The award-winning author of The Sydney Wars reveals the breadth of frontier resistance warfare.
The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance ended in 1824 with a series of massacres conducted by settlers in the Bathurst region. From the 1830s, colonists began occupying more and more Aboriginal land across western New South Wales and stocking it with sheep and cattle. By 1838, a dramatic fightback began across the entire frontier of the colony. What has been called the Second Wiradyuri War of Resistance, from 1839 to 1841, in southern New South Wales near Narranderra was, in fact, part of a vast arc of conflict from present-day northern Victoria through to southeast Queensland. At the time, it was seen by many contemporaries as a concerted and coordinated ‘uprising’.
In Uprising, historian Stephen Gapps reveals the incredible story of this extensive frontier resistance warfare for the first time – a series of wars that were conducted along a huge area of the Murray-Darling river system, across many First Nations’ lands, in a concerted defence of River Country.
April 2025
Paperback
234 x 153 mm
336 pp $36.99
ISBN: 9781742238029
ebook: 9781742239125
ePDF: 9781761178351
Stephen Gapps is a senior historian at Artefact Heritage Services and a former curator at the Australian National Maritime Museum. He is the author of The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony 1788–1817 (NewSouth, 2018), the inaugural winner of the Les Carlyon Award for the writing of military history and Gudyarra: The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance — The Bathurst War, 1822–1824 (NewSouth, 2021).
Find me at the Jaffa Gate:
An encyclopedia of a Palestinian Family
Micaela Sahhar
‘What is the task but to find my way back to the unfragmentation of the world as we knew it; to collect the uncollected, to make the unmade. To refuse victimhood even when annihilation seems to insist on it. To make a thing out of nothing, to make a diaspora into something, real enough to share.’
What does the daughter of a Nakba survivor inherit? It is not property or tangible heirlooms, none of which can crisscross the globe with their refugee owners. It is not the streets and neighbourhoods of a father’s childhood and the deep roots of family who have lived in one place, Jerusalem, for generation upon generation.
Fixing her gaze on moments, places and objects –from the streets of Bethlehem to the Palestinian neighbourhoods of the New Jerusalem – Micaela Sahhar assembles a story of Palestinian diaspora, returning to the origins of violence in the Nakba. Find me at the Jaffa Gate is a book about the gaps and blank spaces that cannot be easily recounted, but which insists on the vibrant reality of chance, fragments and memory to reclaim a place called home.
May 2025
Paperback
210 x 135 mm
272 pp $34.99
ISBN: 9781761170287
ebook: 9781761179181
ePDF: 9781761178313
Micaela Sahhar is an Australian-Palestinian writer and educator. She holds a doctorate focusing on national narrative and media coverage during Israeli assaults on Palestine in the 21st century and is an Honorary Research Fellow at Murdoch University. Her essays, poetry and commentary have appeared in Meanjin, Sydney Review of Books, The Conversation, Overland and the Griffith Review among others. She is a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellow (2021).
The Power of Choice
Julian Kingma
An award-winning photographer asks, what constitutes a good death?
Photographer Julian Kingma has travelled the country to do something no-one has attempted before – document terminally ill Australians who choose a voluntary assisted death. With essays from Andrew Denton and Richard Flanagan, in Power of Choice he turns his camera on those who choose death – and those who help them on their final journey.
Kingma meets a remarkable range of people – the dying, their families and carers, and the dedicated health professionals who walk alongside them until the end, often in the face of disapproval from their colleagues. He captures their stories of hope, struggle, courage and acceptance in deeply personal portraits and photo essays.
Julian Kingma is an award-winning photographer whose work is regularly exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Many of his works feature in its permanent collection.
May 2025
Hardback
260 x 220 mm
176 pp
100 illustrations
$49.99
ISBN: 9781761170294
ePDF: 9781761178375
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.
Mass vaccination in Australia means that infections like diphtheria, tetanus, polio and measles, which caused thousands of deaths a year in the first half of the twentieth century, dropped to almost zero by the year 2000. Yet, while vaccination is arguably the greatest public health achievement in history, the disappearance of these diseases has also seen an increased focus on the side effects of vaccines and the rise of the anti-vax movement.
