NewSouth Books

Steam Australia: Locomotives that Galvanised the Nation

Tim Fischer

If you are passionate about steam locomotives, or know someone who is, then Steam Australia is the perfect companion. Tim Fischer takes readers into the fascinating and grand story of steam transportation over ten vital decades of transformation in Australia’s history. ...

National Library of Australia
9780642279293, Paperback, AUD$39.99

The Best Australian Science Writing 2018

edited by John Pickrell
NewSouth
9781742235882, Paperback, AUD$29.99

Midnight at the Library

Ursula Dubosarsky, illustrated by Ron Brooks
National Library of Australia
9780642279316, Hardback, AUD$24.99

Honeysuckle Creek: The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish and Neil Armstrong's First Step

Andrew Tink
NewSouth
9781742236087, Paperback, AUD$34.99

The Butcherbird Stories

A.S. Patric
Transit Lounge
9781925760309, Paperback, AUD$27.99
9781925760101, Hardback, AUD$29.99

For Valour: Australians Awarded the Victoria Cross

Aaron Pegram, Craig Blanch
NewSouth
9781742235424, Hardback, AUD$79.99

Nurses of Australia: The Illustrated Story

Deborah Burrows
National Library of Australia
9780642279309, Paperback, AUD$34.99

Clever Crow

Nina Lawrence, illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft
Magabala Books
9781922142610, Hardback, AUD$24.99

A New History of the Irish in Australia

Dianne Hall, Elizabeth Malcolm
NewSouth
9781742235530, Paperback, AUD$34.99

Complete Sherlock Holmes (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Barnes & Noble Inc
9781435167902, Hardback, AUD$49.99

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Hunter Wine Wins Wine Book of the Year

Congratulations Julie McIntyre and John Germov, winners of the 2018 Wine Communicator of the Year Awards Best Wine Book for 'Hunter Wine: A History'! A beautiful book and fascinating history.

2018 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing winner announced

Congratulations to Dr Andrew Leigh MP, winner of the 2018 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing with his essay ‘From bloodletting to placebo surgery’. Runners-up prizes were awarded to Jo Chandler for ‘Amid fear and guns, polio finds a refuge’ and Margaret Wertheim for ‘Radical Dimensions’. 'The Best Australian Science Writing 2018', edited by John Pickrell, contains all the winning and shortlisted entries among a collection of the year’s best writing from Australian science communicators.

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.