New South imprint: 178 books
First Vintage
Wine in Colonial New South Wales
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Exploring the forgotten history of the early Australian wine industry, this book reveals the challenges of choosing vine stock, the battles to protect against pests and diseases, and the innovation of new technologies that assisted small-scale growers, many of whom worked in wine regions that have...
Fuhrer for a Father
The Domestic Face of Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
‘I was written out of the family story. This book is my attempt to write myself, and my mother, back into it.'In this singular memoir, historian and biographer Jim Davidson writes about his fraught relationship with his authoritarian and controlling father, whose South African background and time...
On Track
Searching out the Bundian Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
On Track tells the story of John Blay’s long-distance search for the Bundian Way, an important Aboriginal pathway between Mt Kosciuszko and Twofold Bay near Eden on the New South Wales far south coast. The 360-kilometre route traverses some of the nation’s most remarkable landscapes, from the...
by Colin McPhedran
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
A new edition of this bestselling Australian classic. After the Japanese invasion of Burma in late 1941, 11-year-old Colin McPhedran was forced to flee his homeland on foot, across the steep Patkoi Mountain Ranges, to safety in India. Over a three-month period, Colin, along with his mother, elder...
Radio Astronomer
John Bolton and a New Window on the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
The leading Australian astronomer of his generation, John Bolton (1922–93), was born in Sheffield and educated at Cambridge University. After wartime service in the Royal Navy, he arrived in Sydney and joined the CSIRO Radiophysics Laboratory. In the late 1940s he discovered and identified the first...
by Peter Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In this landmark book, award-winning historian Peter Edwards skillfully unravels the complexities of the global Cold War, decolonization in Southeast Asia, and Australian domestic politics. The Vietnam War was Australia’s longest and most controversial military commitment of the 20th century, ending...
Australian Women War Reporters
Boer War to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The common picture of the war correspondent is a heroic, male reporter on the frontline, but women reporters have been more numerous and significant than we ever knew. Against the vehement opposition of newspaper editors, their male colleagues and military hierarchies, twentieth-century women journalists...
by Bob Carr
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Six years after vacating his position as the longest-serving premier of New South Wales, Bob Carr returned to politics in his dream job: as foreign minister of Australia and a senior federal cabinet minister. For 18 months he kept a diary documenting a whirl of high-stakes events on the world stage—the...
by Ned Manning
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In the baking heat of February 1973, wearing a purple body shirt and an expression of confidence that belied his nerves, Ned Manning faced a classroom of children in remote New South Wales. It was the start of many years of teaching, by turns exhilarating, nerve-fraying, and inspiring. Packed with...
Snake-Bitten
Eric Worrell and the Australian Reptile Park
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Based on extensive interviews with park staff and supporters, this intriguing biography traces the life of Eric Worrell, the original reptile man and naturalist who established the Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales. Depicting Worrell’s larger-than-life personality and his pioneer work with...
by Richard Neville
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Author, illustrator, printmaker, and natural historian John William Lewin was the first professional artist to arrive in Australia as a free man. Featuring more than 150 exquisite artworks, this record takes a fascinating look at Lewin’s life and work, his place in colonial Australian society, and...
River Dreams
The people and landscape of the Cooks River
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
River Dreams reveals the complex history of the Cooks River in south-eastern Sydney—a river renowned as Australia's most altered and polluted. While nineteenth century developers called it "improvement," the sugar mill, tanneries, and factories that lined the banks of Sydney's Cooks River...
The Idea of Art
Building an International Contemporary Art Collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Curator Anthony Bond began building a contemporary international art collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney in 1984. The collection now features many important artists, including Anselm Kiefer, Antony Gormley, Francis Bacon, Anish Kapoor, Mike Parr, Doris Salcedo and Janet Laurence....
Widening Minds
The University of New South Wales and the Education of Australia's Defence Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Since 1967 more than 25,000 students have graduated from UNSW after studying at Duntroon, HMAS Creswell, the Australian Defence Force Academy. Tom Frame examines the productive 50-year partnership between UNSW and the Australian Defence Force.In a candid exploration of the highs and lows of the longest...