Black Inc imprint: 229 books
Under the Volcano
The Story of Bali
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Under the Volcano is dramatic history written by a master storyteller. Travellers come to Bali looking for paradise. Nehru called it "the morning of the world". Yet this small island has seen much bloodshed - from the ritual suicides of Balinese warriors fighting the Dutch, to the massacres...
Penguin and the Lane Brothers
The Untold Story of a Publishing Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
An intimate partnership of three brothers – Allen, Richard and John Lane – lay at the heart of Penguin Books, the twentieth century’s greatest publishing house. In a spirit of daring and creative opposition, the brothers issued quality books on a massive scale and at minuscule prices – and achieved...
The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely
Australia's Prime Ministers
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
Since 1901, thirty different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing.
Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office days before Wall Street crashed...
Twiggy
The High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forrest
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
“Not just a terrific read, but an important life to have on the national record.” – George Negus The swashbuckling West Australian entrepreneur Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest took on mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto at their own game – and won. In this unauthorised biography, Andrew Burrell...
The Prince
Faith, Abuse and George Pell
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
David Marr’s explosive bestseller, now expanded and updated.
The leading Catholic in the nation and spiritual adviser to Tony Abbott, Cardinal George Pell has played a key role in the greatest challenge to face his church for centuries: the scandal of child sex abuse by priests.
In...
Making Trouble
Essays Against the New Australian Complacency
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Robert Manne has twice been voted Australia’s leading public intellectual. This book will show you why. Making Trouble takes aim at the new Australian complacency. This is a book that will enlighten and challenge, as it traces the ideas and events that have recently changed the nation. It covers much...
The Luck of Politics
True Tales of Disaster and Outrageous Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
A delightful look at chance and outrageous fortune
In 1968, John Howard missed out on winning the state seat of Drummoyne by just 420 votes. Howard reflects: ‘I think back how fortunate I was to have lost.’ It left him free to stand for a safe federal seat in 1974 and become one of Australia’s...
by Robert Manne
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Are we living on borrowed time?
From climate change to the Murdoch empire, from refugees to WikiLeaks –Robert Manne applies his brilliant mind to the issues and people that shape our world. This provocative and informative book includes essays on Donald Trump’s links to Russia, Malcolm...
The Book of Paul
The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Presenting the one and only Mr Paul Keating – at his straight-shooting, scumbag-calling, merciless best.
Paul lets rip – on John Howard: “The little desiccated coconut is under pressure and he is attacking anything he can get his hands on.”
On Peter Costello: “The thing about...
Dog Days
Australia After the Boom
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
A blueprint for the nation after the boom.
Australians have just lived through a period of exceptional prosperity, but, says influential economist Ross Garnaut, the Dog Days are on their way. Are we ready for the challenges ahead?
In Dog Days, Garnaut explains how we got here, what...
The Sweet Spot
How Australia Made Its Own Luck - And Could Now Throw It All Away
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Winner of the 2012 Ashurst Business Literature Prize
This book will change the way you think about your country...
Australians now officially have the best living conditions in the world. Our country is both fair and free – and the only developed nation to have avoided a recession...
by Mungo MacCallum
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
We were a motley mob, we sans-culottes of Canberra …
In this vastly entertaining book, Mungo MacCallum captures the spirit of a nation-changing time. He portrays the Whitlam government’s key figures – from Gough and Margaret to Lionel Murphy, Bill Hayden and Jim Cairns – as well as...
The Eighties
The Decade That Transformed Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Winner of the ACT Book of the Year Award
It was the era of Hawke and Keating, Kylie and INXS, the America’s Cup and the Bicentenary. It was perhaps the most controversial decade in Australian history, with high-flying entrepreneurs booming and busting, torrid debates over land rights and...
In Search of Good Government
Great Expectations & Political Amnesia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
With the politics of rage and resentment dominating many Western nations, including Australia, Laura Tingle’s calm, perceptive analysis is more relevant than ever. What has happened to good government? Can Malcolm Turnbull apply the lessons of the past to put things right? When leaders surf the...