Bestsellers

9781742238111

Everything You Need to Know about the Voice

Megan Davis, George Williams

Australians will soon be faced with an important choice. Will they vote Yes to change our nation’s Constitution to introduce an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice? Or will they vote No and bring the recognition process to a halt and, along with it, the aspirations of an overwhelming number of Australia’s first peoples? The stakes could not be higher.

Bhutan to Blacktown

Om Dhungel, with James Button

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.

Revealing Secrets: An unofficial history of Australian Signals intelligence & the advent of cyber

Clare Birgin, John Blaxland

This unofficial account of Australian Signals intelligence reveals the organisation’s efforts to reveal the secrets of others.

Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the revolution

Edited by Michelle Arrow

Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires

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.

Back Up unearths the causes of back pain, the ways we try (and fail) to treat it, and the new science that might hold a cure.

The Plant Thieves: Secrets of the herbarium

Prudence Gibson

The Plant Thieves reveals remarkable stories from the National Herbarium of New South Wales – its people, its archives and its most guarded specimens.

9781742237664

Underground Lovers: Encounters with Fungi

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.

Dispatch from Berlin, 1943: The story of five journalists who risked everything

Anthony Cooper, with Thorsten Perl

The Chipilly Six

This is the remarkable war story of six ordinary Australian soldiers: the Chipilly Six.