NewSouth Books

King of the Outback: The Story of Sidney Kidman

Kristin Weidenbach, illustrated by Timothy Ide

Ages 4+Sidney Kidman runs away from home at thirteen and travels to the outback on a one-eyed horse. He finds stray cows in the scrub, swims across rivers by hanging on to a bullock’s tail and dreams of having the ...

MidnightSun Publishing
9781925227246, Hardback, AUD$26.99

Just Cool It: The Climate Crisis and what we can do, a post-Paris agreement

David Suzuki, Ian Hanington
NewSouth
9781742235523, Paperback, AUD$27.99

The Big Book of Australian History

Peter Macinnis
National Library of Australia
9780642279026, Paperback, AUD$39.99

Billy Sing

Ouyang Yu
Transit Lounge
9780995359444, Hardback, AUD$27.95

Beyond Mars and Venus: Relationship Skills for Todays Complex World

John Gray
BenBella Books
9781942952299, Hardback (B401), AUD$37.99

Mrs White and the Red Desert

Josie Boyle, illustrated by Maggie Prewett
Magabala Books
9781925360578, Paperback, AUD$17.99

Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria

Brian Castro
Giramondo Publishing
9781925336221, Paperback, AUD$26.95

The Dragon Hunters

James Russell, illustrated by Link Choi
Jabberwocky
9781492649854, Paperback, AUD$14.99

White Butterflies (Updated edition)

Colin Mcphedran
NewSouth
9781742235387, Paperback, AUD$29.99

The Mysterious Mr Jacob: Diamond Merchant, Magician and Spy

John Zubrzycki
Transit Lounge
9780995359437, Paperback, AUD$29.99

News

NewSouth Congratulates Authors of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards shortlist

NewSouth is thrilled to congratulate all authors shortlisted for the NSW PLAs. For fiction Vancouver (Inkerman & Blunt); for new writing Letter to Pessoa (Giramondo) and The Bonobo’s Dream (Xoum); for poetry Ghostspeaking (Vagabond), Burnt Umber (UWA) and Fragments (Giramondo); for playwriting The Drover’s Wife (Currency Press) and Ladies Day (Currency Press); for the Multicultural NSW Award Offshore (NewSouth); and finally for the Translation Prize to Jennifer Lindsay, author of In Other Words (NewSouth).

Catherine Bishop wins the Ashurst Business Literature Prize

Our big congratulations to Catherine Bishop for winning the prestigious 2016 Ashurst Business Literature Prize for her book 'Minding Her Business: Colonial Businesswomen in Australia'. In this book, Bishop tells a history that populates the streets of colonial Sydney with entrepreneurial businesswomen earning their living in a variety of small – and sometimes surprising – enterprises. Bishop is the first historian to win the prize.

Congratulations to Leah Purcell and Madeline Gleeson on the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards

We’re thrilled that Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife (Currency Press) was awarded the overall Victorian Prize for Literature and Madeline Gleeson’s Offshore: Behind the wire on Manus and Nauru (NewSouth) won the Non-fiction award at the VPLA’s for their challenging and very timely books.