In Vaccine Nation, world-leading epidemiologist Raina MacIntyre examines the history of vaccines, how they work, vaccine safety, public policy, new technologies like mRNA and the effects of the COVID pandemic on vaccine disinformation and anti-vaccination sentiment. At a critical time, with vaccination rates falling globally and ground-breaking new vaccines being developed to fight cancer and other chronic diseases, MacIntyre argues that science must reclaim the stage, or we may lose the centuries of gains that vaccines have brought to the world.
May 2025
Paperback
210 x 135 mm
256 pp $34.99
ISBN: 9781761170058
ebook: 9781761179198
ePDF: 9781761178320
Raina MacIntyre is Professor of Global Biosecurity and NHMRC Research Fellow. She heads the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW. Her vaccine expertise is in older adults and immunosuppressed people, and she has done several clinical trials of vaccines in adults and transplant patients. She was on the WHO COVID-19 Vaccine Composition Technical Advisory Group from 2021–2024 and is on the WHO SAGE Smallpox and mpox advisory group. She is the author of Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity (NewSouth, 2022).
Inconvenient Women: Australian radical writers 1900–1970
Jacqueline Kent
A captivating account of women writers who set out to change the world.
Long before Germaine Greer and Anne Summers, Australia’s women writers were pouring their intense political beliefs into their work. Mary Gilmore was a trailblazing feminist journalist and labour movement organiser; Katharine Susannah Prichard wrote about the emotional conflicts inherent in European and Indigenous relationships and was a co-founder and lifelong member of the Communist Party; Eleanor Dark explored Australian colonisation and the First Nations peoples it displaced; Dymphna Cusack advocated for social reform and had strong links to labour politics; Ruth Park’s The Harp in the South inspired the NSW government’s slum clearance programs; Dorothy Hewett’s novel Bobbin Up was one of the few western works translated into Russian during the Soviet era; and prominent First Nations poet, artist, writer and educator Oodgeroo Noonuccal campaigned for Indigenous rights, including successful constitutional reform.
In Inconvenient Women, acclaimed biographer
May 2025
Paperback
234 x 153 mm
288 pp
$34.99
ISBN: 9781742237503
ebook: 9781761179051
ePDF: 9781761178245
Jacqueline Kent traces the social and political issues that inspired – and often hampered – these determined women and their desire to change the world.
Jacqueline Kent is a Sydney-based writer of non-fiction and biography, fiction, general articles and literary journalism. She is the author of the bestselling The Making of Julia Gillard and A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a literary life, winner of the 2002 National Biography Award. Her most recent book is Vida on women’s rights campaigner Vida Goldstein.
Honour’s Mimic Charmian Clift
Honour’s Mimic was Charmian Clift’s second novel, first published in 1963, republished here with a new afterword from her biographer, Nadia Wheatley.
Kathy is recovering on a remote Greek island. The 31-year-old Australian woman has left her publisher husband and two young sons back in England in order to come to the island where she plans to spend some months in the home of her sister-in-law, Milly, who has married a wealthy sponge trader. With her cropped red hair barely hiding a scar on her skull, her pale face and dash of lipstick on her wide mouth, she doesn’t fit in.
Then Kathy meets Fotis, a failed sponge diver whom no captain wants to recruit for the coming season. Meeting in a ruined Byzantine palace above the town, Fotis could not be a less suitable lover, yet Kathy sees a likeness between them.
June 2025
Paperback
210 x 135 mm
272 pp
$34.99
ISBN: 9781761170416
ebook: 9781761179075
ePDF: 9781761178368
Charmian Clift was born in the coastal town of Kiama, New South Wales, on 31 August 1923. After serving as a lieutenant in the Australian Army, she joined the staff of the Melbourne Argus newspaper, and in 1947 married fellow journalist George Johnston. The next year, the couple’s collaborative novel High Valley won the Sydney Morning Herald prize. Fleeing the political claustrophobia of Australia under the Menzies government, in 1952 Charmian and George headed to London. Two years later, they escaped even further, to the Greek islands, where over the next decade they raised three children and created a legend. During this period, Clift wrote the memoirs Mermaid Singing and Peel Me A Lotus, and her two novels, Honour’s Mimic and Walk to the Paradise Gardens. After the family returned to Australia in 1964, Charmian Clift began writing a weekly column that appeared in the Melbourne Herald and the Sydney Morning Herald. Charmian Clift died in 1969.
Land Back: Aboriginal land rights in New South Wales, today and always
Edited by Heidi Norman
Land Back tells the story of the work that has been done, and is yet to be done, to get land back.
