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HOW TO CONTROL FIRE ON A BURNING CONTINENT
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Timothy Neale Elements A critical and ethnographic exploration of wildfire management in Australia, one of Earth’s most fire-prone countries, Timothy Neale’s How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent critiques the colonial logics of control deployed to manage unruly environments and explores alternative forms of environmental stewardship. Each year, Australia faces increasingly unprecedented wildfires, marked both by their scale and by the intense public disagreements about their political, cultural, and ecological causes. How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent is a critical and ethnographic exploration of wildfire management in Australia and the technoscientific systems of control that shape its current and future possibilities. Timothy Neale observes how two seemingly opposing forces—an entrenched sense of crisis and widespread normalization—combine to form an apparatus of institutional fire management that increasingly centers technical control and militarization. While sympathetic to the double binds many fire management professionals find themselves in, Neale ties contemporary wildfire problems to ongoing colonization and Indigenous dispossession, exploring Indigenous-led land management and cultural burning as a practical assertion of sovereignty. Through dialogue and collaboration with professional fire managers and Indigenous environmental stewards, Neale calls for a collective movement beyond control thinking by fostering new alliances and modes of coping with, rather than commanding, our flammable world. 14 July 2026 | 262pp | 12 illus. 9781478038795 | £22.99 / $29.95 | PB 9781478033912 | £96.00 / | HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2
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MUSIC FROM ANOTHER SPECIES
MAKING DO
Hollis Taylor Considered by many to be the most accomplished songbird in Australia, the pied butcherbird is known for its ability to skillfully improvise new and complex melodies. Each one sings differently from the next; their nocturnal solo songs can span up to seven hours and are often combined with other calls to form an artistic ensemble; and since their songs change annually, these feathered choristers provide an endless bounty of complex musical phrases to transcribe. Music from Another Species is an exhaustive zoomusicological analysis of these avian vocalizations in relation to the minimalist music produced by humans. The culmination of over twenty years of listening, author Hollis Taylor has produced a veritable repertoire of birdsong with the notation of over 100 individual vocalizations. From comparisons of bird solos across geography to those at the same site but different times, the elegant variations across subspecies, and even duets and larger ensembles, the collected transcriptions allow readers to immerse themselves in these songs so replete with musicality and invention. Complete with online audio files, Music from Another Species opens the door for us to find the exuberance, timbral riches, chromatic flourishes, and abutting large leaps and sharp switchbacks of the pied butcherbird. 22 May 2026 | 312pp | 3 b&w photos, 1 map, 104 printed music items 9780253075840 | £64.00 / $80.00 | HB
Mardi Reardon-Smith Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been used for large scale cattle farming. It is also a place of global significance as the site of multiple environmentally protected bioregions, with ongoing efforts to recognize them as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Despite the very human role in shaping the landscape of Cape York, the region remains widely thought of as a "wilderness" to be conserved and protected. In this context, what counts as natural and native matters crucially—as does who gets to decide how species and people are categorized and, accordingly, how they are controlled. Making Do investigates complex ways in which people form, maintain, and transform relationships to changing environments. How do we know the places in which we live, and how do we care for them among the ruptures created by forces like climate change, settler colonialism, and structural inequalities? To address these questions, Mardi ReardonSmith traces issues such as the history of land tenure changes, the identification and control of weeds and feral pigs, and wildfires and Aboriginal cultural burning. Sprawling, messy, and sometimes violent, caring for land is not just about repair, restoration, or maintenance—rather, it is about bringing into being workable landscapes, livable worlds, and possible futures. 21 October 2025 | 264pp | 29 halftones 9781503644441 | £20.99 / $28.00 | PB 9781503643635 | £88.00 / | HB
Australian Birdsong Transcriptions
