Australian non-fiction 2019

Forgotten Corners: Essays in Search of an Island’s Soul
This collection of essays by Tasmanian writer and environmentalist Pete Hay collects his essays published since 2003. They follow on from his previous essay collection, 'Vandiemonian Essays' (Walleah Press, 2002).
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The Strayan Dictionary
The most un-un-Australian dictionary ever created, The Strayan Dictionary is your indispensable guide to the native tongue of Warnie, Hawkie, Dame Nellie, Kylie (Minogue and Mole), Little Johnny, Barty and of course Boonie.
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Inner Worlds Outer Spaces: The Working Lives of Others
Intimate portraits of people who love what they do
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Superpower: Australia’s Low-Carbon Opportunity
We have unparalleled renewable energy resources. We also have the necessary scientific skills. Australia could be the natural home for an increasing proportion of global industry. But how do we make it happen?
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Quarterly Essay 76: Red Flag - Waking Up to China’s Challenge
China has become a key nation for Australia's future - for our security, economy and identity. But what are China's intentions and strategy when it comes to Australia?
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The Conversation Yearbook 2019
A little bit of authority goes a long way in an opinionated world. Here Australia's most erudite thinkers share expert views on the issues that shaped the nation in 2019. The Conversation Yearbook has become an annual bestselling...
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Fascists Among Us: Online Hate and the Christchurch Massacre
The first book since Christchurch to trace the massacre's fascist roots and what it represents.
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The Surprise Party: How the Coalition Went from Chaos to Comeback
In this gripping behind-the-scenes account, acclaimed journalist Aaron Patrick examines how the Coalition came back from the brink, and what that means for Australia.
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Nothing New: A History of Second-hand
Robyn Annear lends her signature wit to this fantastic history of second-hand: from the origins of the op shop to eBay, up-cycling and how new became normal.
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Beauty
In Beauty Bri Lee explores our obsession with thinness and asks how an intrinsically unattainable standard of physical 'perfection' has become so crucial to so many
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Mallee Country: Land, People, History
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present
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Life: Selected Writings
Essays, speeches and collective musings from one of Australia's greatest minds. From climate change to art, books, and the environment, there is something here for every Flannery fan.
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Curious: Life hacks through maths
Fast and fun maths solutions to everyday dilemmas by Lily Serna, mathematician and star of Catalyst, and Letters and Numbers.
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Macquarie
A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history.
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The Lost Boys
A unique perspective on the First World War, The Lost Boys is military history made deeply personal, a powerful homage to youthful bravery and a poignant reminder of the sacrifice of war.
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The Best Australian Science Writing 2019
This ninth edition of The Best Australian Science Writing showcases the most powerful, colourful, insightful and brilliant news, feature, essay and poetry writing from Australian writers and scientists. It roams the length and...
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George Seddon: Selected Writings
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Buckley’s Chance
The greatest Australian story never told - until now.
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Nurturing Your New Life
Many people know Heidi from her blog Apples Under My Bed and Instagram account @heidiapples. Her beautiful words and special focus here on nourishment - with special new-life recipes - will help mothers - and fathers - nurture...
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Cosmic Chronicles: A User’s Guide to the Universe
In Cosmic Chronicles, Fred Watson - Australia's Astronomer-at-Large and bestselling author - explores the hottest topics in space science and astronomy.
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This is What a Feminist Looks Like
In this passionate and timely account, Emily Maguire charts a course through the history of Australian feminism - from the First Wave to the Fourth, from suffragists to Riot Grrrls, from equal pay to #metoo.
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Finding the Heart of the Nation
An important and unique book that takes us into the lives of Indigenous people today, and offers constructive ideas about how we can live together, moving beyond the injustices of the past.
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Beyond the Bump
Beyond the Bump is a thoughtful and practical guide that aims to help new mums feel calm, confident and equipped to face the physical, emotional and mental hurdles they may encounter post birth.
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Fallen
The dramatic story of the trial of 'God's treasurer' for child sex abuse, and the conviction that sent ripples around the world.
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Fixed It
Violence and the representation of women in the media.
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Dogs in Space: A Film Archive
Dogs in Space - The Diaries presents for the first time the candid (and entertaining) 'shoot diary', kept by Lowenstein over the course of conceiving, funding and making the film between 1984 and 1987
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White Tears, Brown Scars
White Tears/Brown Scars blows open the inconvenient truth that when it comes to race, white entitlement is too often masked by victimhood.
