis
February 2026
A new fully updated edition of the major reference work for Australian pest control operators.
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Speak Up: How to be a confident presenter and media spokesperson
Speak Up: How to be a confident presenter and media spokesperson

Theresa Miller

February 2026
Whatever your role, this easy-to-use guide will inspire you to step up to the microphone, tell your story and make an impact.
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9781761170737
The First Albanese Government: Governing in an age of disruption and division, 2022–2025

Edited by Michelle Grattan, John Halligan, John Hawkins

February 2026
Australia’s leading voices on politics and policy examine the first Albanese Government from 2022 to 2025.
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9781761170119
Looking from the North: Australian history from the top down

Henry Reynolds

November 2025
Acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds turns Australian history on its axis in a ground-breaking exploration of how colonisation north of the Tropic of Capricorn was very different to the southern states.
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9781742237800
Heart of Ice: A journey into Antarctica’s frozen realm

Joy McCann

November 2025
Acclaimed writer Joy McCann takes the reader on a compelling journey, navigating entangled stories of ice and rock, humans, animals and other species, through the prism of Antarctica’s ice.
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9781761170553
PIX: The Magazine that told Australia's Story

Margot Riley

November 2025
The magazine that shocked, entertained and informed Australians like never before is celebrated in a new book.
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9781761170171
Liars, cheats and copycats: Trickery and deception in nature

James O'Hanlon

November 2025
Popular science writer James O’Hanlon introduces readers to a smorgasbord of creatures who use disguise, camouflage, mimicry and misdirection to beat their predators.
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9781761170508
The Best Australian Science Writing 2025

Edited by Zoe Kean, Tegan Taylor, foreword by Veena Sahajwalla

November 2025
This much-loved anthology – now in its fifteenth year – selects the most riveting, entertaining, poignant and fascinating stories from Australian writers, poets and scientists.
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9781761170492
Vision and Hope: A history of St Mark’s College, 1925–2025

Carolyn Collins Paul Sendziuk

November 2025
An illustrated history of the first 100 years of St Mark’s College.
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9781761170256
Hooked: Inside the murky world of Australia's gambling industry

Quentin Beresford

November 2025
With a cast of questionable characters, iconic corporate brands, eye-watering greed, political subterfuge and the many state and federal politicians who have sold out to the gambling industry, Hooked exposes the underbelly of gambling in Australia.
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9781742238043
Newcastle: The Lives and Times of a City

Scott Bevan

October 2025
Newcastle finds itself on shifting ground. But it's not an earthquake, or subsidence due to an old mine. It's perception that's shifting.
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9781761170102
Unfinished Revolution: The feminist fightback

Virginia Haussegger

October 2025
Unfinished Revolution is a clarion call to reignite revolutionary feminist action.
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9781761170386
(Be)wilder: Journeys in Nature

Darryl Jones

October 2025
Can our interactions with wildlife help answer life’s big questions? Acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl explores how people around the world interact with the natural world.
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9781761170546
2026 Australasian Sky Guide

Nick Lomb

October 2025
The ultimate guide to the night sky.
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9781761170362
Australian Heroes of World War II: Remarkable stories of battlefield courage

Mark Johnston

October 2025
Leading military historian Mark Johnston tells stories of the courage of individual soldiers across every battle in which Australians fought in World War II.
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9781761170461
Giants

Jem Cresswell

October 2025
A photographic celebration of some of nature’s most majestic creatures –humpback whales.
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9781761170355
Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Nauru: The Problem of Resettlement 1962–1965

Edited by Stephen Henningham, Matthew Jordan, foreword by Penny Wong

October 2025
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9781761170195
Elizabeth Harrower: The woman in the watch tower

Susan Wyndham

October 2025
The revealing biography of a leading – and enigmatic – Australian novelist.
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9781761170409
Living Greatly in the Law: Hal Wootten’s selected writing and speeches

Edited by David Dixon, Andrew Lynch

September 2025
In this edited collection of essays, speeches and unpublished work, David Dixon and Andrew Lynch present Wootten’s contribution to shaping a more just society.
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9781742237930
Walking Sydney: Fifteen walks with a city’s writers

Belinda Castles

September 2025
Walking Sydney invites you to walk with a city’s writers as they share their places of home and imagination.
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9781761170164
Plain Life: On thinking, feeling and deciding

Antonia Pont

August 2025
Antonia Pont’s Plain Life presents a series of essays that think through central ideas of happiness, rest and relaxation, talking and allowing for silence, community and leadership.
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9781761170621
James Fairfax: Portrait of a collector in eleven objects
Alexander Edward Gilly
August 2025
This evocative new biography of James Fairfax – businessman, philanthropist, collector and champion of Australian art – from his nephew, Alexander Gilly, pieces together Fairfax’s life through the prism of his collection.
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9781761170300
Deep History: Country and Sovereignty

Edited by Ann McGrath, Jackie Huggins

July 2025
In Deep History: Country and Sovereignty, edited by Jackie Huggins and Ann McGrath, leading historians and thinkers explore the First Nations histories of caring for places and people over millennia.
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9781761170416
Honour's Mimic

Charmian Clift, afterword by Nadia Wheatley

June 2025
Honour’s Mimic combines the authentic Greek setting of Charmian Clift’s travel memoirs with the fine writing that has caused her to be described as Australia’s greatest essayist.
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9781761170287
Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family

Micaela Sahhar

May 2025
Fixing its gaze on moments, places and objects – from the streets of Bethlehem to the Palestinian neighbourhoods of the New Jerusalem – Find me at the Jaffa Gate assembles a story of Palestinian diaspora, returning to the origins of violence in the Nakba.
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9781761170294
The Power of Choice

Julian Kingma

May 2025
In The Power of Choice, award-winning photographer Julian Kingma turns his camera on those who choose assisted dying, and those who help them on their final journey. These intimate portraits, along with essays from Andrew Denton and Richard Flanagan, invite us to ask, perhaps for the first time, what makes a good death.
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9781761170058
Vaccine Nation: Science, reason and the threat to 200 years of progress

Raina MacIntyre

May 2025
A gripping journey through the past, present and future of vaccines.
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9781742237503
Inconvenient Women: Australian radical writers 1900–1970

Jacqueline Kent

May 2025
Acclaimed biographer Jacqueline Kent traces the social and political issues that inspired – and often hampered – Australian radical women writers and their desire to change the world.
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9781761170010
Human/Nature: On life in a wild world

Jane Rawson

April 2025
A lyrical work of creative nonfiction, Human/Nature is an exploration of how and why we think about the natural world the way we do.
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9781761170027
Gull Force: Australian POWs on Ambon and Hainan, 1941–45

Joan Beaumont

April 2025
Acclaimed historian Joan Beaumont tells the story of Gull Force, the soldiers who were held as prisoners of war by the Japanese on Ambon and Hainan during the Second World War.
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9781761170188
How to be a (fantastic sensational) good enough kid

Alice Peel with illustrations by Beck Feiner

April 2025
How to be a (fantastic sensational) good enough kid is the ultimate guide for kids and parents to discover that feeling ‘good enough’ is already within our reach.
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9781742238029
Uprising: War in the colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844

Stephen Gapps

April 2025
The award-winning author of The Sydney Wars reveals the breadth of frontier resistance warfare
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