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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OCEANIA
ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY HARMS IN THE CITY A Green Criminological Analysis
Kajsa Lundberg Critical Issues in Crime and Society This book, based on ethnographic research in Melbourne, Australia, examines urban expansion and its harmful social and environmental impacts. It exposes various 'necropolicies' – death-bound policies – in neoliberal urban growth. By integrating insights from green and spatial criminology, urban studies and planning, it envisions alternative futures and solutions to various urban challenges. In sum, this book connects green and urban criminology, urban studies and planning to reveal how ordinary and extraordinary challenges are entangled in urban design, harm and, most importantly, imagining alternative futures and cities. 30 September 2026 | 216pp | 14 color & 1 b&w images 9781978846579 | £26.99 / $34.95 | PB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
BATTLING THE BOARD
Shareholder Activism, Sustainability, and Social Movements in Australia
Ainsley Elbra Emerging Frontiers in the Global Economy The boards and management of listed companies are under increasing pressure from investors to address urgent environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Ainsley Elbra identifies significant governance gaps between societal expectations and corporate behavior. Integrating social movement theory and corporate governance frameworks, Elbra demonstrates the potential of market-based activism to drive change within corporations and industries. She warns, however, that successful social movements can be undermined by government intervention. 11 August 2026 | 244pp | 2 illus., 4 tables, 2 figures 9781503646162 | £56.00 / $70.00 | HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
A BORROWED LAND
Peter R. Onedera As the descendant of an issei, or firstgeneration immigrant, Peter R. Onedera chronicles the Nikkei’s experiences in Guam from their arrival to their assimilation into the island’s life and culture, their hardship and resilience during the war, and the struggles they endured after. Onedera interweaves both historical and personal accounts to document how heritage and history shape personal and collective identity. The story also unveils the complexities of Onedera’s own healing, as he explores his CHamoruJapanese heritage and reveals the discrimination he and other Nikkei experienced in postwar Guam. 26 May 2025 | 231pp 9781961058026 | £10.99 / $15.00 | PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
HISTORY OF THE MARIANA ISLANDS
Luis de Morales, S.J. & Charles Le Gobien, S.J. Edited by Alexandre Coello de la Rosa Histoire des isles Marianes (History of the Mariana Islands), was published in Paris in 1700 with authorship attributed to French Jesuit priest Charles Le Gobien, S.J. It provides a detailed glimpse into a tumultuous and critically significant period in the history of the Mariana Islands and the CHamoru people—the period commonly referred to as the CHamoruSpanish Wars. It also features speeches by CHamoru chiefs, including the famous speech by Maga'låhi Hurao that is etched onto the wall at the entrance of the Guam Museum. 09 June 2025 | 304pp 9781935198093 | £71.00 / $89.00 | HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
THE LIFE AND MARTYRDOM OF THE FATHER DIEGO LUIS DE SAN VITORES, S.J.
Francisco García, S.J. Translated by Margaret M. Higgins, Felicia Plaza, M.M.B. & Juan M.H. Ledesma, S.J Edited by James A. McDonough, S.J. A collection of official and unofficial letters and documents in addition to testimonies collected shortly after the death of Diego Luis de San Vitores, S.J., the Jesuit priest who established the Catholic religion in the island of Guam in the late 1600s. The scope of the book includes not just the four brief years of San Vitores' time in Guam, but another ten years of missionary work following his death. 07 April 2025 | 560pp 9781878453556 | £71.00 / $89.00 | HB
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DRINK AND DEMOCRACY
Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia
Matthew Allen Intoxicating Histories The nineteenth-century spread of democracy in Britain and its colonies coincided with an increase in alcohol consumption and in celebratory public dinners with rounds of toasts. British colonists raised their glasses to salute the Crown in rituals that asserted fraternal equality and political authority. Yet these ceremonies were reserved for gentlemen, leaving others – notably women and Indigenous people – on the political margins. Drink and Democracy traces the development of democratic ideas in New South Wales through the history of public drinking and temperance. 06 May 2025 | 306pp | 9 photos 9780228024743 | £33.00 / $42.95 | PB
NO AUS RIGHTS - UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
WHO CARES ABOUT REPRESENTATION?
