NewSouth Books

An Australian Band of Brothers: Don Company, Second 43rd Battalion, 9th Division

Mark Johnston

This riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II. No ordinary soldiers, they were members of Don Company of the Second 43rd Battalion, ...

NewSouth

The Bible in Australia: A cultural history

Meredith Lake
NewSouth

Our Birds: Nilimurrungu Wayin Malanynha

Siena Stubbs
Magabala Books

Bouncing Back: An Eastern Barred Bandicoot Story

Rohan Cleave, Coral Tulloch
CSIRO Publishing

Alfred’s War

Rachel Bin Salleh, illustrated by Samantha Fry
Magabala Books

The Flying Optometrist

Joanne Anderton, illustrated by Karen Erasmus
National Library of Australia

ABCs of Space

Chris Ferrie, Julia Kregenow
Jabberwocky
9781492671121, Board book, AUD$14.99

Gerald Murnane: Collected Short Fiction

Gerald Murnane
Giramondo Publishing

Pink Mountain on Locust Island

Jamie Marina Lau
Brow Books

Desperately Seeking Banksy

Xavier Tapies
NewSouth

News

NewSouth congratulates Publisher on the CBCA shortlist

NewSouth Books sends a big congratulations to Berbay Publishing author John Dixon and illustrator Bern Emmerichs whose book M is for Mutiny!: History by Alphabet has been shortlisted for the Children's Book Council (CBCA) 2018 Eve Pownall Award.

Congratulations Liz Tynan for winning the 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History

We are delighted to announce that Elizabeth Tynan's 'Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story' has received the 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History. The judges said, 'This well-executed work offers compelling and at times shocking information about an exercise that has been mired in secrecy and controversy for decades.' Tynan received the award, and $80,000 in prize money, at a ceremony in Canberra on 1 December. Our congratulations to all shortlisted authors.

NewSouth Congratulates Authors of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2017

NewSouth is thrilled to congratulate all authors shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards. For fiction Extinctions (Josephine Wilson, UWAP); for poetry Fragments (Antigone Kefala, Giramondo; for Australian history Valiant for Truth (Neil McDonald, NewSouth), Evatt (John Murphy, NewSouth), Atomic Thunder (Elizabeth Tynan, NewSouth) and A Handful of Sand (Charlie Ward, Monash University Publishing); and finally for the Nonfiction Award Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow (Suzanne Falkiner, UWAP)