Black Inc imprint: 229 books
Dead Right
How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
An updated and expanded edition of the bestselling Quarterly Essay
How did the banks run wild for so long? Why are so many aged-care residents malnourished? And when did arms manufacturers start sponsoring the Australian War Memorial?
In Dead Right, Richard Denniss explores what neoliberalism...
by Ruby J. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Why has no one heard of Edna Cranmer?
When a young writer is hired to put together the life of an unknown artist from Geelong, of all places, she thinks it will be just another quick commission paid for by a rich, grieving family obsessed with their own past.
But Edna Cranmer was not...
by Catherine Deveny
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
At 2am., everything seems like a good idea… In 2008 the Pope came to Sydney, petrol prices soared and Australia proudly became the fattest nation on earth. Big Brother got the chop, Sam Newman mauled a mannequin and the Logies were as wonderfully bad as ever. Thank goodness for Catherine Deveny. Always...
Murder on Easey Street
Melbourne’s Most Notorious Cold Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
1977, Collingwood. Two young women are brutally murdered. The killer has never been found. What happened in the house on Easey Street?
On a warm night in January, Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were savagely murdered in their house on Easey Street, Collingwood – stabbed multiple times...
A Big Fix
Radical Solutions for Australia’s Environmental Crisis: Expanded and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
If civilisation is to survive, this century will have to see dramatic transformation, not just in technological capacity but also in our approach to the natural world - and to each other. The road we are travelling on now can only end in disaster. The warnings from scientists are unequivocal: we cannot...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.
The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.
I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.
All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints.
I became acutely aware...
Radical Hope
Education and Equality in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In Radical Hope, one of Australia’s most original and provocative thinkers turns his attention to the question of education. Noel Pearson begins with two fundamental questions: How to ensure the survival of a people, their culture and way of life? And can education transform the lives of the disadvantaged...
Australian Green Home and Garden
Practical and Inexpensive Ways to Reduce the Use of Chemicals in Your Home and Garden
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
**Do you want to live in harmony with the natural environment?
Are you or your family exposed to harmful chemicals at home?**
Australian Green Home and Garden introduces green alternatives, solutions to everyday household tasks that are effective, inexpensive and easy to apply.
It...
The Happiness Show
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
She ached for him. She longed for him. She missed the way he made her feel and how funny and smart and sexy she felt with him. And young. She missed the version of herself that she had left behind. At thirty-eight, Lizzie Quealy thinks she has things sorted: a happy relationship, a couple of gorgeous...
Salt
Selected Stories and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work.
This volume of Bruce Pascoe’s best and most celebrated stories and essays, collected here for the first time, traverses his long career and explores his...
by Mietta O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Mietta’s Italian Family Recipes presents over 185 recipes, covering antipasto, soups, risotto, pasta, fish, meat, pizza and desserts. Together they demonstrate the ways in which original Italian recipes can be re-interpreted to suit modern Australian life, ingredients and equipment. This new edition...
Botany Bay and the First Fleet
The Real Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Now in one definitive volume, Botany Bay and the First Fleet is a full, authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia.
In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay, on the east coast of New South Wales. In deciding on Botany Bay,...
by Don Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
For over forty years, Don Walker’s songwriting has captured what it is to be Australian. From Cold Chisel to Catfish, Tex, Don & Charlie to his solo work, as well as many other writing collaborations, Walker’s words are poetic, moving and incisive. Including classics such as “Khe Sanh”,...
by General Sir John Monash, GCMG, KCB
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Monash in his own words …
From the far-off days in 1914, when the call first came, until the last shot was fired, every day was filled with loathing, horror, and distress … Yet it had to be, and the thought always uppermost was the earnest prayer that Australia might forever be spared such...