Judith Wright (19152000) remains a giant figure within Australian art, culture and politics. Her 1946 collection of poetry, The Moving Image, revolutionised Australian poetry. She helped to establish the modern Australian environmental movement and was a...

"Dan Disney's highly original either, Orpheus remakes the villanelle. The'sound-swarms' in this contemporary 'orphic' work riff laterally on receivedpoetic and philosophical ideas and incorporate fascinating shreds of thinkingand saying. Rainer Maria...

"In this expansive and excitingcollection Hetherington moves with power and grace through an impressiverange of form and content. The poems burst with tense anddetailed images shot through with meditations on grief absence and...

"Rhythm and patternfollow with precision the rich tonality of Lucas's visual andaural perceptions delivered with just enough tension to allow aline to run free or a word to drop and hang alone where it dances or stops" Amanda...

Some plants have sustained empires and sparked wars. Some have ignited public outrage. Think tea, opium, tulips and thistles. Yes, thistles. In 1852 South Australia passed its Thistle Act, probably the first weed control legislation anywhere in the world...

We're travelling light, without excess, into our future. Gran had been rough as she uncurled my hands from their position, gripped around the open car doorframe, and shoved me into the passenger seat.A man returns from World...

It's a still, hot summer in Perth, only heat shimmying off the city's glass buildings, and not much to do but surrender to the cool of Beatty Park pools. The locals are out in full force: teenagers flirting, even the ragtag kids from the refuge.But...

This book charts the life and work of one of Australia's leading twentieth century human rights advocates. It recovers the efforts of Mary Bennett (1881-1961) to found a 'just relationship' between Aborigines and non-Aborigines in Australia from the late...

In Every Mother's Son is Guilty, Chris Owen provides a compelling account of policing in the Kimberley district from 1882, when police were established in the district, until 1905 when Dr. Walter Roth's controversial Royal Commission into the treatment...

The hours were demanding but the pay was good. And the boozy lunches were even better. Australia's advertising agencies enjoyed their reputation as a glamorous and fun place to work. Not surprisingly, many of the nation's brightest and most creative...

This is a pivotal story long overdue for the telling: how Aboriginal and European people interacted with each other following the British territorial invasion of 1826 for the next hundred years.There has always been a wealth of documentary and oral...

Randolph Stow was one of the great Australian writers of his generation. His novel To the Islands - written in his early twenties after living on a remote Aboriginal mission - won the Miles Franklin Award for 1958. In later life, after...

For nearly 200 years the visions and aspirations of the people of Australia's west have been characterised by an unquenchable thirst. Ruth Morgan uncovers the fear of running out of water - a fear that has long gripped the region's inhabitants and loomed...

In September 2013 just before the weatherturned even more intense a group of intrepid writers made their wayto three Australian desert settings to work with groups and individualswishing to write. Both Aboriginal people with a...

Abraham Nevski is a dedicated and eccentric professor of medicine at the Royal Prince John Hospital. He prides himself on his diagnostic skills and powers of reasoning. On returning to work after a break he becomes aware of disturbing changes taking...

Professor Sylvia J. Hallam FAHA has written a substantial Afterword to accompany a facsimile edition of her classic work from 1975, Fire and Hearth. In the light of considerable interest in this subject we are thrilled to release this work of...

Written from the late years of an extraordinary life, Ann Moyal's biography is a spirited narrative of her career as an eminent historian of Australian science and technology, her three marriages, travelling the globe, the people she has encountered, and...

Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book, Southeast Asia and South Pacific Region, Anthony Macris' highly-acclaimed debut novel Capital, Volume One takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through the...

In a rush of remembrance that seemed longer than my own life, I recognised that was who we are, that there was a term for it, for our family Aboriginal. At that point I began the long process of trying to understand what had happened that we had almost...

This collection of essays explores historical, geographical and cultural factors that contribute to our understanding of places and settings of Australian transient communities. From Gwalia and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, Charters Towers in...

This exquisite art book contains the precious story and transformative work of celebrated artists now living in an aged care facility in Ngaanyatjarra country, a remote and isolated community that is the centre of their abundant world amongst ancient...

You may not have heard much about the Southern Forests, but you've probably been eating fresh food grown in this region your whole life. Well-known Western Australian chef Sophie Zalokar (from the popular Foragers Field Kitchen & Cooking School in...

