NewSouth Books

Midnight at the Library

Ursula Dubosarsky, illustrated by Ron Brooks

Age range: 5+In Midnight at the Library, critically-acclaimed author, Ursula Dubosarsky, and award-winning illustrator, Ron Brooks, traverse space and time, telling the story of a book throughout history. Dubosarsky and Brooks piece together the story of a book that was ...

National Library of Australia

Steam Australia: Locomotives that Galvanised the Nation

Tim Fischer
National Library of Australia

The Butcherbird Stories

A.S. Patric
Transit Lounge

The Best Australian Science Writing 2018

edited by John Pickrell
NewSouth

For Valour: Australians Awarded the Victoria Cross

Aaron Pegram, Craig Blanch
NewSouth

Yes Yes Yes: Australia’s Journey to Marriage Equality

Shirleene Robinson, Alex Greenwich
NewSouth

Clever Crow

Nina Lawrence, illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft
Magabala Books

The Women's Atlas

Joni Seager
NewSouth

Vanishing

Mike Lucas, illustrated by Jennifer Harrison
MidnightSun Publishing

Honeysuckle Creek: The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish and Neil Armstrong's First Step

Andrew Tink
NewSouth

News

Hunter Wine Wins Wine Book of the Year

Congratulations Julie McIntyre and John Germov, winners of the 2018 Wine Communicator of the Year Awards Best Wine Book for 'Hunter Wine: A History'! A beautiful book and fascinating history.

2018 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing winner announced

Congratulations to Dr Andrew Leigh MP, winner of the 2018 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing with his essay ‘From bloodletting to placebo surgery’. Runners-up prizes were awarded to Jo Chandler for ‘Amid fear and guns, polio finds a refuge’ and Margaret Wertheim for ‘Radical Dimensions’. 'The Best Australian Science Writing 2018', edited by John Pickrell, contains all the winning and shortlisted entries among a collection of the year’s best writing from Australian science communicators.

Winners Announced! 2018 NSW Premier's History Awards

Winners of the 2018 NSW Premier’s History Awards were announced on Friday 31 August. A huge congratulations to Christina Twomey, who won the Australian History Prize for her book 'The Battle Within: POWs in postwar Australia', and to Paul Irish, who received the NSW Community and Regional History Prize for 'Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney'. Both are extraordinary books that we are very proud to publish.