Aboriginal land rights recognition in 1983 came after nearly 200 years of violent colonial dispossession and the near-complete loss of land. For over 40 years, NSW Aboriginal people have worked to restore their Country and people.
The Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 in NSW included unique features that remain unrealised in other parts of the country. The laws announced the policy of selfdetermination, compensation for loss, a land claims process, support for enterprises and the establishment of a network of land councils. Today, there are 120 land councils that operate across the state.
Yet significant features of the land rights promise remain outstanding. Less than 1 per cent of the state has been restituted to Aboriginal land councils, with tens of thousands of land claims yet to be determined.
Professor Heidi Norman, a leading expert on Aboriginal political history, has brought together voices at the forefront of the movement, including lawyers, NSW Aboriginal Land Council Youth Committee members, students, academics, activists and organisers, to share the successes, failures and possible futures of NSW land rights.
February 2025
Paperback
234 x 153 mm
368 pp $49.99
ISBN: 9781761170072
ebook: 9781742239040
ePDF: 9781761178016
Heidi Norman is a professor at UNSW and a leading researcher in the field of Australian Aboriginal political history. She has published widely on histories of Aboriginal land rights, Aboriginal participation in rugby league, studies of media representation, the history of Aboriginal working life in cities, and political history of Aboriginal affairs administration. Her family is from Gomeroi lands of northwestern NSW. She is the director of the Indigenous Land and Justice Research Group and has advised government and Aboriginal peak bodies. Most recently, she contributed to the development of the government’s First Nations Clean Energy Strategy.
‘I scanned the forest floor around me. I couldn’t yet see fungi, but I could smell them. Lowering my nose to the ground, I inhaled a distinctive fungal funk. I rolled over some bark and there they were! Gossamer threads of mycelia wended their way through the layers, weaving them together. Soon these furtive fungi would fashion their mycelia into mushrooms and heave their way through the earth.’
This book is about fungi, and the photography of fungi. The title – Funga Obscura – unites the two. Beginning in elemental landscapes of ice and rock, the book traces the evolutionary path of fungi as enablers of life on land, and creators of soils and forests. Crossing continents and ecosystems, we navigate lichen-covered landscapes, crawl in the fungal undergrowth, scale glacial extremes and duck between rainforest shadows.
Alison Pouliot, ecologist and environmental photographer, captures these remarkable lifeforms in this visual love letter to fungi.
Praise for Pouliot’s Underground Lovers:
‘Pouliot conveys the otherworldly charisma of mushrooms with love and skill.’ — The Sydney Morning Herald
fungi
Funga Obscura: A photo journey among
Alison Pouliot
March 2025
Hardcover
213 x 170 mm
192 pp
100 photographs
$49.99
ISBN: 9781761170126
ePDF: 9781761178337
‘[Pouliot makes a] convincing case … Fungi are essential to the world as we know it.’ — New York Review of Books
Alison Pouliot is an ecologist with a passion for fungi. Her journeys in search of fungi span the northern and southern hemispheres, ensuring two autumns and a double dose of fungi each year. As a scientist, photographer, author and someone who roams the forest daily, Alison explores fungi through multiple lenses. Alison is the author of Underground Lovers (NewSouth, 2023, published as Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms by Chicago University Press, 2023), The Allure of Fungi and co-author of Wild Mushrooming
Human/Nature:
On life in a wild world
Jane Rawson
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.
Everything we think about nature is deeply cultural. And much of what we imagine is based on outdated, irrelevant, or out-of-place beliefs. How are these ideas affecting the way we live in the world, and do we have any hope of changing them? If you’ve ever asked yourself whether humans are ruining nature, whether there’s a better way for us to belong, or whether it’s possible to love both the environment and your cat, you’re not alone. This exquisite, contemplative book is for anyone who has ever wondered where they fit in the natural world.
‘Idiosyncratic and wily, big-hearted and brave, Human/Nature is an exhilarating deep dive into what is deemed “nature”, what is worth saving, and who gets to decide. Part confessional, part philosophical inquiry, part lament, this book takes us on a rollicking ride.’ – Jessie Cole, author of Desire and Staying
April 2025
Paperback
210 x 135 mm
224 pp
$34.99
ISBN: 9781761170010
ebook: 9781761179211
ePDF: 9781761178344
Jane Rawson is the author of novels A History of Dreams, From the Wreck and A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists, a novella, Formaldehyde, and the non-fiction book The Handbook: Surviving & living with climate change. You can read her essays in Living with the Anthropocene; Fire, Flood, Plague; and Reading like an Australian Writer. She is the Managing Editor at Island magazine and lives in southeast Tasmania.
