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9781742235707
Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires

Sally Young

June 2023
In 1941, the paper emperors of the newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years — thanks to shrewd and ruthless behaviour from members of the Murdoch, Packer and Fairfax families and other key players — they grew into media monsters.
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9781742237893
Bhutan to Blacktown

Om Dhungel, with James Button

May 2023
Om Dhungel was forced to flee Bhutan as a refugee, eventually arriving in Australia — this traumatic upheaval brought a surprising blessing: what Om learned about life when he lost everything except life itself.
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9781742237947
Revealing Secrets: An unofficial history of Australian Signals intelligence and the advent of cyber

Clare Birgin, John Blaxland

May 2023
This unofficial account of Australian Signals intelligence reveals the organisation’s efforts to reveal the secrets of others.
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9781742237688
The Plant Thieves: Secrets of the herbarium

Prudence Gibson

May 2023
The Plant Thieves reveals remarkable stories from the National Herbarium of New South Wales – its people, its archives and its most guarded specimens.
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The Morrison Government: Governing through crisis, 2019-2022

Edited by Michelle Grattan, Brendan McCaffrie, Chris Wallace

April 2023
Leading thinkers on the policies and leadership of the Morrison Government from 2019 to 2022
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Dispatch from Berlin, 1943: The story of five journalists who risked everything

Anthony Cooper, with Thorsten Perl

April 2023
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Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the revolution

Edited by Michelle Arrow

April 2023
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9781742237664
Underground Lovers: The Secrets of Fungi

Alison Pouliot

March 2023
Underground Lovers brings us down to earth, magnifier in hand, to dwell with fungal allies and aliens, discover how fungi hold forests together, and why humans are deeply entwined with these unruly renegades of the subterrain.
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9781742237954
The Briefest English Grammar and Punctuation Guide Ever!

Ruth Colman

February 2023
The Briefest English Grammar and Punctuation Guide Ever! is the bestselling book that will teach you all the basics of using the English language.
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9781742237497
Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers

Chris Wallace

February 2023
Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.
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9781742237329
Everywhen

Edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, Jakelin Troy

February 2023
Everywhen is a ground-breaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history.
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9781742237572
Documents on Australian Foreign Policy

Edited by Bruce Hunt, Stephen Henningham

December 2022
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9781742236230
Born of Fire and Ash: Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000

Craig Stockings

December 2022
The first volume in the landmark Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor, Born of Fire and Ash is an honest, challenging and compelling account of the 1999–2000 East Timor crisis and Australia’s response to it.
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9781742235929
Sydney: A Biography

Louis Nowra

December 2022
Acclaimed playwright and author, Louis Nowra – author of Kings Cross and Woolloomooloo – expands his gaze to explore the energy, beauty, vulgarity, dynamism and pulsating sense of self-importance of his adopted city, Sydney.
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9781742237794
Sydney Harbour: A History, new edition

Ian Hoskins

December 2022
Award-winning historian Ian Hoskins revisits Sydney’s glittering harbour and the people who inhabited and shaped it in this updated edition.
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9781742237831
Voices of us: The independents’ movement transforming Australian democracy

Tim Dunlop

December 2022
Australian politics is changing. Voices of us looks towards the future with hope and ideas.
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9781742237763
Alphabetical Sydney: 10th anniversary edition

Antonia Pesenti, Hilary Bell

December 2022
Alphabetical Sydney turns ten!
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9781742237435
Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters: Australia’s first female filmmaking team

Mandy Sayer

November 2022
Introducing the McDonagh sisters … a trio of extraordinary and ground-breaking filmmakers.
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9781742237565
Elizabeth and John

Alan Atkinson

November 2022
A landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia’s most respected historians.
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9781742237640
The Best Australian Science Writing 2022

Edited by Ivy Shih

November 2022
The annual collection – now in its twelfth year – celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.
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9781742237527
Boundary Crossers: The hidden history of Australia's other bushrangers

Meg Foster

November 2022
Not all Australian bushrangers were white men, and not all were seen in a glowing light in their own time — historian Meg Foster reveals the stories of bushrangers who didn’t fit the mould.
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9781742237671
Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity

Raina MacIntyre

November 2022
World-renowned epidemiologist and biosecurity expert Raina MacIntyre reveals her insights into biological warfare, pandemics and the threats that lie ahead.
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9781742237732
How to Rule Your Own Country: The weird and wonderful world of micronations

Harry Hobbs, George Williams

November 2022
How to Rule Your Own Country is a lively account of the people who decide that ‘enough is enough’ and create their own nation.
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9781742237770
Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero, new edition

Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements

November 2022
An epic story of resistance, suffering and survival. Tongerlongeter resurrects a once-in-a-generation leader all Australians can admire.
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9781742237459
Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world

Brett Mason

October 2022
The remarkable story of Howard Florey and Mark Oliphant, two Australian scientists who played a vital role in the Allied victory in the Second World War and changed the course of history.
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9781742237695
Suburban Noir: Crime and mishap in 1950s and 1960s Sydney

Peter Doyle

October 2022
Peter Doyle – author of City of Shadows and Crooks Like Us – draws from forensic records and the private papers of detective Brian Doyle (the most famous cop of the day and Peter’s uncle), to explore the criminal underbelly of mid-20th century Sydney.
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9781742237756
The Naturalist: The remarkable life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch

Brendan Atkins

October 2022
For lovers of natural history, this is the first book to explore Allan Riverstone McCulloch’s scientific genius, artistic talents and his crucial role in the development of the Australian Museum.
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9781742237862
2023 Australasian Sky Guide

Nick Lomb

October 2022
The definitive guide to observing the Australian and New Zealand night sky.
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9781742237367
Curlews on Vulture Street

Darryl Jones

September 2022
Acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl Jones reveals the not-so-secret lives of the most common birds that share our towns and cities.
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9781742237787
Darwin Spitfires

Anthony Cooper

August 2022
It has been 80 years since the bombing of Darwin. This anniversary edition of Darwin Spitfires offers a detailed and fascinating history of this unparalleled attack.
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9781742237152
Australia’s China Odyssey

James Curran

August 2022
The story of the complex and crucial relationship between Australia and China, charting the highs and lows through the prism of the prime ministers who have handled relations with Beijing since Whitlam in 1972.
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9781742237510
Provocations

Jeff Sparrow

August 2022
Jeff Sparrow is one of Australia’s leading public intellectuals. From great controversies to the heroes and villains of our time, Provocations raises arguments that matter.
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9781742237251
Living Democracy

Tim Hollo

August 2022
Whether you’re a concerned community member, or someone who is already active in social or environmental campaigning, this book will inspire and inform you, and get you fired up to co-create a common, more equitable future.
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9781742237596
Forgotten War

Henry Reynolds

July 2022
Influential historian Henry Reynolds returns with this new edition of Forgotten War, which questions the conspicuous absence of the frontier wars from our official military history and public memory.
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9781742237473
Lessons from History

Edited by Carolyn Holbrook, Lyndon Megarrity, David Lowe

July 2022
Leading historians tackle the biggest challenges that face Australia and the world and show how the past provides context and knowledge that can guide us in the present.
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9781742237626
The Art of Coalition

Edited by David Lovell, Andrew Blyth

June 2022
The Art of Coalition focuses on the relationship between the Liberal and National parties during the Howard years, and the lessons and challenges of this partnership today.
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