Race, Ethnicity, and Legitimacy in Westminster Democracies
Feodor Snagovsky While almost every advanced democracy has become more ethnically diverse over the past century, ethnic minorities remain dramatically underrepresented in elected government positions in proportion to the general population. Drawing on surveys and election studies in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, Feodor Snagovsky examines whether the ethnic composition of legislatures affects how responsive both white and non-white voters think their political system is to their interests. He finds only limited evidence that this descriptive representation shapes how ethnic-minority voters feel about their governments. 02 July 2026 | 312pp | 27 charts, 38 tables 9780774872966 | £79.00 / $99.00 | HB
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UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
ADAM SMITH'S ISLANDS
HANDING OVER THE KEYS
John C. Weaver Many developed countries restructured relations between state and economy from the late 1970s into the 1990s. Among them, New Zealand went far, fast, and left a clear trail, making it possible to study economic restructuring as it occurred, with all the debates, uncertainty, surprises, mistakes, and accomplishments this entailed. Adam Smith's Islands reveals the inside life of a government determined to revolutionize its nation's politics and economy. John Weaver examines how local and global institutions had to come together to implement social adjustments in New Zealand. 01 April 2025 | 690pp | 9 photos, 9 tables 9780228023821 | £38.00 / $49.95 | PB
Linda Mussell Generations of Indigenous people have experienced the injustices wrought by institutional confinement. Handing over the Keys compares three countries with enduring records of confining Indigenous people. Intergenerational imprisonment – the legacies of institutional confinement in an array of settings – leaves a long shadow. Linda Mussell seeks the keys to transformative change through a rigorous policy analysis and interviews with frontline practitioners, policy professionals, and people who have lived experience of imprisonment. Her goal is policy transformation to address both Indigenous hyper-imprisonment and intergenerational impacts. 15 April 2026 | 322pp 9780774871266 | £88.00 / $110.00 | HB
New Zealand's Incomparable Restructuring, 1980–1995
MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS
Indigenous Peoples and Carceral Injustice
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NO AUS RIGHTS - MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING
NO AUS RIGHTS - MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING
AUSTRALIA FAIR?
Democracy, Bureaucracy and the Making of Modern Australia
James Walter & Carolyn Holbrook Who advises politicians about the issues that impact our daily lives, and how has their advice changed over time? In Australia Fair? authors James Walter and Carolyn Holbrook explore the world of departmental officials and political advisers who wield significant influence in shaping our society and assess how policy advice has changed since World War II. Focusing on three foundational policy domains - immigration, Indigenous affairs and housing - Australia Fair? reveals how social change, ideological differences and power dynamics have transformed Australia's political landscape and society. And challenges us to reckon with a new era of policy innovation, to debate how we want to be governed and to choose what kind of society we want to be. 30 September 2026 | 400pp 9780522882148 | £22.99 / $30.00 | PB
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING
EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY IN COLONIAL AUSTRALIA
Elisa deCourcy Early Photography in Colonial Australia explores the origins of the photographic culture that continues to shape how we see the world. From its mid-nineteenth-century beginnings photography was more than just a new technology - it was deeply implicated in the colonial project. The invention of photographic technology coincided with the rise of imperial control across the Pacific, and many of its raw materials were extracted from colonised lands. This book offers the first major study of photography's arrival and establishment in colonial Australia. It places photographs in conversation with prints, sketches and watercolours to explore how the foreign medium adapted to the Australian environment, artistically and politically. It shows how cameras were put to work, visually redacting Indigenous custodianship and knowledge of Country to celebrate colonial construction and expeditions. Early Photography in Colonial Australia reveals the complex power of the medium. Elisa deCourcy considers these early images beyond colonial systems of knowledge and their contemporary role in acts of colonial reckoning and First Nations cultural reclamation. 14 October 2025 | 272pp 9780522883053 | £26.99 / $35.00 | PB
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING
BEYOND GREEN
The Social Life of Australian Nature
