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25.01.2022 We're thrilled to be publishing Living with the Anthropocene Edited by Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner and Jenny Newell, in this extraordinarily powerful and moving book, some of Australia's best-known writers and thinkers come together to reflect on what it is like to be alive during an ecological crisis. We're so happy to share the contributors are (in alphabetical order):... Michael Adams, Nadia Bailey, Saskia Beudel, Tony Birch, James Bradley, Jo Chandler, Adrienne Corradini, Sophie Cunningham, John Dargavel, Penny Dunstan, Delia Falconer, Laura Fisher, Suzy Freeman-Greene, Andrea Gaynor, Joëlle Gergis, Billy Griffiths, Ashley Hay, Justine Hyde, Lucas Ihlein, Jennifer Lavers, Ian Lunt, George Main, Cameron Allan Mckean, Gretchen Miller, Ruth A. Morgan, Stephen Muecke, Cameron Muir, Jenny Newell, Emily O'Gorman, Kate Phillips, Alison Pouliot, Jane Rawson, Annalise Ree, Lauren Rickards, David Ritter, Libby Robin, John Charles Ryan, Katrina Schlunke, Ray Thompson, Angela Tiatia, Ellen Van Neerven, Adriana Vergés, Kirsten Wehner, Gib Wettenhall, Josh Wodak, Kate Wright Living with the Anthropocene is out 1 October 2020. https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/living-anthropocene/
24.01.2022 Guardian Australia's next book club begins at 1PM today! The focus is on women's health, chronic pain, and the gendered medical system. Katerina Bryant (Hysteria) and Kylie Maslen (Show Me Where It Hurts) will be in conversation with Gabrielle Jackson (Pain and Prejudice). There is still time to register for free now... https://australiaathome.com.au//guardian-book-club-womens- See more
24.01.2022 NewSouth Books author Dr Gary Werskey released his book Picturing a Nation: The Art and Life of A.H. Fullwood on 1 March. Read more here:
23.01.2022 People have long told machines what to do by pushing buttons. Now, with advances in technology, machines are pushing our buttons. In Artificial Intimacy, evolut...ionary biologist Rob Brooks takes us from the origins of human behaviour to the latest in artificially intelligent technologies, providing a fresh and original view of the very near future of human relationships. Sex dollbots, digital lovers, virtual friends and algorithmic matchmakers help us manage our feelings in a world of cognitive overload. Apps can sense when a user is falling in love, when they are fighting, and when they are likely to break up. These machines, the 'artificial intimacies', already learn and exploit human social needs. They are getting better and faster at what they do. How will humanity's future unfold when our ancient, evolved minds and old-fashioned cultures collide with twenty-first-century technology? NewSouth Publishing
22.01.2022 Coming of Age in the War on Terror (Randa Abdel-Fattah, NewSouth) . . On September 11, 2001, two planes smashed into the World Trade Centre, igniting a conflict... between East and West which has been waged for the past two decades. Few people on earth, Muslim or non-Muslim, white or non-white, have been left unscathed by the impact of this trauma. To read more visit ‘Reviews’ via our home page, this is a locked article, a subscription is required. . 1. Click link in bio to our ‘home page’ 2. Select ‘Subscribe’ 3. Select ‘Step 1 & select your location to open the subscription page’ 4. Follow the prompts accordingly. . or...Stay connected...with B+P Newsletters, your vital source to industry news . 1. Click link in bio to our ‘home page’ 2. Select ‘view newsletters’ 3. Select ‘newsletters to receive’, enter your details & submit. Newsletters are emailed for free, but some may contain links to premium website content. To view this content, you must first log in to your Books+Publishing account or purchase a subscription. Follow @booksandpublishing . B+P Celebrating 100 years in 2021 . #booksandpublishing #100yearsin20201 #reviews #reviewer #bookreviews #booklover #bookish #readersofinstagram #bookclub #bookstagrammademedoit #bookcommunity #bookshelf #bookaddict #subscribe #justkeepreading #newsletter #dailynews #weeklybooknews #booknewstoyou #bookswillsave2021 #bookswillsave2020 See more
21.01.2022 The compelling stories we read in history books can help us think about and prepare for the future. Tonight we kicked off History Week by announcing the winners... of the 2020 NSW Premier’s History Awards. A total of $75,000 was awarded across five categories. And the winners are Australian History Prize 'Bedlam at Botany Bay' by James Dunk (@newsouthpub) General History Prize 'The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire' by Kate Fullagar (@yalepress) NSW Community and Regional History Prize 'Surviving New England: A History of Aboriginal Resistance and Resilience Through the First Forty Years of Colonial Apocalypse' by Callum Richard Clayton-Dixon (@RevivingAnaiwan) Young People’s History Prize 'The Good Son: A Story from the First World War, Told in Miniature' by Pierre-Jacques Ober, Jules Ober and Felicity Coonan (@CandlewickPressBooks) Digital History Prize (not pictured) 'Experiment Street' by Noëlle Janaczewska, Ros Bluett and Russell Stapleton (@radionational: The History Listen) Our warmest congratulations to all the winners and shortlisted writers. Read judges’ comments and watch the online announcement: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/nsw-premiers-history-awards See what’s on this History Week (@HistoryCouncilNSW): https://historycouncilnsw.org.au/events/
