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How to be a (fantastic sensational) good enough kid

Alice Peel with illustrations by Beck Feiner

How to be a (fantastic sensational) good enough kid is the ultimate guide for kids and parents to discover that feeling ‘good enough’ is already within our reach.

9781742238227

The Bee Squad: Boosting biodiversity in your neighbourhood

Judy Friedlander

The Bee Squad is jam-packed with fun adventures and hands-on projects to help kids boost biodiversity in their neighbourhood.

9781742237763

Alphabetical Sydney: 10th anniversary edition

Antonia Pesenti, Hilary Bell

Alphabetical Sydney turns ten!

Spacewarp: Colliding Comets and Other Cosmic Catastrophes

Saffron Howden, Dhana Quinn

Age range 10+ You don't need to be an adult to break news and change the world. You can start your career as a young reporter right now.

Slam Your Poetry

Miles Merrill, Narcisa Nozica

No props. No music. No costumes. Just you, your words and a mic-you've got two minutes to make the crowd scream your name.

Hilary Bell, Antonia Pesenti

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

The 13-Storey Treehouse

Adapted by Richard Tulloch, original author Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton

Adapted from Andy Griffiths' and Terry Denton's phenomenally successful Treehouse book series, Richard Tulloch's play — The 13-Storey Treehouse — is action-packed, full of laughs…with a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of man-eating sharks and a lemonade fountain!

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.

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?

We all think we know the story of Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous outlaw, but we've never seen him in full colour like this before …

The Marvellous Funambulist of Middle Harbour and Other Sydney Firsts

Hilary Bell, illustrated by Matthew Martin

Age range 6–9 years This is a story of Sydney In order of who did what first: The incidents, places and people, All illustrated and versed.

Numerical Street

Hilary Bell, Antonia Pesenti

Age range 3 to 8 Count as you walk up Numerical Street. Every page has a numerical treat. Get your pants altered, get your keys cut, Open the book before the shops shut.

The Australian Schoolkids' Guide to Debating and Public Speaking

Age range 10+ Welcome to the world of school debating and public speaking, the best training ground for speaking, reasoning, arguing and looking critically at the big issues of today.

Hugh Dolan, Adrian Threlfall

View the Reg Saunders teaching resource on the Reading Australia website

9781761170010

Human/Nature: On life in a wild world

A lyrical work of creative nonfiction, Human/Nature is an exploration of how and why we think about the natural world the way we do.

9781742238227

The Bee Squad: Boosting biodiversity in your neighbourhood

Judy Friedlander

The Bee Squad is jam-packed with fun adventures and hands-on projects to help kids boost biodiversity in their neighbourhood.

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John Busst: Bohemian artist and saviour of reef and rainforest

A rich biography of artist-turned-environmental campaigner John Büsst.

9781742238050

Getting to Know the Birds in Your Neighbourhood

Interested in birds but don’t know where to start? Overwhelmed by the bird guides? Want to know more about the birds you see around you? Then this is the book for you!

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.

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.

9781742237251

Living Democracy

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.

The Bondi to Manly Walk

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Wounded Country

Quentin Beresford

Beyond Climate Grief

How do we find courage when climate change overwhelms us emotionally?

Flames of Extinction

Over Australia's 2019–20 Black Summer bushfire season, scientists estimate that more than three billion native animals were killed or displaced. Many species — koalas, the regent honeyeater, glossy black cockatoo, the platypus — are inching towards extinction at the hands of mega-blazes and the changing climate behind them.

Living with the Anthropocene

Edited by Mr Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner, Jenny Newell

Personal and urgent, this is a literary anthology for our age, the age of humans.

The Ways of the Bushwalker

Whether you are inclined to put on your walking boots and pack your sleeping bag, or would rather stay in a luxury hut, this surefooted and witty book reveals how the ordinary act of walking can become extraordinary.

We've had a decade of distraction and inaction on climate change, but what made things go so very wrong in Australia? And what can the rest of the world learn from our mistakes – and opportunities?

What does a full-blown Fire Age look like? We are about to find out, and Australia will feel the looking-glass transition from an ice world to a fire world more fully and suddenly than elsewhere.

An epic journey of discovery into the heart of a vast and contested Australian wilderness.

Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, Joanna Atherfold Finn

'I'm going plastic free next month, who wants to join me?'

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.

In the beginning, there was the river — before the beach, before the drain, before the dredging, before the dams, before numerous other actions that altered the stream.

David Suzuki, Ian Hanington

A resounding post–Paris Agreement wake-up call about the urgency of the climate crisis that offers a range of practical solutions – and above all, hope.

Elizabeth Tynan

*Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History 2017*

On Track: Searching out the Bundian Way

On Track tells the story of John Blay's long-distance search for the Bundian Way, an important Aboriginal pathway between Mt Kosciuszko and Twofold Bay near Eden on the New South Wales far south coast. The 360-kilometre route traverses some of the nation's most remarkable landscapes, from the highest place on the continent to the ocean.

The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd

Quentin Beresford

Fearless and forensic in its analysis, the book shows that Tasmania's decades-long quest to industrialise nature fails every time. But the collapse of Gunns is the most telling of them all.

Transport Fuels from Australia's Gas Resources

Professor Robert Clark, Mr Mark J Thomson Dr

The transport sector in Australia depends heavily on imported oil-based fuels. With this comes the ever-present risk of oil supply shortages. But Australia is gas-rich and oil-poor, so it makes practical sense to assess how our own gas resources can be used to produce these fuels.

Curating Sydney

Jill Bennett, Saskia Beudel

What happens when artists are asked the questions usually addressed to planners and administrators?

Conservation in a Crowded World

Edited by John Merson, Rosie Cooney, Paul Brown

This book addresses some key questions for the sustainable use of natural environments: What should be conserved and who decides? Is 'use' compatible with conservation, and under what circumstances? Are trade-offs between conservation and development necessary? How do we find those elusive 'win-win' solutions?

Sustainable House

Whether you're planning to build or renovate, whether you live in an apartment or a house, Sustainable House

Sustainable Freshwater Aquacultures

Nick Romanowski

Essays & Philosophy

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Walking Sydney: Fifteen walks with a city’s writers

Belinda Castles

Walking Sydney invites you to walk with a city’s writers as they share their places of home and imagination.

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Living Greatly in the Law: Hal Wootten’s selected writing and speeches

Edited by David Dixon, Andrew Lynch

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Plain Life: On thinking, feeling and deciding

Antonia Pont’s Plain Life presents a series of essays that think through central ideas of happiness, rest and relaxation, talking and allowing for silence, community and leadership.

9781742237503

Inconvenient Women: Australian radical writers 1900–1970

Jacqueline Kent

Acclaimed biographer Jacqueline Kent traces the social and political issues that inspired – and often hampered – Australian radical women writers and their desire to change the world.

9781761170294

The Power of Choice

In The Power of Choice, award-winning photographer Julian Kingma turns his camera on those who choose assisted dying, and those who help them on their final journey. These intimate portraits, along with essays from Andrew Denton and Richard Flanagan, invite us to ask, perhaps for the first time, what makes a good death.

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Vaccine Nation: Science, reason and the threat to 200 years of progress

Raina MacIntyre

A gripping journey through the past, present and future of vaccines.

9781761170010

Human/Nature: On life in a wild world

A lyrical work of creative nonfiction, Human/Nature is an exploration of how and why we think about the natural world the way we do.

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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.

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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.

9781742237992

Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging

Peripathetic is an essay collection exploring globalised identities in flux.

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Hazzard and Harrower: The letters

Edited by Brigitta Olubas, Susan Wyndham

Two extraordinary writers, one difficult mother and a vanished literary world.

9781742238166

The End of the Morning

Charmian Clift, edited by Nadia Wheatley

The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift.

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The Best Australian Science Writing 2023

Edited by Donna Lu

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

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.

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Edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, Jakelin Troy

Everywhen is a ground-breaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history.

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The Best Australian Science Writing 2022

Edited by Ivy Shih

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

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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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Exquisitely written, Eda Gunaydin’s essays unsettle neat descriptions of inheritance, belonging and place.

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Sneaky Little Revolutions

edited by Nadia Wheatley

From her wild bohemian years on Hydra to her radical feminist writings, Charmian Clift is a larger-than-life personality of Australian literature.

