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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Sharon Huebner, Ezzard Flowers
Kia Kia, Noogiting Wirren, Minang Yorga, Minang Boodja.
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Clare Birgin, John Blaxland
This unofficial account of Australian Signals intelligence reveals the organisation's efforts to reveal the secrets of others.
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Paul Humphries
The Life and Times of the Murray Cod draws on historical, anecdotal and scientific sources to reveal what makes this remarkable species so special, and will appeal to fishers, natural…
Campbell Wilson
Technology described as artificial intelligence is becoming more pervasive, with AI algorithms transforming science and industry, along with our everyday lives. They can rapidly analyse and classify all manner of…
Ian Lowe
In 1996, the first independent national report on the state of Australia’s environment found that we faced serious problems. With increasing urgency, five subsequent reports declared those problems were all…
Sally Young
In 1941, the paper emperors of the Australian newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years, they grew into media monsters.
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Marcia Langton, Aaron Corn
Law is culture, and culture is law. Given by the ancestors and cultivated over millennia, Indigenous law defines what it is to be human. Complex and evolving, law holds the…
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Om Dunghel, James Button
Written with Walkley Award-winning journalist James Button, Bhutan to Blacktown tells of Om Dhungel's remarkable journey from a village on the Himalayan ridges and life as a refugee in Kathmandu…
Renee Pettitt-Schipp
A travel narrative, a memoir and a thought-provoking look at Australia's complicated history with Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the asylum seekers detained there.
Five years after first living…
Ross McMullin
Life So Full of Promise, his second multi-biography about Australia’s lost generation of World War I, features a collection of interwoven stories set in that defining era.
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Jamie Callister
Published to coincide with Vegemite's 100th anniversary, the fascinating true story of the man who invented Australia's most enduring cultural icon, fully revised and updated.
Fiona Carruthers
A beautifully illustrated history of an iconic Australian object - the stock saddle
When Clancy rode down the Cooper, Ned Kelly went on the run and Hugh Jackman’s Drover headed…
Patrick Lindsay
A damning portrayal of the neglect of Australia's modern war veterans from celebrated military historian Patrick Lindsay.
Michelle Arrow (ed.)
The Whitlam government transformed Australia. And yet the scope and scale of the reforms for Australian women are often overlooked. Women and Whitlam brings together three generations to revisit the…
Victor Briggs
'For various reasons, this story cannot be proven. But that does not matter to me because in my Aboriginal way of being and knowing, stories like my uncle’s do not…
Thomas H Ford, Justin Clemens
What does the first poetry in Australia, written by the Judge who declared the land terra nullius, tell us about the singular nature of colonialism here?
Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven's first work of nonfiction, Personal Score, is a ground-breaking look at sport on this continent from a First Nations and queer perspective.
Saul Griffith
A compelling vision of green energy at a local level
David Dufty
Alan Turing saved millions of lives. But Bletchley Park wasn't the only major code-breaking operation during World War II. Down under, there was Central Bureau.
Central Bureau - Australia's own…
Alison Pennington
This book sets out a new deal for young Australians to rebuild hope, opportunity and jobs.
Anne Scrimgeour
In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia's Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour from the economically important wool industry to demand improvements in wages and conditions. Their…
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Bronwyn Carlson, Terri Farrelly
What is the place of Australia's colonial memorials in today's society? Do we remove, destroy or amend? Monumental Disruptions investigates how these memorials have been viewed, and are viewed, by…
Ahona Guha
A groundbreaking book that will broaden and expand your thinking, whether you are a trauma survivor, a clinician, someone who loves a survivor, or someone seeking to understand abuse.
Jane Carey
Taking to the Field is the first comprehensive history of Australian women in science from the colonial period to contemporary times.
Michael Wesley
History, geopolitics, blood feuds and the ingredients of a successful Australian armed intervention.
Sasha Sarago
'I laughed, shed tears and felt those goosebumps when you know your soul is being spoken to and nourished.' Chelsea Watego
'If you've ever dimmed your light, hated how you…
Shireen Morris, Damien Freeman (eds)
A collection of passionate essays from religious leaders arguing for a First Nations Voice to be enshrined in the Australian Constitution
Judy Ryan
'If not us, who? If not now, when?' You Talk, We Die is a highly personalised account of inner-city residents uniting in desperation to change their state government's response to…
Stuart Kells
Inside Australia's most venerable book publishing house
Alison Pouliot
What can we learn from the lives of fungi? Underground Lovers brings us to our knees, magnifier in hand, to find out.
Ngarukuruwala Women's Group
A beautiful book that brings many lifetimes of sung Tiwi knowledge to the page for the first time.
Penny van Oosterzee
A sweeping account of Australia's wet tropical rainforest country, from deep time to the legendary time of Australia's first peoples; from the killing times and maniacal destruction of the forests…
Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, Jakelin Troy (eds)
Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history.
Chris Wallace
Offers an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics. Chris Wallace reflects on the roles and motives of biographers and their biographies in the 20th century. The result…
Carody Culver, Ashley Hay
Food is more than a matter of taste. From the comfort of the kitchen to the theatre of the restaurant, the glamour of the TV studio to the gloss of…
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Hayley Singer
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?
Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow
A call to action for the creative class and labour movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media
Rohan Lloyd
An original and potent social history of the Great Barrier Reef
Simon Holmes a Court
This is the story of how a team of inspired young tech-heads and older sages used their real and virtual-world experience to help a cluster of communities get the representation…
Ben Schneiders
A startling investigation of how some of Australia’s best-known companies have abused their power to systematically underpay their workers in recent years.
Geraldine Brooks
A gift of an essay that illuminates the literary talents of two of Australia’s greatest writers.
Patricia Clarke
Patricia Clarke recounts the chequered journey of women journalists in the fight for gender equality from 1860 to the end of World War II.
Meg Foster
Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt and their bushranging brothers are famous. They’re remembered as folk heroes and celebrated for their bravery and their ridicule of…
Clinton Fernandes
How does Australia operate in the world? And why? In this closely evidenced, original account, former Australian Army intelligence analyst Clinton Fernandes categorically debunks Australia’s greatest myth: that of its…
Tim Dunlop
Voices of Us tells the inspiring story of the transformation of Australian democracy.
Louis Nowra
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…
The Chaser
When the pandemic hit Australia, and Victoria in particular, a then-unknown blog called The Shot emerged through the haze as a voice of reason, comfort, hope and swear words.
Brett Mason
Two Australian scientists played a vital yet largely unknown role in the Allied victory in the Second World War. Almost eight decades later, Wizards of Oz finally tells their story.