21.01.2022 Australians have always used salty language to defy authority and to have a laugh, but also to put down and stigmatise whole groups of people. A brilliant interview with Amanda Laugesen on ABC Australia Conversations with Richard Fidler
19.01.2022 Today marks the 4th anniversary of the #UluruSatement from the Heart which has just been awarded the 2021 Sydney Peace Prize by the Sydney Peace Foundation On 26 May 2017, after a historic process of consultation, The Uluru Statement from the Heart was read out. This clear and urgent call for reform to the community from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples asked for the establishment of a First Nations Voice to Parliament protected in the constitution and a proces...s of agreement-making and truth-telling. Voice. Treaty. Truth. What was the journey to this point? What do Australians need to know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart? And how can these reforms be achieved? Everything You Need to Know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart, written by Megan David and George Williams, two of Australia’s best-known constitutional experts, is essential reading on how our Constitution was drafted, what the 1967 referendum achieved, and the lead-up and response to the Uluru Statement. Importantly, it explains how the Uluru Statement offers change that will benefit the whole nation. #auslaw #auspol #MeganDavis #GeorgeWilliams #sorryday #unswlaw #unswpress
18.01.2022 Tomorrow, head to #sydneywritersfestival to hear about the timely anthology 'Upturn: A better normal after Covid-19'. The editor @tanyaplibersek will be chatting with Tim Soutphommasane, Wayne Swan, Annabel Crabb and Linda Burney. Book your spot here: https://www.swf.org.au/festivals/festival-2021/upturn/
17.01.2022 Big congratulations to Dr Stephen Gapps who has been awarded the Australian War Memorial's inaugural Les Carlyon Literary Prize for The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony, 17881817 https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/sydney-wars/
16.01.2022 Keen to shake up your STEM lessons? Two teachers share how they've integrated the UNSW Bragg Student Prize for Science Writing competition in class! NewSouth Publishing #sciencewriting #STEM #STEMeducation
15.01.2022 Great to see Hysteria in this incredible line-up! Don't forget to register FREE for the online book launch on 17 Sep https://www.betterreadevents.com/e/katerina-bryant-hysteria
15.01.2022 "In the book 'Plastic Free: The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters' Alex shares the story of how the choice she made to refus...e a plastic straw was the start to a great conversation. ‘I went out to dinner the other night with some friends and was the last one to order a cocktail. I asked for no straw and then everyone else ended up asking also! Even though it was only eight straws refused it still started a great conversation.’ Read more of her story and how this journey led everyone else dining with her to make a change. Plastic Free is available now in independent bookstores across Australia and New Zealand by NewSouth Publishing and internationally by Columbia University Press Joanna Atherfold Finn #PlasticFreeJuly #ChooseToRefuse #PlasticFreeStories #PlasticFreeBook #NewSouthPublishing #ColumbiaUniversityPress #NoStraw #Thelaststraw
13.01.2022 NEW RELEASE In Artificial Intimacy, evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks takes us from the origins of human behaviour to the latest in artificially intelligent technologies, providing a fresh and original view of the very near future of human relationships. Sex dollbots, digital lovers, virtual friends and algorithmic matchmakers help us manage our feelings in a world of cognitive overload. Apps can sense when users are falling in love, when they are fighting, and when they a...re likely to break up. These machines, the ‘artificial intimacies’, already learn how to exploit human social needs. And they are getting better and faster at what they do. So how will humanity’s future unfold as our ancient, evolved minds and old-fashioned cultures collide with twenty-first-century technology? #science #evolutionarybiology #artificialintelligence #artificialintimacy #robbrooks #unsw #unswscience #newrelease #stevenpinker #katedevlin
13.01.2022 December new release! For Gallantry: Australians Awarded the George Cross and the Cross of Valour by Craig Blanch 'Courageous behaviour comes in many forms. For Gallantry tells the remarkable true stories of some of Australia's most selfless people. A beautifully illustrated work that keeps you captivated from the first page.' Dan Keighran VC... From the frozen wastes of Antarctica to the burning ruins of the Bali bombings, For Gallantry tells the stories of the 28 Australians awarded the nation's highest non-combat awards for bravery: the Imperial George Cross and its Australian Honours and Awards replacement, the Cross of Valour. For Gallantry profiles their heroic actions in a dedicated volume for the first time.
