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Between the Last Oasis and the Next Mirage: Writing on Australia (Guy Rundle, MUP)
Released December 2021
Guy Rundle lives off his wits. Correspondent-at-large for Crikey, a founding editor of the left-wing journal Arena, former sketch comedy show producer and famed writer of lives, Rundle produces writing... Read more
Buying and Selling the Poor: Inside Australia’s privatised welfare-to-work market (Siobhan O’Sullivan, Michael McGann & Mark Considine, SUP)
Released December 2021
When Paul Keating put elements of Australia’s ‘welfare to work’ system out to tender in the mid-1990s, he could scarcely have imagined the system we have in place today: one... Read more
Doing Politics: Writing on public life (Judith Brett, Text)
Released November 2021
The state of the humanities in Australia today fills Judith Brett with despair. If she had a child considering a liberal arts degree now, and she had the money, she... Read more
Caught in the Act (Shane Jenek aka Courtney Act, Pantera Press)
Released November 2021
Shane Jenek’s drag queen alter ego Courtney Act has been in the public eye for almost 20 years, beginning with her groundbreaking appearance on the first series of Australian Idol. As... Read more
The One That Got Away: Travelling in the time of Covid (Ken Haley, Transit Lounge)
Released November 2021
The One That Got Away documents journalist and travel writer Ken Haley’s year evading the pandemic. While many of us were kept in captivity as Covid-19 raged across the world,... Read more
Another Day in the Colony (Chelsea Watego, UQP)
Released November 2021
Chelsea Watego’s debut essay collection Another Day in the Colony documents the sustained racism First Peoples suffer in this continent. Through critical race scholarship, memoir and archival imagery a powerful assemblage is... Read more
The Dancer: A biography for Philippa Cullen (Evelyn Juers, Giramondo)
Released October 2021
Dead in 1975 at 25 years old, the Australian avant-garde dancer, teacher and artist Philippa Cullen lived a tragically short life. And yet, at the time, her artistic activity cast... Read more
Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears (Bernadette Brennan, A&U)
Released October 2021
Gillian Mears’s comparatively short life is truly a gift for the brave biographer. A fiction writer of immense talent, Mears received a bounty of accolades, grants and awards, but was... Read more
Into the Rip (Damien Cave, Scribner)
Released October 2021
Damien Cave’s Into the Rip considers how we calculate and cope with risk in Australia. As the first bureau chief of the New York Times Australian outpost, Cave leverages his journalistic point... Read more
My Friend Fox (Heidi Everett, Ultimo Press)
Released September 2021
This memoir from mental health recovery advocate Heidi Everett is a thoroughly real and stunningly evocative retelling of her life as a person with diagnosed mental illness. Everett tells the... Read more
