NewSouth Books

Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs: A frank, up-to-date guide by experts

Jane McAdam, Fiona Chong

Everyone has the right to seek asylum under international law. However, successive governments in Australia have declared the need to ‘stop the boats’ whatever the cost, be it human, economic, moral or legal.In this new book, Jane McAdam and ...

UNSW Press
9781742236520, Paperback, AUD$29.99

Can You Find 12 Busy Bees?

Gordon Winch, illustrated by Patrick Shirvington
New Frontier

Birds of Prey of Australia: A Field Guide, Third Edition

Stephen Debus
CSIRO Publishing
9781486311118, Paperback, AUD$44.99

Pippa

Dimity Powell, illustrated by Andrew Plant
Ford Street Publishing
9781925804270, Paperback, AUD$16.95
9781925804263, Hardback (Picture book), AUD$24.95

The Difference Identity Makes: Indigenous Cultural Capital in Australian cultural fields

edited by Lawrence Bamblett, Fred Myers, Tim Rowse
Aboriginal Studies Press
9781925302837, Paperback, AUD$39.95

Refuge

Richard Rossiter
UWA Publishing

Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives

edited by Alana Piper, Ana Stevenson
Monash University Publishing

Noongar Bush Tucker: Bush Food Plants and Fungi of the South-West of Western Australia

Vivienne Hansen, John Horsfall
UWA Publishing

Fabulous Lives

Bindy Pritchard
Margaret River Press
9780648485049, Paperback, AUD$27.00

Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice

Jessica White
UWA Publishing
9781760800383, Paperback, AUD$27.99

News

2019 Education Publishers Awards Australia

'Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story' by Elizabeth Tynan has been shortlisted for the Scholarly Non-Fiction Book of the Year prize in the 2019 Education Publishers Awards Australia. This prize is for a work of scholarly non-fiction that is both accessible to a wide readership and which has had an impact on the Australian community.

'Paddington: A History' wins 2019 National Trust Heritage Award

'Paddington: A History' edited by Greg Young and commissioned by The Paddington Society has won the 2019 National Trust Heritage Award for Heritage Publications. The category recognises publications, books, websites and videos that promote the conservation of, or tell the story of our heritage. This first major history of Paddington in 40 years provides a fresh perspective on this celebrated heritage suburb. Leading historians and specialists explore the makeup of Paddington’s diverse community and discuss the evolution of architecture and landscape.

ABDA Book Design Awards 2019 shortlist

Congratulations to Peter Long, cover designer, and Vivien Valk, internal designer, of 'The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean', who have been shortlisted for the ABDA Book Design Awards 2019.