12.01.2022 'Chris Wallace has a simple message for political leaders in her new book: politics isn't broken, you're just not doing it properly. That's why you keep losing elections.' The RiotACT
12.01.2022 Sneak peak Check out these advanced copies of just some of our October and November new releases From untold stories of Australian women pilots, a history of bad language, to stunning new editions of our best-selling city series with the full series including Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney and much more. ... Check out a full list of our upcoming releases in our catalogue http://manage.newsouthpublishing.com//2020July-DecemberCat
11.01.2022 October new releases Living with the Anthropocene is an extraordinary and moving book filled with Australia’s best environmental writers and thinkers including ecologists, walkers, farmers, historians, ornithologists, artists and community activists who come together to reflect on life in a time of ecological crisis. Personal and urgent, this book that builds a culture of care, respect, and attention to the physical world that is changing around us. Whether you ...are inclined to put on your walking boots and pack your sleeping bag, or would rather stay in a luxury hut, Melissa Harper’s The Ways of the Bushwalker will reveal how the ordinary act of walking can become extraordinary. This landmark book, now updated, was the first to delve into the rich and sometimes quirky history of busk walking in Australia. Out 1 October
11.01.2022 In Bedlam at Botany Bay, historian James Dunk looks at how mental illness surfaced in colonial New South Wales. Weaving a narrative of freedom and possibility, ...unravel and collapse, he traces the path of people who found themselves at the edge of the world and at the edge of sanity. Tune in to Bedlam on Saturday 12 September, 2:30 - 3:15 pm to find out how Dunk’s research about internal disorders has helped to shape the exterior world we live in. With Jenni Munday from Charles Sturt University #WAMAlbury #writearoundthemurray NewSouth Publishing Image: A painting of coastland with the words 'Bedlam at Botany Bay' written in white across it.
10.01.2022 Congratulations to Sally Young who has won the Colin Roderick Award for Paper Emperors A history of Australian newspapers spanning 140 years, Paper Emperors explains how Australia's media system came to be dominated by a handful of empires and powerful family dynasties. Written with verve and insight and showing unparalleled command of a vast range of sources, Sally Young shows how newspaper owners influenced policy-making, lobbied and bullied politicians, and shaped i...nternal party politics. One of Australia’s oldest literary awards, The Colin Roderick Literary Award was founded in 1967 and recognises the best original book, in the judges' opinion, that is published in Australia in the previous calendar year. Sally Young's Media Monsters: The transformation of Australia’s newspaper empires, 1941-1980 will be published by NewSouth is 2022. https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/paper-emperors/
09.01.2022 NEW RELEASE Upheaval: Disrupted lives in journalism A captivating collection of personal stories from more than 50 Australian journalists including Amanda Meade, David Marr and Flip Prior who witnessed seismic changes in the media. ... Top names share the rawness of losing their own job or watching others lose theirs. They show us life inside frenetic and vibrant newsrooms at the peak of their influence, and the difficulties of adapting to ever-accelerating news cycles with fewer resources. They reveal their anxieties and hopes for the industry’s future and their commitment to reporting news that matters. Investigative journalist Nick McKenzie says Upheaval is ‘essential reading for those who care about journalism and its struggle to survive.’ #newrelease #journalism #australianmedia #newbook #andrewdodd #matthewricketson #deakinuniversity #universityofmelbourne #abcaustralia #davidmarr
