NewSouth Books

Stop Fixing Women: Why building fairer workplaces is everybody’s business

Catherine Fox

Millions of words have been spent in our quest to explain men’s seemingly never-ending dominance in boardrooms, in parliaments, in the bureaucracy and in almost every workplace. So why is gender inequality still such a pressing issue?Wage inequality between men ...

NewSouth

The Honest History Book

edited by David Stephens, Alison Broinowski
NewSouth

King of the Outback: The Story of Sidney Kidman

Kristin Weidenbach, illustrated by Timothy Ide
MidnightSun Publishing

The Big Book of Australian History

Peter Macinnis
National Library of Australia

Mrs White and the Red Desert

Josie Boyle, illustrated by Maggie Prewett
Magabala Books

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

David Suzuki, Ian Hanington
NewSouth

Amazing Activities for Minecrafters: Puzzles and Games for Hours of Entertainment!

contributions by Sky Pony Press
Sky Pony Press

The Tempest-Tossed Church: Being a Catholic today

Gerard Windsor
NewSouth

The Dragon Hunters

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

Beyond Mars and Venus: Relationship Skills for Todays Complex World

John Gray
BenBella Books

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.