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Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World
What happens when global systems are viewed from an Indigenous perspective? How does it affect the way we see history, money, power and learning? Could it change the world?
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Tough Customer: Chasing a Better Deal for Battlers
Allan Fels has never been one to shy away from a fight, whether it is taking on the big end of town, transforming cartels or challenging low paid workers being ripped off. In this book he opens up about his daughter's...
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Project Rainfall: The Secret History of Pine Gap
At the height of the Cold War the chief of one of Australia's spy agencies joined three CIA men at a remote site in Central Australia to toast the success of a top secret project known in US intelligence circles...
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Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella
Jack Charles has worn many hats throughout his life: actor, cat burglar, musician, heroin addict, activist, even Senior Victorian Australian of the Year. But the title he's most proud to claim is that of Aboriginal Elder.
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The Golden Country: Australia’s Changing Identity
A topical and provocative exploration of Australian identity by Federal MP and author Tim Watts.
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Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia: Second Edition
The second edition of the bestselling Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia, a unique tool for exploring and understanding the lives and cultures of Australia's First Peoples.
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Secret: The Making of Australia’s Security State
Brian Toohey draws on decades of inquiries into national security to examine governing by stealth.
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Cranlana: The First 100 Years
This lavish production is a breathtakingly designed and illustrated celebration of Cranlana, the original Australian home of the late Sidney Myer and since then, a place of some prominence in the commercial, architectural and...
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Banking Bad
How corporate greed broke our trust and failed Australia.
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When You’re Not OK: A Toolkit for Tough Times
When You're Not OK is an emotional first-aid kit for your body, mind, and soul, written by someone who's been there too.
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The Last Bushrangers
The story of Australia's last bushranging gang - the murderous Kenniff gang
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Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia
An evocative and gracefully written reflection on cultural encounters between Aboriginals and Indians in the Outback, from the nineteenth century.
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Sludge: Disaster on Victoria’s Goldfields
Everyone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know gold mining was disastrous for the land, drowning it in floods of sand, gravel and silt that gushed out of the mines? Or that this environmental devastation still affects...
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Venom
A cracking account of the rivalries and hatreds that split the Liberal Party, brought down Malcolm Turnbull and propelled Scott Morrison to power.
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Church of the Open Sky
Tall tales from the surf.
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The Wooleen Way
A remarkable memoir detailing a heroic and unswerving commitment to renew the severely degraded land on Wooleen, a massive pastoral property in Western Australia's southern rangelands.
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The Crow Eaters: A Journey Through South Australia
Outsiders think of South Australia as being different, without really knowing much about it. Combining his own travel across the million-square kilometres of the state with an investigation of its history, Ben Stubbs seeks to find...
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Inside the Greens
A revelatory examination of the history and future of the Australian Greens
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Underwater Sydney
Celebrates Sydney's harbour and coast through eclectic stories and underwater photography.
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James Hardy Vaux’s 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang
From the award-winning author and illustrator Simon Barnard comes an embellished version of Australia's first ever dictionary, published on its 200-year anniversary
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Colony
This is an essential exploration of Australia's complex colonial mindset: from the tragedies of a contested beginning to the conversations that allow us now to contemplate a better future.
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The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat
A surprising and absorbing new work of scientific, historical and environmental investigation, featuring one of Australia's most misunderstood native animals, the long-haired rat.
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Song Spirals: Sharing Women’s Wisdom of Country Through Songlines
Songspirals is a rare opportunity for outsiders to experience Aboriginal women's role in crying the songlines in a very authentic and direct form.
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Salt: Selected Stories and Essays
A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work.
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Growing Up Queer in Australia
Compiled by celebrated author and journalist Benjamin Law, Growing Up Queer in Australia assembles voices from across the spectrum of LGBTIQA+ identity.
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A Lot with a Little
In this evocative memoir, Tim Costello explores the people and experiences that have shaped him into a socially active fighter for the world's most challenging issues.
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On the Chin: A Boxing Education
The sporting memoir of an unlikely pugilist's attempt to take on Australia's amateur boxing circuit.
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The Father Hood: Inspiration for the New Dad Generation
It's official: Dads need a rebrand. The Father Hood celebrates the rapidly-growing tribe of hands-on dads who are discovering that fatherhood is the making of them.
