University Of Wales Press: 420 books
Beyond Combat
Australian military activity away from the battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
"Even a military that is solely dedicated to preparing for war creates, simply by existing, a suite of responsibilities that has very little to do with combat."––Tristan Moss and Tom Richardson
There is a lot more to military life than war. From an army nurse's letters home during...
Stranger Thingies
From Felafel to Now
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
John Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. He has written a thousand stories, some true, some not so much. These are the best ones and they're so good, and so funny, there has been no barrel-scraping involved. Really, this book could have been much longer.The pieces contained within...
Valiant for Truth
The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Chester Wilmot (1911–1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic struggle along the famed Kokoda Track, the momentous...
Up Came a Squatter
Niel Black of Glenormiston, 1839–1880
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Niel Black, a Scot from Argyllshire, arrived in Melbourne in September intending to make his fortune. Ambitious and determined, Black became one of the most successful and energetic squatters in the Western District of Victoria – a livestock breeder and a Member of the Legislative Council. He was...
Gay Sydney
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Garry Wotherspoon's Gay Sydney: A History is an updated version of his 1991 classic, City of the Plain: History of a Gay Sub-culture, written in the midst of the AIDS crisis. In this vivid book Wotherspoon traces the shifts that have occurred since then, including majority support for marriage equality...
by Vicken Babkenian, Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide massacres. April 24, 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked the beginning of what became...
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...
Darling Mother, Darling Son
The Letters of Leslie Walford and Dora Byrne, 1929-1972
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
"However far away from you I am, you are the real centre of my life ..." —Leslie Walford
For much of the twentieth century the names Leslie Walford and Dora Byrne were synonymous with style and glamour. Walford was the sophisticated, go-to interior designer for Sydney society. His mother,...
Green Bans, Red Union
The Saving of a City
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
At the height of the building boom in the 1970s, a remarkable campaign stopped billions of dollars worth of indiscriminate development that was turning Australian cities into concrete jungles. Enraging employers and politicians but delighting many in the wider community, the members of the NSW Builders...
The Secret Life of Whales
A Marine Biologist Reveals All
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Marine biologist Micheline Jenner discovered humpback breeding grounds off the Kimberley coast, has swum through orange golfball-sized pygmy blue whale poo to uncover a feeding spot, and is one of very few people to witness a humpback whale giving birth. In The Secret Life of Whales she reveals the...
by Jo Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't match. Good writing about science can be moving, funny, exhilarating or poetic, but it will always be honest and rigorous about the research that underlies...
An Australian Band of Brothers
Don Company, Second 43rd Battalion, 9th Division
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
This riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II. No ordinary soldiers, they were members of Don Company of the Second 43rd Battalion, part of the famous 9th Australian Division, which sustained more...
by Tim Dunlop
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Even as the robots gather on the near horizon this book argues we have choices about the manner in which we greet them. A world without work as we know it could be a good thing.The landscape of work is changing right in front of us, from Uber, Airbnb and the new share economy to automated vehicles,...
Woolloomooloo
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
It was no wonder I was glad to be down in Woolloomooloo. The Old Fitzroy reminded me of how Kings Cross used to be. Told in his vivid and entertaining style, Louis Nowra writes Woolloomooloo's biography, drink in hand, from the vantage point of the Old Fitzroy Hotel, the cosy, eccentric and wonderful...