Black Inc imprint: 229 books
Across the Seas
Australia's Response to Refugees: A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Today, Australia’s response to asylum-seeking ‘boat people’ is a hot-button issue that feeds the political news cycle. But the daily reports and political promises lack the historical context that would allow for informed debate. Have we ever taken our fair share of refugees? Have our past responses...
by John Hirst
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
Sense and Nonsense in Australian History represents a lifetime's original reflection by Australia's most innovative and penetrating historian. Included here are classic essays on the pioneer legend, Australian egalitarianism and colonial culture. There are celebrated critiques of The Tyranny of Distance,...
by Alice Pung
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
A BRILLIANT COLLECTION FROM ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S LEADING WRITERS
Close to Home brings together Alice Pung’s most loved writing, on topics such as migration, family, art, belonging and identity. Warm, funny, moving and unfailingly honest, this is Alice at her best – an irresistible pleasure...
by John Hirst
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
What are the qualities at the heart of Australian culture? How did they arise? What distinguishes us from other nations beyond a fondness for calling each other ‘mate’? And what do such national quirks reveal about our society, our past and our attitudes towards it? Looking for Australia is a fascinating...
Power Failure
The Inside Story of Climate Politics Under Rudd and Gillard
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The inside story of a wicked problem … What should Australia do about climate change? A succession of leaders has tried to answer this question – and come unstuck. Politicians and public servants call it a “wicked” problem – one highly resistant to solution – and many approaches have been...
by Amanda Lohrey
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
A woman finds her everyday life engulfed by vivid fantasies, a businessman explores new ways to deal with his rage, a young woman is stuck on a boat with a bunch of delinquents, a diary is discovered, a commune goes wrong …
In this captivating collection of short fiction, award-winning novelist...
Chemical Free Pest Control
Hundreds of Practical and Inexpensive Ways to Control Pests without Chemicals
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Why use toxic and potentially harmful chemicals to control pests when chemical-free methods are equally effective - and much cheaper! This book contains everything you need to know to make pests unwelcome in your home - from ants, cockroaches, silverfish, slugs and snails, cane toads, rats, rabbits...
Inside the Greens
The Origins and Future of the Party, the People and the Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2019
A penetrating examination of the history and future of the Australian Greens
The re-election of a Coalition government, after a lost decade of policy backflips and leadership volatility, has redrawn the political landscape. With a record quarter of voters abandoning the major parties at the...
King of the Air
The Turbulent Life of Charles Kingsford Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
A revealing portrait of a brilliant and troubled figure – a daredevil of the skies
Charles Kingsford Smith was the most commanding flyer of the golden age of aviation. In three short years, he broke records with his astounding and daring voyages: the first trans-Pacific flight from America...
Their Brilliant Careers
The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Shortlisted for the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Absurd, original and highly addictive . . .
In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall, who discovered the secret...
by Craig Sherborne
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
‘Originality may not be everything in poetry, but it's hard enough to find at any moment in literary history. Necessary Evil is a consummate book, and of an instantly insistent originality. With it Sherborne goes to the top of Australian poetry - nobody is writing better.’— Peter Porter Necessary...
Eyewitness
Australians Write from the Front-Line
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
In Eyewitness, Garrie Hutchinson has selected the cream of writing from Australia's wars. Many of our finest writer-reporters are featured - C.E.W. Bean, Alan Moorehead, Paul McGeough, Kenneth Slessor, Ray Parkin, Osmar White, John Martinkus, Peter Ryan and more. The settings range from the beach at...
A Rightful Place
A Road Map to Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
The nation has unfinished business. After more than two centuries, can a rightful place be found for Australia’s original peoples?
Soon we will all decide if and how Indigenous Australians will be recognised in the Constitution. In this essential book, several leading writers and thinkers...
The Healing Party
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Estranged from her family, Natasha is making a life for herself in Darwin when her sister calls with bad news. Their mother is ill, and has only a few months to live. Confused and conflicted, Natasha returns to the home she fled many years before. But her father, an evangelical Christian, has not...