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The Joy of High Places
They didn't know it, but Patti Miller and her brother, Barney, shared something in common - a passion for the illuminating joy of wild nature - with all its challenges and dangers. In this extraordinary book, Patti tells the story...
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Storytime
In Storytime, author and literary critic Jane Sullivan takes us from Wonderland to Narnia, Moomintroll to Mr Toad and from Winnie the Pooh to the Magic Pudding, to find out why her favourite childhood books were so vitally...
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Dear Dad
From the team who gave you the bestselling DEAR SANTA comes an honest, moving, emotionally memorable collection of letters to their fathers from some of Australia's most notable notables. The perfect gift for the dad in your...
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The Strong Man
A powerful story of life under fire and one man's journey back from the brink.
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Mad as Hell and Back
For old and new fans alike, this is the definitive collection of work from Australian comedy legend Shaun Micallef and his co-writer, Gary McCaffrie.
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The Art of Growing Up
A manifesto on all aspects of growing up - from parenting and education to the role of literature and imagination - by one of Australia's most passionate and experienced educators and bestselling authors.
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Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity
An anthology that aims to smash the stereotypes of Arabs in Australia that too often proliferate in mainstream media.
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Australian Foreign Affairs, Issue 6: Our Sphere of Influence: Rivalry in the Pacific
The sixth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines Australia's struggle to retain influence among its Pacific island neighbours as foreign powers play a greater role and as small nations brace for the...
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Major Thomas
Major Thomas had been a pillar of his community. He was a published poet, newspaper proprietor, lawyer and decorated soldier, but defending Breaker Morant became the defining episode of his life. For more than a century he has...
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A Wunch of Bankers
For Daniel Ziffer and his Australia-wide audience, it was a complicated, galling, and gasp-inducing year at the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry.
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Larrikins in Khaki
With a reputation for being hard to discipline, generosity to their comrades, frankness and sticking it up any sign of pomposity, Australian soldiers were a wild and irreverent lot, even in the worst of circumstances during World...
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The New Manhood: Love, Freedom, Spirit and the New Masculinity
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Australia’s Original Languages: An Introduction
An introduction to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait languages that explains their distinctive features accessibly for readers who have no previous experience with learning another language, and shows how language reflects...
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How to Defend Australia
A brilliant and important book about Australia's future
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Waste Not Everyday
All the tips, tricks and motivation you need to transition to a less wasteful life.
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Fake
A powerful, richly layered investigative story for our times, drawing on the personal stories of the author and other women who have been drawn into relationships based on duplicity and false hope.
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Travels in Atomic Sunshine
In February 1946, the Australians of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force moved into western Japan to 'demilitarise and democratise' the atom-bombed backwater of Hiroshima Prefecture. For over six years, up to 20,000...
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See What You Made Me Do
Combining exhaustive research with riveting storytelling, See What You Made Me Do dismantles the flawed logic of victim-blaming and challenges everything you thought you knew about domestic and family violence.
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Advancing Australia: Ideas for a Better Country
Politics in Australia is in a dire state. We have the diagnosis, but what's the cure? In this collection of essays, the country's best academic minds look at the key issues and chart a way forward.
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Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs
Everyone has the right to seek asylum under international law, but public discourse in Australia about refugees is dominated by scare-mongering and political point-scoring. Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong provide a wholly updated...
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Skywriting: Making Radio Waves
Skywriting: Making Radio Waves is at once the captivating story of contemporary Australian cultural life and a personal biography of an acclaimed `radio poet', whose signature radio features and documentaries on ABC...
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Sunburnt Country
What does climate change in Australia really look like?
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Breaking Badly
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A Fixed Place: The Long and Short of Story
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On Eating Meat
A scorching manifesto on the ethics of eating meat by the best placed person to write about it - farmer and chef Matthew Evans, aka The Gourmet Farmer.
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Bedlam at Botany Bay
What happened when people went mad in the fledgling colony of New South Wales? In this important new history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, we find out through the correspondence of tireless colonial...
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On David Malouf: Writers on Writers
Nam Le takes the reader on a thrilling intellectual ride in this sharp, bold essay
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Little One
A powerful story about family and adoption, and the tensions and joys between the old world of Europe and the new world of Australia.
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The Snowy: A History
The Snowy -- A History tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of the world's engineering marvels.
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Webtopia
The web was supposed to transform our world. So why are things so messed up?