The Bee Squad: Boosting biodiversity in your neighbourhood
Judy Friedlander
Children around Australia are taking charge. Come and join the revolution!
From Dunsborough on the coast of Western Australia to Sydney’s suburbs, young people are discovering nature in their neighbourhoods and setting up nesting boxes for birds, cleaning up waterways, planting to attract bees and koalas, and building insect hotels. They’re learning about the amazing native species around them and finding ways to protect them.
The Bee Squad will inspire you to take part in these exciting adventures and projects that support threatened species by:
• learning how to put together a nature sleuth toolkit
• planting to attract pollinators
• using the tally sheet to record flora and fauna sightings
• following the tips to ace your wildlife photography
The best part is, you don’t need to live near a national park or protected area to get involved – you can make a difference from your balcony, backyard, local park or school.
February 2025
Paperback
215 x 153 mm
208 pp
Illustrated throughout $27.99
ISBN: 9781742238227
ebook: 9781761179020
ePDF: 9781761178122
Dr Judy Friedlander is the founder of PlantingSeeds Projects, an environmental organisation whose flagship program is the B&B Highway (Bed and Breakfasts for Bees, Birds and Biodiversity) that links hundreds of schools in four Australian states to form regenerative corridors. Judy is also a journalist and University of Technology Sydney Adjunct Fellow.
How to be a fantastic sensational good enough kid
Alice Peel
You don’t need to be fantastic or sensational, just good enough.
How to be a fantastic sensational good enough kid is the book children, parents and teachers have been waiting for. Alice Peel, co-founder of Grow Your Mind – a ground-breaking wellbeing program that helps children develop resilience – takes on the life skills and emotional dilemmas ‘good enough’ kids face every day. Packed with great advice on how to be mentally fit and resilient, how to deal with jealousy and other emotions, How to be a fantastic sensational good enough kid also includes ‘nonpainful’ ideas on practising gratitude, brain facts and inspiring stories. It’s the only guide you’ll ever need to be a good enough kid.
Alice Peel is a primary school teacher and cofounder of Grow Your Mind, a wellbeing program that helps children develop resilience and supports mental health and is used by 125 schools across Australia. Alice holds a Masters of International Public Health and a Graduate Diploma of Teaching and Learning.
‘This book is a game-changer for kids! ’ Dr Sarah McKay, Neuroscientist
April 2025 Paperback
190 x 150 mm
256 pp $29.99
ISBN: 9781761170188
ePDF: 9781761178252
Making Picture Books
Libby Gleeson
An essential guide to making picture books for writers and illustrators, from award-winning writer Libby Gleeson.
Making Picture Books is a guide for anyone who has ever wanted to write or illustrate a picture book. Award-winning children’s author Libby Gleeson will guide you from the first idea for a story, through the planning and writing, revision, editing, illustration, design and production, until there is a book in your hands.
Written from the point of view of a writer and illustrator, Making Picture Books shares decades of experience and is filled with examples and advice from Pamela Allen, Shaun Tan, Julie Vivas and many more.
Libby Gleeson AM is an Australian children’s author. Libby’s fiction and picture books have won multiple awards, including CBCA shortlistings and wins, the Bologna Ragazzi Award in 2000, and the Prime Minister’s Award in 2013. For her services to children’s literature, Libby has been honoured with the Lady Cutler Award (1997), Member of the Order of Australia (2007), the Dromkeen Medal (2011) and the Nan Chauncy Award (2015).
June 2025
Paperback
215 x 153 mm
128 pp
20 illustrations
Price: $22.99
ISBN: 9781742238159
ebook: 9781742239019
ePDF: 9781742239972
Gull Force: Australian POWs on Ambon and Hainan, 1941–45
Joan Beaumont
The members of the Australian battalion of Gull Force endured some of the harshest prisoner-ofwar conditions of any Australian during the Second World War.
In February 1942, on the remote island of Ambon in Indonesia, 1150 Australian soldiers were preparing for invasion by Japanese forces. Outnumbered and illequipped, theirs was an impossible mission.
After their defeat, over 200 Australians were massacred. The survivors faced three and a half years of harsh work, beatings, disease and starvation on Ambon and the Chinese island of Hainan. Along with the brutal conditions came a crisis of leadership, with Australian officers accused of devising their own systems of punishment. The prisoners of Ambon were tormented by two catastrophic raids by ‘friendly’ Allied air forces.
