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Dr Space Junk vs The Universe

Dr Alice Gorman

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

*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

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.

9780980834789

Paddington: A history

Edited by Greg Young

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

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?

9781742236209

Capturing Nature

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

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.

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.

Edited by Julie Cracknell, Peter Lonergan, Sam Rickard

Bruce Rickard was one of the most significant Australian architects of the twentieth century. A key member of the Sydney School, his practice spanned 60 years and he produced some of the most notable and recognisable houses of the period.

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.'

Australia Remember This Too!

'Enjoy hours reminiscing on Christmas Day about the Coles Cafeteria, Mello Yello yo-yos, Professor Julius Sumner Miller, Nintendo's original handheld Game & Watch and Singer sewing machines. A terrific time capsule.' — The Herald Sun

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

The Women's Atlas

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

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 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

Shirleene Robinson, Alex Greenwich

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

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.

'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.'

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

The Getting of Garlic

The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean

Edited by Peter Burness

Diving for Seahorses

Hilde Østby, Ylva Østby

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

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

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

Sean Mallon, Sébastien Galliot

A strikingly designed and richly illustrated retelling of the unique history of Samoan tattooing, from 3000 years ago to today.

Julie McIntyre, John Germov

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

This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited

'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?'

Adani and the War Over Coal

Quentin Beresford

Coal is the political, economic and cultural totem for debates about climate change. Yet Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock our politics – and our country – into the fossil fuel age.

Sam Twyford-Moore

'The Rapids is beautifully written: brimming with humour, empathy, pathos and heart. This book is an earnest, generous, and important contribution to ongoing global dialogue around mental health .' — Maxine Beneba Clarke

Serving in Silence?

Noah Riseman, Shirleene Robinson, Graham Willett

For the first time, Serving in Silence?

Edited by Tristan Moss, Tom Richardson

'Even a military that is solely dedicated to preparing for war creates, simply by existing, a suite of responsibilities that has very little to do with combat.' — Tristan Moss and Tom Richardson