Lesley Head Drawing on her life's work and lessons she has picked up along the way, Head suggests that it is up to us to attentively listen, the better to destabilise and subvert dominant narratives, and to imagine new possibilities. She believes we have the nous, resources and lessons from Indigenous, settlerdescendant and immigrant cultures to reduce risk in the face of the unexpected and the unimaginable. In Beyond Green, the story of nature and people weaves research and personal experience through many different times and spaces, offering new ways of understanding. It is a richly creative engagement with the abundant possibilities and pleasure of nature as a place of regeneration that is as warned by the rawk of the crow as it is accompanied by the carolling of magpies. 14 May 2025 | 224pp 9780522880632 | £22.99 / $30.00 | PB
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BEYOND THE MEETING OF THE WATERS
MARY BOOTH
Wayne Atkinson & Catherine Guinness An essential voice of his generation, Atkinson has been at the forefront of Aboriginal cultural renaissance in Victoria since the 1980s, when Kooris asserted their rights to selfdetermination. His advocacy for human rights has contributed to widespread reform. Beyond the Meeting of the Waters is a penetrating and deeply humane insight into the power of the voice, the spear of the pen and the potential of collective organisation. 16 September 2025 | 288pp 9780522883275 | £32.00 / $40.00 | HB
Raelene Frances & Bruce Scates Drawing on newly uncovered personal correspondence, Mary Booth reveals the intimate world behind the public figure. It not only restores a formidable woman to the historical record but uncovers the pivotal, and often overlooked, role of women in forging Australia's national story and the enduring myth of Anzac. This is the compelling story of a forgotten feminist and the nation she helped build. 17 March 2026 | 384pp 9780522883121 | £31.00 / $40.00 | PB
A Yorta Yorta Life Story
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING
The Woman who Shaped the Anzac Legend
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING
FIRST TASMANIANS
NATION, MEMORY, MYTH
Shayne Breen Multiple genocidal policies left contemporary First Tasmanians with a complex legacy of historical grief, chronic disadvantage and intergenerational trauma, a legacy that endures to this day. Told in three movements: the deep hunter-gatherer past; the collective life at the time of the British invasion; and the recent past. It is a story of courage, continuity and an unwavering commitment to revitalising connections between country, culture and community. 12 August 2025 | 336pp 9780522883084 | £32.00 / $40.00 | HB
Steve Vizard Nation, Memory, Myth offers the reader a challenging new look at the extraordinary vitality of myth as a unifying force that generates meaning for a nation and its citizens. Only by understanding myth's evolution across time and by disentangling it from history, memory and forgetting, can we begin to sense what an Australia in the twenty-first century may mean. 16 April 2025 | 372pp 9780522883145 | £26.99 / $35.00 | PB
A Deep History
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING
Gallipoli and the Australian Imaginary
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING
MAKING PROGRESS
NO POWER GREATER
Jenny Macklin With Joel Deane Legendary Labor policymaker Jenny Macklin believes that if Australia wants to remain prosperous and fair, big policy reform is not just possible, it's essential. Making Progress takes us into the policy engine room and details how Macklin went about developing transformational initiatives such as the Apology to the Stolen Generations, and paid parental leave, as well as delivering pension reforms that lifted one million Australians out of poverty. 16 April 2025 | 312pp 9780522866872 | £20.99 / $28.00 | PB
Liam Byrne Foregrounding the pioneering efforts of women workers, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers, culturally and linguistically diverse workers, and LGBTIQA workers as central to the union story today, Byrne uses case studies of worker action and struggle to better understand the lived reality of unionism, its challenges, and its contribution to Australian life. No Power Greater is the compelling story of the acts of rebellion and solidarity that have shaped Australia's past and shows that unions are far from history. 14 May 2025 | 312pp 9780522879292 | £19.99 / $26.00 | PB
How Good Policy Happens
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING 11
The History of Union Action in Australia
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING 12
NO AUS RIGHTS - MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING
NO AUS RIGHTS - NEWSOUTH PUBLISHING
SEARCH FOR SECURITY
AUKUS and the New Militarism
Mark Beeson, Kanishka Jayasuriya & Sian Troath Search for Security brings together a diverse and expert group of scholars to explain the politics of AUKUS and place it in the context of wide-ranging global transformations. We explore the development and implications of AUKUS at a time of great international uncertainty. It is a timely contribution to a crucial debate about Australian foreign and domestic policy in a period of intensifying militarism. 11 November 2025 | 312pp 9780522883459 | £26.99 / $35.00 | PB
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING
THE SOUTHERN FRONTIER
Australia, Antarctica and Empire in the Southern Ocean World