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Intimate Antipathies
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Unconditional Love
A raw and powerful memoir of motherhood, autism and filmmaking by Australian director, Jocelyn Moorhouse
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Australia Day
As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away. There are the hard questions we ask of ourselves on Australia Day.
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On Father
A son's homage to his father.
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Blackout
Blackout charts the disintegration of Australia's energy security, calls out what is holding us back, and plots the way for a brighter future.
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Rebel Women Who Changed Australia
From Lillie Goodisson, pioneer of family planning, to Eileen Joyce, world-famous pianist, to Stella Miles Franklin, who endowed our most celebrated literary prize, these are women who have made a difference. They are the women who...
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#MeToo: Stories from the Australian movement
Movement. Moment. Backlash. Tide. Presenting the first anthology charting the #MeToo movement in Australia full of real women's stories and timely analysis.
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The People vs The Banks
The People vs The Banks reveals what happens when businesses put profit before punters, reward bad behaviour and assume they are beyond the law. The day of reckoning for liars and thieves in pin-striped suits has arrived.
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Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell (Updated Edition)
NEW REVELATIONS with new foreword by Tom Keneally.
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Silliness: A serious history
Silliness is to be savoured. It exposes the cracks in our reasoning, raising a gleeful 2-finger salute to convention and common sense. In a world awash with stupidity and cruel politics, silliness is childish, anarchic,...
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The Official Guide to the Election 2019: The Chaser Quarterly Issue 15
Move aside Antony Green. Get stuffed Chris Uhlmann. Think you know politics, Leigh Sales? With a Federal election due by May 2019, The Chaser provides a must-read guide to Australian politics, and how it works.
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Hell of a Time
One of the last undiscovered personal accounts of an Australian soldier fighting to survive WWI
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Growing Up African in Australia
Welcome to African Australia. Compiled by award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke, with curatorial assistance from writers Ahmed Yussuf and Magan Magan, this anthology brings together the regions of Africa, and the African...
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The Night Dragon
The Night Dragon is the fifth volume in Matthew Condon's chronicle of Queensland crime and corruption in the 20th Century.
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Nora Heysen: A Portrait
Extensively researched by the author, Nora Heysen: A Portrait is the first biography of the artist, and it has been enthusiastically embraced by the Heysen family.
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Women to the Front
Australian Women Doctors of the First World War
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A Spanner in the Works
From the end of the Great War and into the 1920s, Alice Anderson was considered nothing less than a national treasure.
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Australian Toys: A Collection
Australian Toys is an illustrated history of Australian manufactured toys from 1900-1965, drawing on the author's authoritative collection.
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Choice Words: A Collection of Writing about Abortion
Choice Words: A Collection of Writing About Abortion is a cri de coeur, a passionate appeal, from writers, thinkers, musicians, actors, comedians, activists and political staffers, offering personal stories of abortion alongside...
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Kosciuszko
The disappearance of two young skiers on Mount Kosciuszko in 1928 is the jumping-off point for a history of Australia between the wars, in Kosciuszko: A Search For Young Australia
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Witches: What Women Do Together
An exploration of the work women do together.
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Australia’s Sweetheart
This is the fascinating story of Mary Maguire, a 1930s Australian ingenue who sailed for Hollywood and a fabulous life, only to have her career cut short by scandal and tragedy. Packed with celebrity, history and gossip,...
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Say Hello
A forthright, honest and rousingly triumphant memoir from a woman who has to live with a highly visible different appearancedue to a rare skin condition. Say hello to Carly.
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Dr Space Junk vs The Universe
Turns the common perception of archaeology as an exploration of the ancient on its head. Alice Gorman's captivating inquiry into the most modern and daring of technologies spanning some 60 years takes the reader on a journey which...
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From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage
Lively and inspiring, From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage is a landmark account of the character of Australian democracy by the celebrated historian Judith Brett, the prize-winning biographer of Alfred Deakin.
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The Change Makers
Now more than ever we need leaders who can be strong yet humble, bold and assertive when it counts but have the capacity to listen and learn, who can motivate and influence, and who can get the best out of those around them....
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Talking Sideways
Talking Sideways is part history, part memoir and part cultural road-map. Together, Dodd and McKinnon reveal the unique history of this extraordinary place and share their concerns and their hopes for its future.