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The Power of Podcasting

Siobhán McHugh

The gruesome and compelling tale of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard, longest-serving executioner for the colony of NSW.

The Education of Young Donald Trilogy

Donald Horne, introduction by Julia Horne, Nick Horne, foreword by Tracy Sorensen

A classic of Australian literature, The Education of Young Donald Trilogy combines Donald Horne’s three autobiographies — The Education of Young Donald (1967), Confessions of a New Boy (1985) and Portrait of an Optimist (1988) — in one volume.

Living with the Anthropocene

Edited by Mr Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner, Jenny Newell

Personal and urgent, this is a literary anthology for our age, the age of humans.

Katerina Bryant

In the tradition of Siri Hustvedt's The Shaking Woman , Bryant blends memoir with literary and historical analysis to explore women's medical treatment. Hysteria

The Memory Pool

Therese Spruhan

Smell the chlorine, taste the hot chips and feel the burning concrete underfoot as you read these stories of Australian childhoods at the pool.

Stop Being Reasonable

Eleanor Gordon-Smith

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

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

A Certain Style

Jacqueline Kent

Stranger Thingies

John Birmingham

John Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. He has written a thousand stories, some true, some not so much. These are the best ones and they're so good, and so funny, there has been no barrel-scraping involved. Really, this book could have been much longer.

Edited by Phillipa McGuinness

Writers, musicians, filmmakers, gamers, lawyers and academics talk about why copyright matters to them – or doesn't.

The Best Australian Business Writing 2012

Edited by Andrew Cornell

Friday on Our Minds

Friday on Our Minds

Memoir & Biography

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James Fairfax: Portrait of a collector in eleven objects

Alexander Edward Gilly

This evocative new biography of James Fairfax – businessman, philanthropist, collector and champion of Australian art – from his nephew, Alexander Gilly, pieces together Fairfax’s life through the prism of his collection.

9781761170287

Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family

Fixing its gaze on moments, places and objects – from the streets of Bethlehem to the Palestinian neighbourhoods of the New Jerusalem – Find me at the Jaffa Gate assembles a story of Palestinian diaspora, returning to the origins of violence in the Nakba.

9781742237503

Inconvenient Women: Australian radical writers 1900–1970

Jacqueline Kent

Acclaimed biographer Jacqueline Kent traces the social and political issues that inspired – and often hampered – Australian radical women writers and their desire to change the world.

9781761170201

Great at Heart: Gavin Merrick Long, Australia’s official Second World War historian

Great at Heart is the first life story of war correspondent, editor and principal author of the official history of the Second World War, Gavin Long.

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.

9781761170317

Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm New edition

An award-winning and landmark joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia’s most respected historians.

9781742237619

Take Flight: Incredible stories of Australian women who reach for the sky

From balancing on a wing tip to paragliding with an eagle, Take Flight tells the stories of Australian women who have leapt, tumbled and dived, and reached for the stars.

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John Busst: Bohemian artist and saviour of reef and rainforest

A rich biography of artist-turned-environmental campaigner John Büsst.

9781742238180

Hazzard and Harrower: The letters

Edited by Brigitta Olubas, Susan Wyndham

Two extraordinary writers, one difficult mother and a vanished literary world.

9781742237992

Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging

Peripathetic is an essay collection exploring globalised identities in flux.

9781761170041

How to Knit a Human: A memoir

How do you write a memoir when your memories have been taken? She awakens in hospital, greeted by nurses and patients she doesn’t recognise, but who address her with familiarity. She decides to untangle the clues.

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Saving Lieutenant Kennedy

The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president.

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Border Crossings: My Journey as an Outsider

Mohammad Chowdhury

Border Crossings takes you on a thrilling ride from the city of minarets to the heights of picture-perfect skyscrapers – a journey of finding one’s own identity and a place where you truly belong.

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.

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.

9781742237497

Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers

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

9781742235929

Sydney: A Biography

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.

9781742237435

Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters: Australia’s first female filmmaking team

Introducing the McDonagh sisters … a trio of extraordinary and ground-breaking filmmakers.