Over 800 men were captured; only 302 returned home.
Acclaimed historian of Australia’s wars, Joan Beaumont, tells the full story of this tragedy and its aftermath. An account of suffering, death, endurance and memory, the story of Gull Force is one that must not be forgotten.
April 2025
Paperback
210 x 135 mm
400 pp
20 illustrations
$39.99
ISBN: 9781761170027
ebook: 9781761179235
ePDF: 9781761178405
Joan Beaumont is Professor Emerita at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University. She is one of Australia’s preeminent scholars of Australian prisoners of war and is the author of Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War, the critically acclaimed account of Australia’s experience of the First World War, which was joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian History and winner of the NSW Premier’s Prize for Australian History. She is also the author of Australia’s Great Depression: How a nation shattered by the Great War survived the worst economic crisis it has ever faced and co-author with Allison Cadzow of Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship (NewSouth, 2018).
Great at Heart: Gavin Merrick Long, Australia’s official Second World War historian
Garry Hills
In Great at Heart, Gavin Long finally gets the biography he richly deserves.
While Charles Bean is the subject of several major biographies, this is the first life story of his acolyte, war correspondent and editor and principal author of the official history of the Second World War, Gavin Long.
In Great at Heart, Garry Hills traces Long’s career as a newspaper correspondent during the 1920s and as a defence correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald until the outbreak of war in 1939. The book covers Long’s experiences as a war correspondent attached to the British Expeditionary Force in Europe until the evacuation at Dunkirk in 1940 and then with the 2nd AIF in North Africa, the Middle East and Greece.
In 1941, when Charles Bean began advocating for an official history of the war then in progress, he was influential in having his protégé Long appointed General Editor – a role Long discharged with considerable dedication, courage and self-sacrifice between 1943 and 1963, overseeing the development of all 22 volumes and writing three of them himself.
Garry Hills is the President of the Queensland Air Museum. His passion for the preservation of history extends to a profound admiration for Gavin Long, whose dedication is evident in the legacy he gave the Australian people – the Official History of Australia in the War of 1939–1945
April 2025
Paperback
234 x 153 mm
192 pp
14 illustrations
$39.99
ISBN: 9781761170201
ebook: 9781761179242
ePDF: 9781761178412
Elizabeth Harrower wrote some of the most intense, original and highly regarded psychological fiction of the twentieth century. When she stopped writing abruptly in the 1970s, she became one of the most puzzling mysteries of Australian literature. In this first biography of Harrower, Susan Wyndham expertly pieces together the life of an elusive and intriguing subject and her literary world.
NewSouth, October 2025, Paperback, 210 x 135 mm, 288 pp, 16 illustrations, $34.99, ISBN: 9781761170195, ebook: 9781761179259, ePDF: 9781761178429
Darryl Jones spends time with bearded pigs in Borneo, rock ptarmigans in the Arctic, birdwatchers in Wagga and New York, and conservationist farmers in the Snowy Mountains as he explores how different people interact with wildlife, and how this affects their connection to nature.
NewSouth, September 2025, Paperback, 210 x 135 mm, 256 pp, $34.99, ISBN: 9781761170386, ebook: 9781761179273, ePDF: 9781761178443
Joy McCann, author of the critically acclaimed Wild Sea: A history of the Southern Ocean, explores Antarctica’s ice sheet, glaciers, ice shelves and sea ice, and human encounters in the polar regions, and asks how our fate is intimately tied to this remote region as the climate crisis disrupts its rhythms and ice coverage forever.
NewSouth, October 2025, Paperback, 210 x 135 mm, 240pp, 20 illustrations, $32.99, ISBN: 9781742237800, ebook: 9781761179266, ePDF: 9781761178436
Meet some of the world’s most dastardly creatures, who lie, cheat, and deceive for a living. To understand how these creatures swindle their way to the top, James O’Hanlon (author of Silk & Venom: The incredible lives of spiders) explores the science behind camouflage, mimicry and masquerade. Taking readers on a journey from up in the atmosphere to the darkness of deep ocean trenches, it explores how animals and plants use deception to avoid predators and lure in prey.
NewSouth, October 2025, Paperback, 210 x 135 mm, 256 pp, $32.99, ISBN: 9781761170171, ebook: 9781761179280, ePDF: 9781761178467
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