09.01.2022 May New Releases Reading Like an Australian Writer is an inspirational and heartfelt collection of essays that will enrich your reading of Australian stories and guide you in your own writing. In Artificial Intimacy, evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks takes us from the origins of human behaviour to the latest in artificially intelligent technologies, providing a fresh and original view of the very near future of human relationships.... Funny, lively and constructive, The New Academic by Simon Clews is your hands-on guidebook to excelling in academia. Gender Politics is a provocative and urgent collection that re-examines the way we navigate power and leadership in Australian politics. Smuggled marks the first attempt to detach the term ‘people smuggler’ from its pejorative connotations, and provides a compelling insight into a defining yet unexplored part of Australia’s history. #bookstack #newreleasebooks #bookstagram #newnonfiction #nonfictionbooks #creativewriting #booksonbooks
08.01.2022 What memories do you hold of your hometown, of the city you live in, lock-down in or get locked out of? How has your city changed over the last ten years? Eight cherished Australian writers explore these ideas and more in NewSouth’s iconic City Series, republished this month in striking paperback editions. Each writer has added a poignant new chapter reflecting on the changing idiosyncrasies of our capital cities ten years since they were first published from morphing sk...ylines and cut-down neighbourhood trees, to rising temperatures and burgeoning arts scenes. Brisbane by Matthew Condon Melbourne by Sophie Cunningham Canberra by Paul Daley Sydney by Delia Falconer Adelaide by Kerryn Goldsworthy Darwin by Tess Lea Hobart by Peter Timms Perth by David Whish-Wilson
08.01.2022 The stunning collection Living with the Anthropocene brings together Australia’s top environmental writers and thinkers. Read these rave early reviews: ’From James Bradley on cuttlefish to Saskia Beudel on the changing soundscape of her mother’s garden, the quality of writing in these pieces, their delight in nature and their determination not to give in to despair make for stirring reading despite the grim truths they confront.’ ... Fiona Capp, @sydneymorningherald / @theageaustralia ‘Pick of the Week’ ’...heartfelt, thorough and compelling. Living with the Anthropocene is both an acknowledgement that change is here as well as a quiet warning of the dangerous uncertainty to come.’ Warren Bonett, @booksandpublishing Living with the Anthropocene is out this week #newbook #bookstagram #nonfiction #environment #nature #anthropocene #crisis #love #loss #hope #book #wild
08.01.2022 The audiobook edition of The Bible in Australia: a cultural history, is out now! Check your local library or audiobook subscription service. Read by yours truly..., who wants to write the first review?? #audiobook #listening #history #australia Audible Wavesound Australia NewSouth Publishing https://www.audible.com.au//The-Bible-in-Austr/1004024606
08.01.2022 Adelaide author Katerina Bryant popped in recently to sign copies of HYSTERIA: A MEMOIR OF ILLNESS, STRENGTH AND WOMEN’S STORIES THROUGHOUT HISTORY (New South, ...$29.99). This beautifully written reflection on Bryant’s frightening experience of the onset of recurring dissociative episodes what would once have been termed hysteria is in conversation with the history of so-called hysterical women and a medical system that has long dismissed or under-estimated women’s invisible illness. It’s personal, political and deeply intelligent. And it’s an ideal reading companion to fellow Adelaide author and September debut Kylie Maslen’s SHOW ME WHERE IT HURTS, another intelligent, personal book about living with invisible illness.