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Paper Emperors
Reveals who owned Australia's newspapers and how they used them to wield political power. A corporate and political history of Australian newspapers spanning 140 years, this book explains how Australia's media system came to be...
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Unlike the Heart: A Memoir of Brain and Mind
After the birth of her first child, Nicola Redhouse experiences an unrelenting anxiety that quickly overwhelms her. Her immense love for her child can't protect her from the dread that prevents her leaving the house, opening the...
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Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics
Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics is a case study in how some very determined people can change a political culture.
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Seven Big Australians: Adventures with Comic Actors
Anne Pender explores the lives and creative work of seven extraordinary performers who have brought joy and hilarity to generations of Australians through their memorable characters on stage and television, and in their potent...
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Kindred: A Cradle Mountain Love Story
Award-winning journalist Kate Legge tells the remarkable story behind the creation of the Cradle Mountain sanctuary through the characters at its heart.
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Accidental Feminists
Western women over fifty are a revolutionary generation. They are the first in history to have been in paid work for most of their lives. The power and freedom of this financial independence is unprecedented. But this financial...
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The Colonial Fantasy: Why White Australia Can’t Solve Black Problems
A call for a radical restructuring of the relationship between black and white Australia.
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This Young Monster
This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders .
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Teen Brain
From Australia's most trusted non-fiction researcher and author comes the book that every parent needs to read.
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The Seventies
The Seventies was the decade that shaped modern Australia. In a lively and engaging style, Michelle Arrow has written a new history of this transformative decade; one that is more urgent, and more resonant, than ever.
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Leading Lines
How to make speeches that seize the moment, advance your cause and lead the way.
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The Australian War Memorial
In this book Steve Gower, the highly successful director of the Australian War Memorial from 1996 to 2012, gives a comprehensive account of the development of the Memorial from its inception just over a century ago.
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Australia’s Vietnam: Myth vs history
Why everything you think you know about Australia's Vietnam War is wrong
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Death on the Derwent
Don't fool yourself that the innocent never go to jail.
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Breaking Point: The Future of Australian Cities
In this timely critique of our nation's urban development and planning culture, Peter Seamer argues that vested interests often distort rational thinking on our cities. Looking to the future, he sets out cogent new strategies to...
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Contesting Australian History
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The Land Before Avocado
The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Australia used to be - and just how far we have come.
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The Thinking Woman
A memoir combined with rigorous thinking and analysis, a book that prompts insightful questions about how we live. One of the age-old questions of philosophy is what does it mean to live a good life? In this extraordinary book,...
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The Revolution of Man
Journalist Phil Barker unpacks the myth of the 'Man Box' and Australian masculinity.
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On Hate
How is hate shaping our society? With the troubling rise of nationalist populism and the return of race politics, it's time to question the powers at play. On Hate is an urgent call for citizens to defend democracy against...
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Dead Right
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Growing Up Muslim in Australia
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LOVE!
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Waltzing Matilda: Australia’s Accidental Anthem
Waltzing Matilda Australia's Accidental Anthem written by a criminal barrister, is a forensic history of the events, the people and the places that led to the writing of Australia's internationally famous song. This...
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Australian Birds of Prey in Flight
Identify the eagles, hawks, kites and falcons flying high above you with this photographic guide.
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The Heart’s Ground: A Life Of Anne Elder
This finely wrought biography is rich in historical detail as it draws on four generations of letters and diaries and more recently on critical commentary and recollections.
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The Australian Students' Guide to Writing and Grammar
In this easy, fun-to-use guide, students, teachers and parents will discover how grammar, punctuation, spelling and well-made sentences make your writing great. With practical tips, interesting insights and step-by-step examples,...
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Imperfect
By turns illuminating, confronting and deeply personal, Imperfect challenges us all to consider how we exist in the world and how our bodies shape the people we become.
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Fridays with my Folks
Amal Awad's life changed when her father was diagnosed with kidney failure. It was a shock to see the impact it had on him, both physically and mentally, and the way the side effects trickled onto those around him. Work had always...
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Troll Hunting
Topical and gripping, Troll Hunting is an extraordinary first-person investigation of a disturbing new online reality that goes well beyond cyberbullying
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Capturing Nature
The ground-breaking scientific photographs of Australian Museum curator Gerard Krefft and taxidermist Henry Barnes are revealed in this volume for the first time. Capturing Nature reveals this fascinating visual archive for the...
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