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9781761170706

Challenging Anzac: Stories that don’t fit the legend

Edited by Mia Martin Hobbs, Carolyn Holbrook, Joan Beaumont

The Anzac legend has shaped Australia’s national identity for more than a century – yet many Australians’ experiences of war do not fit comfortably within this mythic narrative.

9781761170522

Gold Standard?: Remembering the Hawke government

Edited by Frank Bongiorno, Carolyn Holbrook, Joshua Black

A stellar lineup of historians, social scientists, politicians and journalists sheds valuable new light on the policies, politics and personalities of the Hawke Government.

9781761170263

Quiet Protest: A new history of activism during the Vietnam War

Effie Karageorgos

A new history of protest told through the quiet activism of everyday Australians.

9781761170379

The House of Blue Glass

Acclaimed historian Alan Atkinson pieces together the life of Penelope Lucas, the first professionally qualified woman to emigrate from Europe to Australia.

9781761170713

The Library That Made Me: 200 years of the State Library of NSW

Edited by Richard Neville, Phillipa McGuinness

A love letter to libraries everywhere.

9781761170737

The First Albanese Government: Governing in an age of disruption and division, 2022–2025

Edited by Michelle Grattan, John Halligan, John Hawkins

Australia’s leading voices on politics and policy examine the first Albanese Government from 2022 to 2025.

9781761170553

PIX: The Magazine that told Australia's Story

The magazine that shocked, entertained and informed Australians like never before is celebrated in a new book.

9781761170119

Looking from the North: Australian history from the top down

Acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds turns Australian history on its axis in a ground-breaking exploration of how colonisation north of the Tropic of Capricorn was very different to the southern states.

9781761170508

The Best Australian Science Writing 2025

Edited by Zoe Kean, Tegan Taylor, foreword by Veena Sahajwalla

This much-loved anthology – now in its fifteenth year – selects the most riveting, entertaining, poignant and fascinating stories from Australian writers, poets and scientists.

9781761170362

Australian Heroes of World War II: Remarkable stories of battlefield courage

Leading military historian Mark Johnston tells stories of the courage of individual soldiers across every battle in which Australians fought in World War II.

9781761170102

Unfinished Revolution: The feminist fightback

Virginia Haussegger

Unfinished Revolution is a clarion call to reignite revolutionary feminist action.

9781742238043

Newcastle: The Lives and Times of a City

Newcastle finds itself on shifting ground. But it's not an earthquake, or subsidence due to an old mine. It's perception that's shifting.

9781742237930

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.

9781761170621

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.

9781761170300

Deep History: Country and Sovereignty

Edited by Ann McGrath, Jackie Huggins

In Deep History: Country and Sovereignty, edited by Jackie Huggins and Ann McGrath, leading historians and thinkers explore the First Nations histories of caring for places and people over millennia.

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.

9781742238036

Yirranma Place: Stories of a Darlinghurst corner

Gadigal country, Woolloomooloo Farm, Riley Estate, Burdekin’s paddock, Burlington Picture Palace, First Church of Christ Scientist, party mansion, Yirranma Place – the many transformations of 262 Liverpool Street Darlinghurst reflect the long and layered history of Sydney.

9781761170331

Remember When … Snapshots of Australia from the ’50s to the ’90s

Remember When … Snapshots of Australia from the ’50s to ’90s is a photographic trip down memory lane, celebrating the people, places, events and experiences that shaped our nation in the second half of the 20th century.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

9781742237985

People Power: How Australian referendums are lost and won new edition

David Hume, George Williams

In the only full history of constitutional change in Australia, George Williams and David Hume examine Australia’s referendum record, why success has been so rare and how we can change this.

9781761170034

Critical Care: Nurses on the frontline of Australia's AIDS crisis

Critical Care paints a vivid and nuanced picture of HIV and AIDS nursing and sheds light on an unexamined aspect of Australia’s AIDS crisis.

9781761170096

John Busst: Bohemian artist and saviour of reef and rainforest

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

9781742238210

A Little History of the Australian Labor Party new edition

Frank Bongiorno, Nick Dyrenfurth

A little book about the big history of one of Australia’s most important institutions

9781742238180

Hazzard and Harrower: The letters

Edited by Brigitta Olubas, Susan Wyndham

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

9781742237657

My Darlinghurst

Edited by Anna Clark, Tamson Pietsch, Gabrielle Kemmis

Leading historians, writers and residents explore the unique and the everyday of Darlinghurst, contemplating its place in Gadigal, Sydney and Australian history.

9781742237879

Saving Lieutenant Kennedy

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

9781742237589

Rogue Corporations: Inside Australia’s biggest business scandals

Quentin Beresford

Award-winning author Quentin Beresford investigates Australia’s corporate Australia’s highest-profile scandals.