Rohan Howitt Rohan Howitt recovers a forgotten way of thinking about this region: as one frontier of an Australian Empire stretching from the equator to the South Pole. At a time when the Australian Government is ramping up its investment in Antarctica and geopolitical tensions are on the rise, The Southern Frontier provides the historical explanation for how Australians came to see the world to their south as a natural extension of the nation's territory. 14 May 2025 | 288pp 9780522880519 | £22.99 / $30.00 | PB
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING
THE TWILIGHT OF EXCEPTIONALISM
The Liberal and Conservative Era 2013-22
Paul Kelly Examines how the Liberal Party lost its long-standing grip on the Australian psyche as it cycled through three temperamentally and ideologically divergent prime ministers. Australian exceptionalism, as initiated by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating in 1983 and carried on by John Howard and Peter Costello, has been eclipsed and slipped into a disappointing twilight. 30 September 2026 | 764pp 9780522882339 | £31.00 / $40.00 | PB 9780522869125 | £52.00 / | HB
LOOKING FROM THE NORTH
Australian History from the Top Down
Henry Reynolds Henry Reynolds’ ground-breaking re-examination of Australian colonisation from the north down. When acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds moved from Hobart to Townsville to teach Australian history in the 1960s, he discovered the books of the period covered very little about northern Australia and First Nations peoples. After recognising the importance of local history and frontier violence, he ended up transforming Australian history in ways he could never have imagined. In Looking from the North Reynolds again turns Australian history on its axis in an exploration of colonisation north of the Tropic of Capricorn. Reynolds explores the stories of the European, Chinese, Japanese and Pacific Islander people who were vital to the settlement of the north. Along with the experience of First Nations peoples, from employment on stations and as native police, to the land rights and homelands movements. Reynolds shows how the colonisation of the north, beginning in 1861, was a very different venture to settlement in the south, and argues that it provides profoundly important lessons for the world we live in today. 15 December 2025 | 224pp 9781761170119 | £19.99 / $28.00 | PB
NEWSOUTH PUBLISHING
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ROOTED
An Australian History of Bad Language
Amanda Laugesen Bugger, rooted, bloody oath … What is it about Australians and swearing? We’ve got an international reputation for using bad language and letting rip with a choice swear word or two. Bad language has been used in all sorts of ways in our history: to defy authority, as a form of liberation and subversion, and as a source of humour and creativity. It has also been used to oppress and punish. Revealing the fundamental tensions, conflicts, preoccupations and anxieties that have shaped our past and continue to shape our present, the story of bad language tells a unique history of Australia. In Rooted, Chief Editor of the Australian National Dictionary Amanda Laugesen takes us on an engrossing journey through the tumultuous history of Australia’s bad language. 01 November 2026 | 320pp 9781761170904 | £19.99 / $28.00 | PB
NEWSOUTH PUBLISHING
THE VANISHING WILD
Australian Wildlife and the Fight Against Extinction
Justine E. Hausheer Australia is a country celebrated for its wildlife, and yet native species are in crisis. In the last 200 years, Australia has lost more biodiversity than any other developed nation. In this book, Justine E. Hausheer encounters the pygmy possums that live high in the Snowy Mountains, hears the booming calls of bitterns from their adopted home in the Riverina’s rice fields, crouches after dark in the spinifex grasslands listening for the elusive night parrot, and meets the adorable fat-tailed dunnarts who might hold the answers to reviving the Tasmanian tiger. The Vanishing Wild shows us the harsh reality of the extinction crisis – as well as the future of conservation and what can be done to save Australia’s native species. 30 September 2026 | 336pp 9781761170393 | £19.99 / $28.00 | PB
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2027 AUSTRALASIAN SKY GUIDE
Nick Lomb Featuring monthly sky maps, with details of the movement of the planets, stars and constellations, the 2027 Australasian Sky Guide is a must-have handbook to the year’s most exciting celestial events. The book offers the latest information on the solar system and its history, as well as tips for optimal viewing. 2027 Highlights: Supermoon in January, The Moon covers Jupiter in March, Eta Aquariid meteor shower in May, Venus close to Saturn in May, Mercury close to Venus in October, Venus close to Mars in November. 01 October 2026 | 144pp 9781761170911 | £13.99 / $20.00 | PB
NEWSOUTH PUBLISHING
FOREIGN RETURN
On Art and Inhabitation
Neha Kale How do you inhabit spaces that were never built for you? Can you find home somewhere you were never supposed to belong? As a child, Neha Kale migrated from India to the outer reaches of suburban Perth, an ancestral home, a colonial house in Goa, lingering in her memory. Mixing personal narrative with art and cultural criticism, Foreign Return explores the myth of the suburbs, colonial legacies, what it means to migrate to a stolen land, and changing ways we will need to conceive of homes and their ownership. 01 September 2026 | 228pp 9781761170614 | £19.99 / $28.00 | PB
NEWSOUTH PUBLISHING
HOOKED