Left stranded in a tree by his wife, a Noongar man has to rely on his Wadjela friend to help him back down. Yira Boornak Nyininy is a story of forgiveness and friendship.This story comes from the wise and ancient language of the First People of the...

A man goes hunting for some tucker with a pack of dogs, but he doesn't get what he expected... Dwoort Baal Kaat is the story of how two different animals are related to one another.This story comes from the wise and ancient language of the First People...

With deep roots in the Kimberley region, Olive Knight shares her story of growing up with the Gooniyandi and Walmatjarri peoples of north-western Australia. As the daughter of a half-caste father, she was nearly killed on the day of her birth, as was...

Warren Braedon, named by his adoptive parents Louis St John Johnson, was taken from his mother in Alice Springs at just three months old. Told he had been abandoned, Louis's adoptive parents, Bill and Pauline Johnson raised him in a loving family in...

By turns funny and moving, konkretion stages a dialogue around the romance of the Baader-Meinhof gang's revolutionary aspirations. Ex-commo Monique Piquet (aka Monica Picket) meets up in Paris with her former student, Angel Beigesang, who has just...

Thirty-something Nick is walking down Parramatta Road's six lanes of thundering traffic to see his former girlfriend Penny for the first time since they agreed to be 'just friends'. By the novel's end, he is racing back up that same road so he doesn't...

Crimson Crop is Peter Rose's fifth poetry collection and his first since 2005. This volume has at its core a series of elegies, several about his late father Bob Rose (a respected Australian Rules footballer and coach), thus continuing the themes of his...

The revised edition of Reform and Resistance in Aboriginal Education takes a fresh look at the challenges and achievements that have occurred in this important area since the book's original release in 2003. Interest in Aboriginal education has increased...

After the phenomenal success of his first cookbook, Theo and Co: The Search for the Perfect Pizza (2008), World Pizza Champion Theo Kalogeracos takes to the road to continue his search for the perfect pizza - this time as far and wide as the USA. With...

To imagine that we confront Asia for the first time in the twenty-first century is to deny our history and the self-awareness that comes from understanding that we have been here before. Asia appears throughout modern Australian history as a source of...

Mamang was created as part of an Indigenous language recovery project led by Kim Scott and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project. From a creation story told to the American linguist Gerhardt Laves at Albany, Western Australia, around 1931 and...

Noongar Mambara Bakitj was created as part of an Indigenous language recovery project led by Kim Scott and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project. Inspired by a creation story told to the American linguist Gerhardt Laves at Albany, Western...

A dancer in a wheelchair. A collector of corks. One woman seduced by a mountain and another by Freddo Frogs. A man who hears his dead wife's voice. A poet whose voice has disappeared. A photographer distilling grief in his lens. A sound designer stealing...

Walter Murdoch, a popular broadcaster and public speaker, was one of Australia's bestselling twentieth-century authors. He published weekly essays in The Argus and other newspapers and his books sold in their tens of thousands. Complete with a Foreword...

Francis Webb (19251973) grew up in North Sydney with his paternal grandparents, who encouraged his love of music, books and the sea. In 1942, during his final year of secondary school, his writing first appeared in the Bulletin, which led to friendships...

Shakespeare's plays are permeable to the contexts in which they are performed: they take on and speak to local concerns. Ours As We Play It takes a close look at several contemporary Australian productions of three Shakespearean plays; exploring...

Build a calmer sleep routine with this adorable new book.Lilly May tries to count calming, soothing sheep to help her get to sleep, but Lilly May's sheep aren't the calmly kind. All 10 of them are up to no good and it takes a lot of finagling before all...

The third book in the Say series, this new board book comes from award-winning author Renae Hayward, and celebrates the wonderful world of baby bedtimes.Exploring all the things babies love to do as they get ready for bed - from bedtime stories to...

Award-winning author-illustrator James Foley releases an exciting new story about the divide between the Bigfoots and the Yetis, and their struggle to reconcile.The Bigfoots and the Yetis live on either side of the great rift. They have been fighting for...

The story of Robin Miller - the woman who single-handedly flew life-saving vaccines in her own plane to remote communites.Imagine flying solo, crisscrossing the north-west of Australia in your own plane, and single-handedly delivering life-saving...

Whether it's escaping boarding school, or buying hormones from the local speed dealer, Geraldine is open to all the world has to offer - even if the world doesn't quite know what to make of her.This is the story of a woman who changes the world that...