NewSouth Books

The Red Bridge

Kylie Dunstan

Age range 5 to 9Claire's family has moved from Australia to Vietnam and the little girl finds herself lost in the busy, bustling streets of Hanoi, until she finds the red bridge and a new friend to show her the ...

Windy Hollow Books
9781922081940, Paperback, AUD$17.99

The Rock: Looking into Australia's ‘Heart of Darkness’ from the edge of its wild frontier

Aaron Smith
Transit Lounge
9781925760651, Paperback, AUD$29.99

CRISPR: A Powerful Way to Change DNA

Yolanda Ridge, illustrated by Alex Boersma
Annick Press
9781773214238, Paperback (Trade paperback US), AUD$24.99

The Best Australian Science Writing 2020

Edited by Sara Phillips, foreword by Peter C. Doherty
NewSouth
9781742236841, Paperback, AUD$32.99

Into the Wild

Robert Vescio, illustrated by Mel Armstrong
New Frontier
9781921928789, Hardback, AUD$24.99

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Oldcastle Books
9780857304568, Paperback, AUD$17.99

A Secret Australia: Revealed by the WikiLeaks Exposés

Edited by Felicity Ruby, Peter Cronau
Monash University Publishing
9781925835939, Paperback, AUD$29.95

On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done

David Badre, preface by David Badre
Princeton University Press
9780691218878, Paperback, AUD$29.99
9780691175553, Hardback (B315), AUD$54.99

Eco Rangers: Microbat Mayhem

Candice Lemon-Scott, illustrated by Aśka
New Frontier
9781925594829, Paperback, AUD$14.99

Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die

Steven Nadler
Princeton University Press
9780691233956, Paperback (Trade paperback US), AUD$32.99
9780691218885, Paperback, AUD$29.99
9780691183848, Hardback (B315), AUD$47.99

News

AAANZ Arts Writing and Publishing Awards

Congratulations to Vanessa Finney who has been Highly Commended in the Best Medium Exhibition Catalogue category for her book 'Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893'.

The UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing 2020

Ceridwen Dovey has won the 2020 UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing with ‘True Grit’, originally published in WIRED. The $7000 winner’s prize was presented by UNSW Science Dean Professor Emma Johnston AO. Runners-up prizes of $1500 each were awarded to Ricky French for ‘The Case of the Missing Frogs’ and Konrad Marshall for ‘Jeepers Creepers.’

Les Carlyon Literary Prize

'The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817' by Stephen Gapps has won the Les Carlyon Literary Prize. Congratulations Stephen!