Inside the Murky World of Australia’s Gambling Industry
Quentin Beresford Australians lose around $32 billion on legal forms of gambling each year, the most of any country in the world, while the industry rakes in $244 billion through poker machines, lotteries, casinos and the exponential rise in sports betting. In Hooked, Quentin Beresford explores how gambling expanded from a highly restricted recreational activity to a mega industry. Hooked exposes the underbelly of gambling in Australia. 01 November 2025 | 368pp 9781761170256 | £22.99 / $32.00 | PB
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MELBOURNE AIRPORT TULLAMARINE
THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE STOLEN MACE
Arun Chandu & Matt Harvey Melbourne Airport, better known to locals as ‘Tullamarine’ or ‘Tulla’, was the first purpose-built Airport City in the world. Its facilities in 1970 were unsurpassed by any international airport – it had a golf course, hotel, art gallery, cinema, exhibition space, multiple bars, VIP lounge, and a fine dining restaurant with an executive chef soon to have three Michelin stars. Today, Tullamarine remains at the cutting edge, with new and expanding terminals, more efficient roads, a new third runway recently approved, and a rail link soon to be in the works. 30 September 2026 | 256pp 9781761170805 | £35.00 / $47.00 | PB
Sally Young In The Curious Case of the Missing Mace, old and new evidence – including letters, witness statements and police reports – are pieced together after 135 years to reveal the thief and how he got away with the political crime of the century just as Melbourne was sinking into political and economic chaos caused by theft on a much grander scale. 01 October 2026 | 240pp 9781761170850 | £20.99 / $29.00 | PB
A History
Solving Australia’s Strangest Political Crime
NEWSOUTH PUBLISHING
NEWSOUTH PUBLISHING
PIX
THE LIBRARY THAT MADE ME
Kate Evans Edited by Margot Riley PIX magazine hit Australian newsstands in January 1938 and went on to become one of the country’s most popular newsweeklies, national in scope and read by millions. With a mix of scandal and sensationalism, cover girls and humaninterest stories, what was most distinctive about PIX was its compelling black-and-white photos. This is the first book to celebrate PIX magazine and its unforgettable photography. 30 September 2026 | 336pp 9781761170553 | £35.00 / $47.00 | HB
Richard Neville & Phillipa McGuinness The Library has earned its enduring place in the heart of the city, and in the hearts of readers and visitors everywhere. In the early days members were vetted, women weren’t welcome and having fiction on the shelves raised eyebrows. Libraries today are vibrant cultural hubs open to all and are shaped by the people they serve. A love letter to libraries everywhere, The Library that Made Me is a book readers will want on permanent loan. It will make you wonder about the library that made you. 30 September 2026 | 344pp 9781761170713 | £28.99 / $40.00 | HB
The Magazine That Told Australia’s Story
NEWSOUTH PUBLISHING
THE BEST AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE WRITING 2026
Edited by Fiona McMillan-Webster The finest voices in Australian science writing. This muchloved anthology – now in its sixteenth year – selects the most riveting, entertaining, poignant and fascinating science stories from Australian writers, poets and scientists. The Best Australian Science Writing 2026 anthologises another landmark year in science. From AI to the climate crisis, and the changing nature of what science looks like, there’s been plenty of ground to cover. Science writers have been vital in decoding these – at times worrying – glimpses of the future, and the many solutions that scientists are working on. 16 October 2026 | 320pp 9781761170867 | £18.99 / $26.00 | PB
200 Years of the State Library of NSW
NEWSOUTH PUBLISHING
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FRONTIER
Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia
Henry Reynolds Drawing from documentary and oral evidence, the book describes in meticulous and compelling detail the ways in which First Nations peoples responded to the arrival of Europeans. Reynolds’ argument that First Nations peoples resisted fiercely was highly original when it was first published and changed the way we understand Australian history. 01 December 2026 | 288pp 9781761170966 | £19.99 / $28.00 | PB
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THE PEOPLE'S GUIDE TO THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION
Rosalind Dixon & William Partlett Illustrates how the Australian Constitution gives people the power to participate in and decide the shape of government and the policies it adopts. Leading legal academics shed light on what Governor General John Kerr didn’t acknowledge about the Constitution when he dismissed the Whitlam Government, the tension between Australia’s Christian settler colonial constitutional identity and the recognition of First Nations peoples, the advantages and risks of constitutional change and much more. 01 March 2026 | 144pp 9781761170515 | £11.99 / $16.00 | PB
NEWSOUTH PUBLISHING
TRIP REPORTS
Stories from an Australian Psychedelic Renaissance