9781742237770

Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero, new edition

Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements

An epic story of resistance, suffering and survival. Tongerlongeter resurrects a once-in-a-generation leader all Australians can admire.

9781742237756

The Naturalist: The remarkable life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch

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.

The Education of Young Donald Trilogy

Donald Horne, introduction by Julia Horne, Nick Horne, foreword by Tracy Sorensen

A classic of Australian literature, The Education of Young Donald Trilogy combines Donald Horne’s three autobiographies — The Education of Young Donald (1967), Confessions of a New Boy (1985) and Portrait of an Optimist (1988) — in one volume.

Beyond Climate Grief

How do we find courage when climate change overwhelms us emotionally?

Picturing a Nation

The untold story of a major Australian artist. Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A.H. Fullwood (1863–1930) was also the most widely viewed British–Australian artist of the Heidelberg era.

Eating with My Mouth Open

'To eat is to build upon our collective story. We use food to say, again and again, who we are.'

Katerina Bryant

In the tradition of Siri Hustvedt's The Shaking Woman , Bryant blends memoir with literary and historical analysis to explore women's medical treatment. Hysteria

Caroline's Dilemma

Bettina Bradbury

Shortlisted for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History

The Joy of High Places

Longlisted for the 2020 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award

The Crow Eaters

'Ben Stubbs uncovers the sheer delight and surprise of discovering what's in your own backyard.' — Bob Byrne, author of Adelaide Remember When and Australia Remember When

The Thinking Woman

Julienne van Loon

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

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.'

The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean

Edited by Peter Burness

A Certain Style

Jacqueline Kent

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

Dr Peter Monteath

The never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck.

A Führer for a Father

'I was written out of the family story. This book is my attempt to write myself, and my mother, back into it.'

The Tempest-Tossed Church: Being a Catholic today

The Tempest-Tossed Church: Being a Catholic today

Gerard Windsor

In The Tempest-Tossed Church

'Professor Bill Gibson is an outstanding man, a great humanitarian and deserving of this well-researched biography about his exceptional contribution to medicine.' - Professor Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO

A Tear in the Soul

Ms Amanda Webster

'The heartfelt story of a woman's fierce determination to bear witness to the wrongs inflicted upon her childhood friends, purely because of their skin colour. With searingly honest self-reflection, Webster pieces together stories of families and lives brutally ripped apart.' - Leah Kaminsky

Not Just For this Life

Edited by Wendy Guest, Gary Gray

Not Just For This Life Not Just For This Life also includes a foreword by Graham Freudenberg and short introductions by Laurie Oakes, Anita Heiss, Geraldine Doogue, Don Watson, Patricia Hewitt, Nick Whitlam and Tim Soutphommasane where they tell their stories of the period following Gough's death and their experiences with Gough.

The Worst Woman in Sydney

Matriarch of the criminal underworld … or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney?

Whole Wild World

In this exuberant and compelling memoir of family and childhood, readers will be swept away by Tom Dusevic's verve, warmth and honesty.

Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo

You can listen to Rob Kaldor interview Ian Harris for the Co-op podcast .

Letters to my Grandchildren

Being a carer is not unlike being an interpreter. The task is to listen intently, to catch not only the words but the spirit of the message, and then to immediately pass that on. So too the carer, who is required to listen, to catch the spirit of what is needed, and then to set about to have those needs met.

Anne Henderson

In the months following his resignation as PM in late August 1941, Menzies swayed between relief at his release from the burdens of office as PM and despair that his life at the top had come to so little.

Tony Abbott thinks that Rupert Murdoch is one of the most influential Australians of all time and that we should support our 'hometown hero'. Murdoch, who has mainly lived in New York since 1973 and renounced his Australian citizenship in order to move into American TV, has aroused much more controversy than most hometown heroes.

Australian painter and theatre artist Loudon Sainthill and his partner, entrepreneur and gallery director Harry Tatlock Miller, were at the heart of avant-garde artistic and literary circles in mid-twentieth century Melbourne, Sydney and London.

The Beethoven Obsession

The Beethoven Obsession tells the story of how the greatest piano music ever written acquired a unique Australian voice, played on a revolutionary grand piano that shook up the conservative music establishment.

