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Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs

Jane McAdam, Fiona Chong

Everyone has the right to seek asylum under international law. However, successive governments in Australia have declared the need to 'stop the boats' whatever the cost, be it human, economic, moral or legal.

9781742236179

Bedlam at Botany Bay

*Winner of the Australian History Prize in the NSW Premier's History Awards 2020*

The web was supposed to transform our world. So why are things so messed up?

Wild, passionate and ultimately tragic: the love story of Australia's famous literary couple, Charmian Clift and George Johnston, plays out on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra in the 1950s in this reimagining from award-winning playwright Sue Smith.

Stop Being Reasonable

Eleanor Gordon-Smith

SHORTLISTED for Australian Book Design Awards 2020 Best Designed Autobiography/Biography/Memoir Nonfiction Cover

Siobhán McHugh

The Snowy: A History tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of the world's engineering marvels.

Australia's Vietnam

**2019 Nib Military History Prize Finalist ** 'This book should be read by anyone interested in the way myths become accepted as history.' — Peter Edwards, author of Australia and the Vietnam War

Michael Duffy, Nick Hordern

World War Noir is an exposition of the old truth that war and crime — and sex, drugs and popular music — go hand in hand.

Dr Space Junk vs The Universe

Dr Alice Gorman

Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction

Hugh Dolan, illustrated by Dave Dye

This graphic book brings to life the struggles of daily life on the goldfields and the powerful events of the Eureka stockade.

*WINNER of the 2020 Colin Roderick Award* *Longlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize*

The Thinking Woman

Julienne van Loon

WINNER of the Australian Book Design Awards 2020 Best Designed Autobiography/Biography/Memoir Nonfiction Cover

WINNER of the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction

9780980834789

Paddington: A history

Edited by Greg Young

The first major history of Paddington — Sydney's celebrated heritage suburb — in forty years

9781742236209

Capturing Nature

Trade Illustration Selection in the 2020 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show

The Australian Students' Guide to Writing and Grammar

Age range 12+ Do you ever think about the structure and arrangement of what you say and write? And why it's said and written like that and not some other how?

9781742235806

Transformations: Harriet and Helena Scott, colonial Sydney’s finest natural history painters

Vanessa Finney

The fascinating story of the Scott sisters, who transformed nature into art in their extraordinary paintings of butterflies and moths.

Geoffrey Lehmann

'For my first ten years I grew up in Lavender Bay with the smell of salt water, in houses facing the grey curved eye of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. There was a distant rumble, like thunder, when trains went across.'

Edited by Ainslie Murray, Xing Ruan

In Hand & Mind Through dialogues, interviews, creative reflections and essays, Hand & Mind brings together projects and critical writing to provide a fascinating insight into the study of architecture.

A New History of the Irish in Australia

Dianne Hall, Prof Elizabeth Malcolm

Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards 2019: History

Aaron Pegram, Craig Blanch

**2019 Nib Military History Prize Finalist** For Valour

Honeysuckle Creek

Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history as Neil Armstrong took his first step.

Shirleene Robinson, Alex Greenwich

A compelling, moving account of the long journey to marriage equality in Australia.

The Best Australian Science Writing 2018

Edited by John Pickrell

'For the general reader, there are few better ways to get the backstory to the latest developments and controversies in science than through this annual collection of essays (and poems).' — Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald

Back from the Brink, 1997-2001

Edited by Tom Frame

The years 1997–2001 were eventful ones for the Howard Government. This second volume of the Howard Government series explores these tumultuous years.

The Women's Atlas

'This is not just an atlas about women. It's a feminist remapping of the world.'

Diving for Seahorses

Hilde Østby, Ylva Østby

What makes us remember? Why do we forget? And what, exactly, is a memory?

'I fell in love with my first misfit at the age of three. He was a disabled man in a wheelchair who sold newspapers every afternoon outside the Empire Hotel in Annandale. Whenever I glimpsed him in the distance I would break into a run, jump onto his lap, and smother him with kisses.'

The Getting of Garlic

The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean

Edited by Peter Burness

A cheeky, progressive adult alphabet book that celebrates and illuminates LGBTQIA+ terminology.

Seamus O'Hanlon

'Our cities are changing fast. Seamus' O'Hanlon tells us how and why, with a keen historian's eye for both the big picture and the local scene. An indispensable guide to the contemporary Australian city.' — Professor Graeme Davison

Robyn Williams, presenter of The Science Show on ABC Radio, reveals all in Turmoil

A Certain Style

Jacqueline Kent

The Future of Everything

'A powerful and realistic message of hope for the future' — Professor John Quiggin, University of Queensland

Julie McIntyre, John Germov

Shortlisted for 2019 NSW Premier's History Award: NSW regional and community history prize