Rich Haridy Investigative journalist Rich Haridy reports on the latest developments in psychedelic medicine. Psychedelics have been one of the most exciting – and controversial – developments in mental health treatment in recent years. Haridy has been reporting on this space for years. In that time he has seen many shifts, including Australia moving from one of the strictest to one of the most progressive nations when it comes to the ways that psychedelics can being studied in labs and in experimental trials. 01 September 2026 | 272pp 9781761170454 | £19.99 / $28.00 | PB
NEWSOUTH PUBLISHING
URBAN PEST MANAGEMENT IN AUSTRALIA
John Gerozisis, Phillip Hadlington & Ion Staunton Ion Staunton draws on his 68 years of industry knowledge to bring this invaluable pest management ‘bible’ to a new generation of technicians. A fully updated edition of the pest control classic. A new approach to teaching the basics of urban pests and their managementIncludes new, comprehensive ID information on termites. Includes updated information on modern pesticides and equipment. Not only an invaluable reference book, it will help with becoming an accredited pest manager. 30 September 2026 | 336pp 9781761170560 | £58.00 / $79.00 | PB
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WHEN WORDS FAIL US Truth Beyond Time
Stan Grant I am out of words at home. I have grown bored with my language, bored with my voice, bored with my writing. My words labour under the weight of Australia’s history. The land itself, as much as I love it, bears down hard. Now in another place, I am finding lighter words. At times, I may not need to speak at all. I smile; I nod. I seek permission to speak. Please, do you mind? Will you allow me? In an important book for our times, Stan Grant – one of Australia’s most prominent writers on identity, nationhood and belonging – reflects on how we struggle to speak to one another today, and the importance of listening, silence and philosophy, from Plato to Simone Weil to Radiohead. 30 September 2026 | 128pp 9781761170751 | £15.99 / $22.00 | HB
NEWSOUTH PUBLISHING
WILD NEIGHBOURS
Urban Nature Up Close
Ann Göth & Darryl Jones Meet the plants and animals who’ve left life in the bush and moved into a park, street or front yard near you. Raucous galahs, secretive blue-tongues and landscaping brush-turkeys share our towns and suburbs. And to make a life in the city, they’ve learned to be flexible, resilient and street-smart. They’ve transformed our suburbs into living, breathing ecosystems, places where wildness hasn’t vanished, but simply moved in. If you’ve ever wondered why magpies sing in duets, how cockatoos learned to open bins or why koalas sleep so much, Wild Neighbours will help you understand the habits, personalities, quirks, ingenuity and everyday dramas of the animals and plants that live among us. It’s time to get to know the neighbours. 01 November 2026 | 224pp 9781761170768 | £19.99 / $28.00 | PB
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THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
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Environment and Society
Making Nature, Knowledge, and People in Oceania
Edited by Moshe Rapaport This new edition of a popular text reviews the diverse landforms, climates, ecosystems, societies, and cultures of the Pacific region. Pacific Island societies have been coping with environmental and demographic challenges for millennia; surviving societies have much to teach us about sustainable living, social justice, and reconciliation. Policy makers, educators, students, and the general public will find this book an indispensable resource for understanding the region's past, present, and future. 30 April 2026 | 448pp | 139 b&w illus. 9780824899592 | £50.00 / $65.00 | PB
Edited by Jamon Alex Halvaksz & Joshua A. Bell From early explorers to contemporary scientists, naturalists have examined island flora and fauna of Oceania, discovering new species, carefully documenting the lives of animals, and creating work central to the image of Oceania. Offering a nuanced gradient as historical narratives of scientific investigation, in dialogue with local histories, and reveal greater levels of participation in the creation of knowledge. 31 January 2026 | 292pp | 25 b&w illus. 9798880703562 | £22.99 / $30.00 | PB
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GLOBAL AYAHUASCA
Beyond Binaries and Double Binds
Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds
Michael Jackson Pushing back against the idea that dilemmas as clear-cut binary choices, renowned anthropologist Jackson shows us some of the ways that dilemmas are addressed in non-Western thought, traditions, and philosophy. Drawing on examples from his extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Africa and Australia, each of thirteen chapters examines a particular dilemma. 12 November 2024 | 200pp 9781512826708 | £22.99 / $29.95 | PB 9781512826715 | £96.00 / $120.00 | HB
Alex K. Gearin Spiritual Phenomena Based upon ethnographic research among Shipibo healers in remote Peru, alternative medicine groups in urban Australia, and entrepreneurs and corporate managers in mainland China, Global Ayahuasca examines how the wondrous visions of ayahuasca are entangled within the social and economic realities that they illuminate, revealing different tensions, fears, and hopes of everyday modern life. 06 August 2024 | 296pp | 14 halftones 9781503639836 | £22.99 / $30.00 | PB 9781503636576 | £96.00 / $120.00 | HB
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