Playground Duty

In the baking heat of February 1973, wearing a purple nylon bodyshirt and an expression of confidence that belied his nerves, Ned Manning faced down a classroom full of kids in Tenterfield in remote NSW

Come the Revolution

Alex Mitchell

In Come the Revolution Come the Revolution lays bare Mitchell's life and loves, his past and politics, with the flair of a born storyteller unafraid to ask hard questions about the world, and himself.

The Exotic Rissole

'I put some rissoles in sandwiches for you two. Dig in.' Lynchy grabbed two and handed me one. We bit into them while sipping our SodaStream-manufactured soft drink. A rush came over me as I tasted the spice-free rissole bursting across my taste buds. It was worth the wait.

Gurindji Journey: A Japanese historian in the outback

After immersing himself in the culture of a remote Australian Indigenous community for close to a year, the young Japanese scholar Minoru Hokari emerged with a new world view.

Mahabharata In Polyester

Hamish McDonald

Military history

9781761170287

Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family

Fixing its gaze on moments, places and objects – from the streets of Bethlehem to the Palestinian neighbourhoods of the New Jerusalem – Find me at the Jaffa Gate assembles a story of Palestinian diaspora, returning to the origins of violence in the Nakba.

9781742238029

Uprising: War in the colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844

The award-winning author of The Sydney Wars reveals the breadth of frontier resistance warfare

9781761170027

Gull Force: Australian POWs on Ambon and Hainan, 1941–45

Acclaimed historian Joan Beaumont tells the story of Gull Force, the soldiers who were held as prisoners of war by the Japanese on Ambon and Hainan during the Second World War.

9781761170201

Great at Heart: Gavin Merrick Long, Australia’s official Second World War historian

Great at Heart is the first life story of war correspondent, editor and principal author of the official history of the Second World War, Gavin Long.

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.

9781761170140

Beyond The Broken Years: Australian military history in 1000 books

Leading historian Peter Stanley traces the history of Australia’s military history in 1000 books that reveal the many facets of our continuing fascination with our military past.

9781761170317

Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm New edition

An award-winning and landmark joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia’s most respected historians.

9781761170065

Australia's Few and the Battle of Britain

Mrs Kristen Alexander

Jack Kennedy (Sydney), Stuart Walch (Hobart), Dick Glyde (Perth), Ken Holland (Sydney), Pat Hughes (Cooma and Sydney), Bill Millington (Adelaide), John Crossman (Newcastle) and Des Sheen (Canberra): eight Australian Spitfire and Hurricane pilots of the Battle of Britain. Only one survived.

9781742237879

Saving Lieutenant Kennedy

The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president.

The Chipilly Six: Unsung heroes of the Great War

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

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

John Blaxland, Clare Birgin

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

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

Anthony Cooper, with Thorsten Perl

The incredible story of five correspondents who put everything on the line to report on the Battle of Berlin.

9781742237497

Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers

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

9781742236230

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

Craig Stockings

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.

9781742237770

Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero, new edition

Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements

An epic story of resistance, suffering and survival. Tongerlongeter resurrects a once-in-a-generation leader all Australians can admire.

9781742237459

Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world

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.

9781742237787

Darwin Spitfires

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.

9781742237596

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.

9781742237633

Tom Frame reveals the background to the war crimes allegedly committed by Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2013.

9781742237398

Edith Blake’s War: The only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War

Krista Vane-Tempest

Derrick VC in his own words

Edited by Mark Johnston

Edited and annotated by Mark Johnston, one of Australia's leading authorities on World War II, this book provides unprecedented insights into the mind and the remarkable career of one of Australia's most decorated and renowned servicemen.

Failures of Command

The Long Shadow

Battle on 42nd Street

Dr Peter Monteath

At what point does the will to survive on the battlefield give way to bloodlust?

Edited by Carolyn Holbrook, Keir Reeves

' The Great War: Aftermath and commemoration is a tour de force

Addressing Modern Slavery

Dr Justine Nolan, Dr Martijn Boersma

An estimated 40 million people are modern-day slaves, more than ever before in human history.

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

Aaron Pegram, Craig Blanch

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

The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean

Edited by Peter Burness

This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited

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

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

An Australian Band of Brothers

This riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II.

