NewSouth Books

Turmoil: Letters from the Brink

Robyn Williams

Robyn Williams, presenter of The Science Show on ABC Radio, reveals all in Turmoil, a searingly honest and often blackly funny reflection on his life, friends, the people he loves and loathes, and a multi-faceted career that includes over ...

NewSouth
9781742235776, Paperback, AUD$32.99

Digby & Claude

Emma Allen, illustrated by Hannah Sommerville
National Library of Australia
9780642279279, Hardback, AUD$24.99

The Word

William Lane
Transit Lounge
9781925760088, Paperback, AUD$29.99

Vengeful

V. E Schwab
Titan Publishing Group
9781785658631, Paperback, AUD$18.99

News

Winners Announced! 2018 NSW Premier's History Awards

Winners of the 2018 NSW Premier’s History Awards were announced on Friday 31 August. A huge congratulations to Christina Twomey, who won the Australian History Prize for her book 'The Battle Within: POWs in postwar Australia', and to Paul Irish, who received the NSW Community and Regional History Prize for 'Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney'. Both are extraordinary books that we are very proud to publish.

The Bible in Australia wins 2018 Christian Book of the Year

Big congratulations to Meredith Lake who has just won the 2018 Christian Book of the Year for her book The Bible in Australia. In The Bible in Australia, Meredith Lake explores how in the hands of Bible-bashers, immigrants, suffragists, evangelists, unionists, writers, artists and Indigenous Australians, the Bible has played a contested but defining role in this country.

NewSouth Books congratulates authors on the 2018 NSW Premier's History Awards Shortlist

Big congratulations from NewSouth Books to their authors and publishers included in the NSW Premier's History Awards Shortlist. For the Australian History Prize is 'The Battle Within' by Christina Twomey (NewSouth) and 'Slow Catastrophes' by Rebecca Jones (Monash University Publishing). For the NSW Regional and Community History Prize is 'Hidden in Plain View' by Paul Irish (NewSouth) and 'River Dreams' by Ian Tyrrell (NewSouth). And for the Young People’s History Prize is 'Marvellous Miss May' by Stephanie Owen Reeder (NLA Publishing).