Hybrid Publishers: 63 books
Trickle-Down Censorship
An Outsider's Account of Working Inside China's Censorship Regime
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
A Westerner's inside look into the workings of Chinese society.
For six years, from 2005 to 2011, Australian JFK Miller worked in Shanghai for English-language publications censored by state publishers under the aegis of the Chinese Communist Party. In this wry memoir, he offers a view of that...
by John Tully
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Ireland, early 1800s. The Napoleonic Wars have ended, leaving an already disjointed country in peril. Maurice O'Dwyer, a young Irishman, considers the lifeless body of an English tithe-collector slain under a rain-filled sky. From that moment it seems his fate is sealed: he and his young simpleton...
by Jan Wallace Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
All Souls' Day - the Day of the Dead, 1941. Florence, city of strife. It is Hitler's state visit to Florence and the last of the good times for Mussolini. From now on, he and his lover Clara will cling more closely together, ever more dependent upon each other as their country spirals into civil war...
Ahad Ha-am
The Zionism of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
A classic text on Zionism for the 21st Century.
Since its initial publication in 1997, 'Ahad Ha-am: The Zionism of the Future' has become the definitive and standard study of one of Zionism's most towering and influential figures. The republication of this classic text as an e-book is a cause for...
People of the Boot
The Triumphs and Tragedy of Australian Jews in Sport
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Jews have made a profound on-field and off-field contribution to just about every sport in Australia. Their feats have encompassed world championships, AFL premierships, Olympic selection and medals. Their legacies in sports administration and business are many: saved sporting codes, reinvigorated...
Selective Memory
A Life in Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This is a memoir about the Australian film industry, with inside stories about how films are funded and made, and the problems facing a producer. Sue met and worked with some unforgettable characters, including Sidney Nolan, George Johnston and Charmian Clift, Frank Thring, John Meillon, Graham Kennedy,...
Drive Around the World
One Family, One Car, One Year, One Planet
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
We've driven around Australia, how about we drive around the world?'
And with this one fanciful remark, the seeds were sown for what would become a worldwide adventure for one Melbourne family.
Fuelled by itchy feet and a profound desire to expand their family's horizons, after five years of meticulous...
by Anna Rosner Blay
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
From the busy marketplaces of pre-war Krakow, Poland, to the horror of the Holocaust and the haven of Schindler's factory, to the apparent peace and safety of a suburban backyard in Melbourne, Australia, this is the story of two sisters who miraculously survived.
Their extraordinary life stories...
Fighting the Kaiserreich
Australia's Epic Within the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book portrays a modern epic - of an army that sailed across the world to fight a war. Its struggle with the Kaiserreich (German empire) became the most formidable campaign Australian troops have ever fought. By the time Monash's soldiers broke through the Hindenburg Line, their achievement and...
The Real George Freeman
Thief, race-fixer, standover man and underworld crim
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Sin City, 1970s. Crooked cops take the cream off the top of crime profits. Judges frequent illegal gambling dens. The winners of races are known before the horses have run. Heroin floods the streets, And the fight for the control of the trade sees men being gunned down left and right. This is the...
Stepladder to Hindsight
An Almost Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Stepladder to Hindsight is about a fascinating man who has reached a turning point in his life and looks back. In this work, renowned academic and life-writer Richard Freadman turns the pen on himself, producing an immensely compelling narrative of his life.
Elegant and richly self-aware, Stepladder...
Not Welcome
A Dunera Boy's escape from Nazi oppression to eventual freedom in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
A teenage boy, an only child, is forced to leave his German homeland and loving family. For the first time in his life he finds himself utterly alone and ill-prepared for what lies ahead. Armed only with a small suitcase, a ten-shilling note and his mother's advice echoing in his ears - 'Learn to...
Inner Weather
Learning From Depression
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A lucid, honest and deeply searching account of the author's struggle to come to terms with anxiety and depression.
Jenny Stewart shows how, over many years, with considerable help from others, she was able gradually to take control of her depression, not by focusing on its causes, but by understanding...
by Ibtihal Samarayi
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
An educated girl from a prosperous family in Iraq finds her world turned upside down by circumstances arising from the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein.
With her young husband she flees first to Iran, then Turkey, experiencing the humiliation, discomfort and powerlessness of being a refugee....