The Battle Within

Christina Twomey

Head-aches. Dizziness. Can't sleep. Bad dreams (never have been released). The rice jungle had some compensation to some of us who just don't seem to make a success of our return — ROBERT, A RETURNED POW

Dr Peter Monteath

The never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck.

Ethics Under Fire

Edited by Tom Frame, Mr Albert Palazzo

Events at Abu Ghraib prison and the 1968 My Lai Massacre show that the behaviour of the military can descend into barbarism. How strong is the military's commitment to avoiding such atrocities? Ethics Under Fire – a timely and compelling book – asks questions and raises issues the Australian Army can't ignore.

Australia's official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australia's first official war historian and the driving force behind the creation of the Australian War Memorial. Famously criticised for his deliberate myth-making as editor of The Anzac Book

Edited by Craig Stockings, John Connor

Australian military history is full of heroes – big names that loom large in the public memory of the nation's wartime experiences, like Monash, Chauvel, Jacka and Blamey.

Edited by Tom Frame

Helping neighbours and partners stabilise their political systems and work towards peace and security is a core activity for the modern Australian Defence Force.

Kampong Australia

Mathew Radcliffe

The Royal Australian Air Force base at Butterworth was Australia's largest and most enduring overseas military garrison in post-war Southeast Asia.

Valiant for Truth

Mr Peter Brune, Neil McDonald

Following the war he continued reporting and broadcasting, and published The Struggle for Europe , his classic account of the Normandy invasion and its aftermath. He was tragically killed in the crash of the BOAC Comet over Greece in 1954, returning from Australia where he had been covering the Royal Tour.

Tom Frame, Mr Albert Palazzo

No-one in the Australian government or Army could have predicted that in the 25 years following the end of the Cold War Army personnel would be deployed to Rwanda, Cambodia, Somalia, Bougainville, East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Solomon Islands. In a constructive critique of the modern Australian Army, 'On Ops'

Not Just For this Life

Edited by Wendy Guest, Gary Gray

Not Just For This Life Not Just For This Life also includes a foreword by Graham Freudenberg and short introductions by Laurie Oakes, Anita Heiss, Geraldine Doogue, Don Watson, Patricia Hewitt, Nick Whitlam and Tim Soutphommasane where they tell their stories of the period following Gough's death and their experiences with Gough.

The Worst Woman in Sydney

Matriarch of the criminal underworld … or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney?

Armenia, Australia & the Great War

Peter Stanley, Vicken Babkenian

Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide.

Unnecessary Wars

'Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.'

Who Bombed the Hilton?

I unpick and put in chronological order thousands of pieces of paper — lay out the facts as they arrived the first time, unadorned, uninterpreted, flying in from dozens of sources and every corner of the world.

Edited by Tom Frame

This collection of essays from ex-soldiers, military historians, chaplains and psychologists examines the unseen wounds sustained by Australians deployed to armed conflict, peacekeeping missions, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Australian Women War Reporters

Jeannine Baker

Why do Australians know the names of Charles Bean, Alan Moorehead and Chester Wilmot, but not Agnes Macready, Anne Matheson and Lorraine Stumm?

Key Concepts in Military Ethics

Edited by Dr Deane-Peter Baker

Can war be morally justified? What is the philosophy behind armed conflict? How do you conduct an ethical war? And what guides military action as the nature of conflict changes over time?

What Did You Do in the Cold War Daddy?

Edited by Ann Curthoys, Joy Damousi

Anne Henderson

In the months following his resignation as PM in late August 1941, Menzies swayed between relief at his release from the burdens of office as PM and despair that his life at the top had come to so little.

Kokoda Air Strikes

Anthony Cooper

The author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played – or failed to play – in crucial World War II campaigns in New Guinea.

Lost Boys of Anzac

Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But do we know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war?

Zombie Myths of Australian Military History

Edited by Craig Stockings

What's wrong with ANZAC?

What's wrong with ANZAC?

Marilyn Lake, Henry Reynolds, Joy Damousi, Mark Mckenna

Sorry, lads, but the order is to go

David W. Cameron

Bean's Official History Volume II (1924) to describe in detail a failed offensive in which bodies were shattered and lives senselessly lost.