Black Inc imprint: 229 books
Outback Penguin
Richard Lane's Barwell Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Richard Lane was one of three brothers who founded Penguin Books in 1935.
But like all great stories, his life didn’t start there.
After sailing to Adelaide in 1922, Richard began work as a boy migrant – a farm apprentice living in rural South Australia as part of the ‘Barwell...
A City Lost and Found
Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
“Old landmarks fall in nearly every block ... and the face of the city is changing so rapidly that the time is not too far distant when a search for a building 50 years old will be in vain.” —Herald, 1925.
The demolition firm of Whelan the Wrecker was a Melbourne institution for a hundred...
Clear and Concise
Become a Better Business Writer
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
How well do you write?
Good communication is a skill required by all professionals. Whether you're preparing reports, conducting reviews or simply writing emails, expressing your ideas clearly and persuasively is fundamental to your success in the workplace.
Susan McKerihan has spent...
by Eric Knight
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
A new perspective on a diabolical problem.
Climate change, one of the most polarising issues of our time, has reached a political deadlock in the battle of sceptics and believers. But it doesn't have to be that way. In Why We Argue about Climate Change, Eric Knight unpicks the misconceptions...
Trillion Dollar Baby
How Norway Beat the Oil Giants and Won a Lasting Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
For most of its history, the near-Arctic nation of Norway eked out a marginal existence from fishing, forestry and shipping. But things began to change in 1969, when the country confirmed it had found one of the world’s biggest offshore oilfields. As the revenue from this field and many others started...
Changing Jobs
The Fair Go in the New Machine Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
An essential guide to the future of work in Australia.
For many Australians, rapid progress in artificial intelligence, robotics and automation is a growing anxiety. What will it mean for jobs? What will it mean for their kids’ futures? More broadly, what will it mean for equality in this...
The Kingdom and the Quarry
China, Australia, Fear and Greed
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
China has rapidly become Australia’s most important trading partner. It is also the rising power in our region. In The Kingdom and the Quarry David Uren takes us inside the high-stakes world of the two countries’ relationship. From resource grabs to cybersurveillance, this is an authoritative and...
Vera
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
‘My revenge on Hitler is a lifetime in which delight has reached me from a hundred sources, and been welcomed.’—Vera Wasowski
A story of courage, unconventionality and lust for life.
Vera Wasowski was just seven years old when German soldiers marched her family into the Lvov Jewish...
Into the Woods
The Battle for Tasmania’s Forests
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Winner, 2011 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Winner, 2011 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards For many years, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of a fierce struggle. At stake is the future of old-growth forests. Loggers and police face off with protesters deep in the forest, while savage...
The Best Australian Stories
A Ten-Year Collection
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
The best of the best …
This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country’s finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
‘Great short stories have a power like a depth charge, subtext roiling up to the surface at precisely the right moment.’ —Cate Kennedy
In The Best Australian Stories 2011, Cate Kennedy presents the most outstanding short fiction of the past year.
These stories take us deep into...
The Professionals
Strategy, Money and the Rise of the Political Campaigner in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Winner of the 2015 Henry Mayer Book Prize for Australian Politics Stephen Mills has conducted on-the-record interviews with every living national campaign director of the two major political parties. Their experience covers the 15 federal election campaigns from 1974 to the present day. Built around...
Drawing Funny
A Guide to Making Your Terrible Little Cartoons Funnier
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you can’t learn cartooning, and it can’t be taught.’ And so begins Oslo Davis’ illustrated book on how to draw gag cartoons. Talk about shoot yourself in the foot! But he’s kidding, kind of. There are reasons why your terrible cartoons are not funny,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
‘The paint itself is part of the painting’s meaning; the words do not merely tell, but are the story…’ —Charlotte Wood
In The Best Australian Stories 2016, Charlotte Wood, author of The Natural Way of Things (winner of the 2016 Stella Prize, and the 2016 Indie Book of the Year),...