Summer Reading

9781761170270

Swimming Sydney: A tale of 52 swims

In a love letter to the swimming spots of Sydney, Chris Baker takes 52 swims in and around Sydney over the course of a calendar year.

9781742238074

Dr Rip’s Essential Beach Book

Australia’s leading beach scientist shares everything you need to know about how beaches work and how to swim safely, with examples from Australia and across the globe.

9781742238104

Why Are We Like This?: An evolutionary search for answers to life's big questions

An exhilarating scientific journey, Why Are We Like This? takes us behind the scenes of the evolutionary paradoxes that make up life on this planet.

9781742237039

marramarra: Indigenous artists making history visible

Brook Garru Andrew, Jessica Neath

marramarra highlights contemporary Indigenous art from across the planet and how artists and their communities are providing truth-telling about the past and inspiration to imagine better futures.

9781761170157

The Best Australian Science Writing 2024

Edited by Jackson Ryan, Carl Smith, foreword by Corey Tutt

The annual collection – now in its fourteenth year – celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.

9781742238135

Travelling to Tomorrow: The modern women who sparked Australia’s romance with America

Yves Rees rewrites the story of Australian–US relations by spotlighting ten trailblazing women whose extraordinary lives have largely been forgotten.

9781742237909

Australia in 100 Words

Dr Amanda Laugesen

Captivating and quirky, Australia in 100 Words takes readers chronologically through Australian history to tell a unique story through language

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The End of the Morning

Charmian Clift, edited by Nadia Wheatley

The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift.

9781742237992

Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging

Peripathetic is an essay collection exploring globalised identities in flux.

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.

9781742237367

Curlews on Vulture Street

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

9781761170324

Sydney: A biography Updated edition

Acclaimed playwright and author, Louis Nowra explores the energy, beauty, vulgarity, dynamism and pulsating sense of self-importance of his adopted city, Sydney.

Hilary Bell, Antonia Pesenti

LONGLISTED for the 2020 ABIA Small Publisher's Children's Book of the Year