NewSouth Books

Valiant for Truth: The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent

Mr Peter Brune, Neil McDonald

Chester Wilmot (1911–1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic struggle along the famed Kokoda Track, ...

NewSouth
9781742235172, Hardback, AUD$29.99

Assassin's Creed: Into the Animus: Inside a Film Centuries in the Making

Ian Nathan, foreword by Gérard Guillemot
Titan Books

Shark Tracker: Confessions of an underwater cameraman

Mr Richard Fitzpatrick
NewSouth
9781742234939, Paperback, AUD$32.99

The Unofficial Pokémon GO Tracker's Guide: Finding the Rarest Pokémon and Strangest PokéStops on the Planet

Adam M. Clare
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Catching the Jigglypuff Thief: Unofficial Adventures for Pokémon GO Players, Book One

Alex Polan
Sky Pony Press

Elemental

Amanda Curtin
UWA Publishing
9781742589169, Paperback, AUD$24.99

Following Meowth's Footprints: Unofficial Adventures for Pokémon GO Players, Book Two

Alex Polan
Sky Pony Press

Sydney Cemeteries: A field guide

Lisa Murray
NewSouth
9781742234489, Paperback, AUD$19.99

Come home you little bastards

Carl Beauchamp
Editia

We Are Arrested: A Journalist's Notes from a Turkish Prison

Can Dundar
Biteback Publishing

News

Ashley Hay wins 2016 UNSW Bragg Prize for Science Writing

Congratulations to Ashley Hay, who has been awarded the $7000 2016 UNSW Bragg Prize for Science Writing for her piece ‘The forest at the edge of time’, first published in the Australian Book Review. Runners-up prizes of $1500 were also awarded on the evening to Susan Double for ‘Beautiful contrivances’ (Orchids Australia) and Fiona McMillan for ‘Lucy’s lullaby: Song for the ages’ (published on the author’s website). For more information about the prize, read our blog post here.

Rachel Landers is shortlisted for the 2016 Nib Waverley Library Award

We’re excited to announce that Rachel Landers’ Who Bombed the Hilton? has been shortlisted for the 2016 Nib Waverley Library Award, which celebrates excellence in research in the creation of a literary work. In Who Bombed the Hilton? Landers wrestles with the evidence of the unsolved Hilton Hotel bombing in 1978, and amongst the details finds a prime suspect.

Congratulations to our authors on the QLD Premier’s Literary Awards shortlist

We’re thrilled to have a wide-range of titles up for QLD Premier’s Literary Awards 2016. In the History Book Award is 'Armenia, Australia and the Great War' (NewSouth), 'Australia’s Boldest Experiment' (NewSouth), 'The Oldest Foods on Earth' (NewSouth and 'Gay Sydney' (NewSouth). For the Non-fiction Book Award 'Offshore' (NewSouth) and 'Small Acts of Disappearance' (Giramondo), and for the Fiction Book Award is 'One' (Transit Lounge).