07.01.2022 NEW RELEASE Gender Politics is a provocative and urgent collection that re-examines the way we navigate power and leadership in Australian politics. ‘At a time when many women are fighting to have their voices heard in Australian politics, this is a timely and important read.’ Sarah Hanson-Young... ‘This book exposes age-old obstacles and propels us to fast-track change.’ Natasha Stott Despoja AO #newrelease #auspol #politics #genderequality #genderpaygap #juliagillard #petacredlin #scottmorrison #tonyabbott #kevinrudd #juliebishop #laborparty #liberalparty #billshorten #unswpress #unsw #monashuniversity
07.01.2022 Watch this space! Alphabetical Sydney All Aboard! the musical is coming ... Here are some behind-the-scenes snaps from Creative Development at Riverside Theatres Parramatta.... There was an amazing team of creatives including Hilary Bell and Antonia Pesenti, composer Greta Gertler Gold, director Liesel Badorrek, designer Isla Shaw, puppeteer Alice Osborne, Luke Escombe, and Justine Clarke, Zara Stanton and Salina Myat. Co-produced by Critical Stages Touring. We can’t wait to see the book come to life! @antoniaillustration @_studiofable @criticalstagesau
05.01.2022 Huge congratulations to James Dunk for winning the 2020 The State Library of New South Wales Premier’s History Awards for Australian History The judges said: 'Combining meticulous research and compelling writing, James Dunk’s Bedlam at Botany Bay offers readers a strikingly original re-reading of early colonial Australia. Beautifully crafted and deeply empathetic, this is a book with genuine literary and scholarly merit. It makes a significant and invigorating impact on... the field of Australian history, and deserves to be read and discussed for many years to come.' See more of the judges comments here: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au//aus/2020-winner-bedlam-botany-b
04.01.2022 More big questions in this week's reading and listening list 'Books are a part of the archive; they are also an archive in itself. Hysteria is an archive ...of my illness over the two years in which it’s set.' Katerina Bryant on her debut novel, 'Hysteria' (NewSouth Publishing) via Meanjin Quarterly: https://bit.ly/2ZdLjyG Kate Fielding on the impact arts and culture can have on health and wellbeing via Queen Victoria Women's Centre: https://bit.ly/2Zdnqr5 An extract from Emma Ashmere - Author's new book, Dreams They Forgot, via The Newtown Review of Books:https://bit.ly/2F61oQ6 And don't forget to check out our own Q&A with the wonderful Emma: https://bit.ly/3jQrWUh One from the archives - Jessica White on Georgiana Molloy, Western Australia’s first female scientist, via Sydney Review of Books: https://bit.ly/2GB10d1 'Growing up, I never saw anyone like me in the media or saw any (non-villainous) Muslim characters in TV shows or movies', writes Tasnim Hossain for SBS Voices: https://bit.ly/324dFx6 'Welcome to the Nakba: notes from the epicentre of an apocalypse', by Dr Micaela Sahhar for Overland Literary Journal: https://bit.ly/2F3NcXR Margin Notes is a podcast co-hosted by Yen Eriksen and Zoya Patel which explores a different theme each week and unpacks it through the lens of race, feminism and identity. They've had some fantastic themes of late, including living with chronic illness, the unique experience of travelling as a migrant, and the phenomenon of migrant guilt: https://apple.co/3h3o80h Aileen Moreton-Robinson reflects on the twentieth anniversary of her seminal work 'Talkin’ Up to the White Woman' (University of Queensland Press), which exposed the blinding whiteness, and the serious limitations, of Australian feminist thought. This event comes courtesy of The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas and is part of their Broadly Speaking series: https://bit.ly/2QWy3tZ
03.01.2022 Join author Kathy Mexted in conversation about her newly released book Australian Women Pilots: Amazing True Stories of Women in the Air". From pioneering and ...outback flights to delivering Spitfires or tackling the jungles of New Guinea, Australian Women Pilots tells of ten Australians with extraordinary stories. See more
02.01.2022 'When Katerina Bryant was 24, she began experiencing an illness with no obvious cause. To describe it, Bryant points to a quote by Hemingway, of his time on the battlefield, in which he felt "my soul or something coming right out of my body, like you'd pull a silk handkerchief out of a pocket by one corner". And so she met with medical experts, took a number of tests and searched through history, looking for an explanation.... The explanation that she found linked back to a term that has been used throughout history: hysteria.' Katerina Bryant speaks to Patricia Karvelas on ABC Radio National The Drawing Room about her debut book Hysteria, also available through the podcast https://www.abc.net.au//hysteria-and-its-aftermath/12943750
02.01.2022 Inspired by the lack of selfishness she witnessed as we dealt with COVID 19, Tanya Plibersek MP decided to start a public conversation about how we could rebuild... Listen in to a wonderful conversation with @NicoleAbadee and @tanya_plibersek https://www.nicoleabadee.com.au//ep30-upturn-a-better-norm
01.01.2022 NEW RELEASE Smuggled: An illegal history of journeys to Australia People smugglers are the pariahs of the modern world. There is no other trade so demonised and, yet at the same time, so useful to contemporary Australian politics. ... But beyond the rhetoric lies a rich history that reaches beyond the maritime borders of our island continent and has a longer lineage than the recent refugee movements of the twenty-first century. Smuggled recounts the journeys to Australia of refugees and their smugglers since the Second World War. Based on original research and revealing personal interviews, Smuggled marks the first attempt to detach the term ‘people smuggler’ from its pejorative connotations, and provides a compelling insight into a defining yet unexplored part of Australia’s history.
