Award-Winning Titles

An Unwinnable War: Australia in Afghanistan [PB] Available
Karen Middleton
Finalist for the 2011 Walkley Book Award
Shortlisted for the 2011 Manning Clark House National Cultural Award

An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark [HB] Available
Mark McKenna
Winner of the Non-Fiction Book award at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
Winner of the Non-Fiction Book award at the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards
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hortlisted CAL Waverly Library Awards
Finalist for the 2011 Walkley Book awards
Shortlisted for the 2011 Manning Clark House National Cultural Award

Notebooks [PB] Available
Betty Churcher
Shortlisted for the 2011 Manning Clark House National Cultural Award

Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting [PB] Available
Fay Anderson and Richard Trembath
Finalist for the 2011 Walkley Book Awards

The Politics of Suffering (New Edition): Indigenous Australia and the end of the liberal consensus [PB] Available
Peter Sutton
Winner of the Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards 2009
Winner of The John Button Prize 2010

Seasons in My House and Garden [PB] Available
Holly Kerr Forsyth
Winner HMAA book Laurel award

The Party Thieves: The real story of the 2010 election [PB] Available
Barrie Cassidy
Finalist for the 2011 Walkley Book Awards

My Father’s Daughter: Memories of an Australian Childhood [PB] Available
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Shortlisted for State Library of NSW National Biography Award 2011

The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the end of the liberal consensus [PB] Available
Peter Sutton
Winner of the Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards 2009
Winner of The John Button Prize 2010

The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the end of the liberal consensus [EPUB] Available
Peter Sutton
Winner of the Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards 2009
Winner of The John Button Prize 2010

The West and the Map of the World [HB] Available
Matthew Richardson
Shortlisted for 59th Annual Book Design Awards APA 2011

Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs [HB] Available
Margaret Simons and Malcolm Fraser
Shortlisted for the Douglas Stewert Prize, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2011

Beersheba: A Journey through Australia’s Forgotten War [PB] Available
Paul Daley
Special Mention, Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards 2009
Shortlisted for the 2010-2011 Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History

The Unknown Nation: Australia After Empire [PB] Available
James Curran and Stuart Ward
Shorlisted for the 2010-2011 Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History

The River: A Journey through the Murray-Darling Basin [PB] Available
Chris Hammer
Shortlisted for the 2011 Manning Clark House National Cultural Award

The March of Patriots: The Struggle for Modern Australia [HB] Available
Paul Kelly
Shortlisted for the Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards 2009
Shortlisted for the CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature 2010 (The Nib)

My Israel Question (Third Edition), Third edition [PB] Available
Antony Loewenstein
Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2007

My Israel Question (Third Edition), Third edition [EPUB] Available
Antony Loewenstein
Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2007

Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History [PB] Available
Jenny Hocking
Shortlisted for the Magarey Medal for Biography (2010)

Killing: Misadventures in Violence [PB] Available
Jeff Sparrow
Shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2009

Judy Watson: Blood Language [PB] Available
Judy Watson and Louise Martin-Chew
Special Mention, Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards 2009

Possession: Batman’s Treaty and the Matter of History [HB] Available
Bain Attwood
Winner of the NSW Premier’s History Awards 2010

The Mother of Mohammed: An Australian Woman’s Extraordinary Journey into Jihad [PB] Available
Sally Neighbour
Shortlisted for the 2009 Walkley Awards (1st Round) (2009)

Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History [HB] Available
Jenny Hocking
Shortlisted for the PM’s Literary Awards (2009)
Shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year (2009)
Longlisted for the 2009 Walkley Awards (1st Round) (2009)

The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal in Australia [PB] Available
Gideon Haigh
Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Awards (2009)

Blood and Tinsel: A Memoir [HB] Available
Jim Sharman
Shortlisted for the APA Annual Book Design Awards (2009)

Good Things Came from Glass: A History of Glass Making in Australia 1812—1987 [PB] Available
Mal Harrop
Shortlisted for the Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature, 2008.

Mr Felton’s Bequests, New edition [HB] Available
John Poynter
Winner Best Print/Publication, Victorian Community History Awards 2004

A Remarkable Friendship: Vincent Van Gogh and John Peter Russell [HB] Available
Ann Galbally
Shortlisted for the Magarey Medal for Biography

A Family History of Smoking [PB] Available
Andrew Riemer
Shortlisted for the 2008 Age Book of the Year in the Non-fiction category

A Family History of Smoking [EPUB] Available
Andrew Riemer
Shortlisted for the 2008 Age Book of the Year in the Non-fiction category

Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape, Third Edition [PB] Available
K. S. Inglis
The Age Book of the Year 1999
The Age Book of the Year Non-Fiction Prize 1999
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, History Prize 1999
FAW Literature Award 1998
Ernest Scott History Prize 1999
Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Award, Individual Prize 1999

Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes [PB] Available
Danielle Clode
Winner of the 2007 Victorian Premier's Nettie Palmer Prize

Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality [PB] Available
Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds
Winner 2008 Queensland Premier’s Literary Award in the History Book category
Winner 2009 Ernest Scott Prize for the most distinguished contribution to the History of Australia or New Zealand.
Joint winner of the PM’s Literary Awards (2009)

My Israel Question, Second edition [PB] Available
Antony Loewenstein
Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2007

Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur [PB] Available
Ben Kiernan
Blood and Soil won the 2008 gold medal for the best book in the History category, awarded by the Independent Publishers association (Los Angeles, May 30, 2008).

Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy [PB] Available
Peter Cochrane
Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History 2007
The Age Book of the Year 2007
The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2007

John Winston Howard: The Biography [HB] Available
Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen
Shortlised for the 2008 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards in the Literary Work Advancing Public Debate (Harry Williams Award) category

Modernism and Australia: Documents on Art, Design and Architecture 1917-1967 [PB] Available
Ann Stephen, Andrew McNamara, Philip Goad (eds)
Winner of the 2007 AAANZ Power Institute Prize for Best Book

Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People, Second edition [PB] Available
Judith Brett
1993 Ernest Scott prize
1993 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Australian Studies
Joint winner of the 1993 NSW Premier’s Prize for Nonfiction

Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks [PB] Available
Leigh Sales
Winner of the 2007 George Munster Award for Independent Journalism
Shortlisted for the 2007 Walkley Award
Shortlisted for the 2008 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards in the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction category

Homes in the Sky: Apartment Living in Australia [HB] Available
Dr Charles Pickett and Caroline Butler-Bowdon
Winner at the Energy Australia National Trust Heritage Awards 2008, in the Interpretation and Presentation - Corporate & Government Category.
Bates Smart State Award for Architecture in the Media

The Boyds: A Family Biography [PB] Available
Brenda Niall
Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2002
Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2002
Shortlisted for the National Biography Award 2003

Life Class: The Education of a Biographer [HB] Available
Brenda Niall
shortlisted for the 2007 Victorian Premier's Nettie Palmer Prize

Communism: A Love Story [PB] Available
Jeff Sparrow
Shortlisted for the 2007 Colin Roderick Award

Pistols! Treason! Murder!: The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy [PB] Available
Jonathan Walker
shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Awards 2007 in the General History category
Shortlised for the 2008 VIC Premier’s Literary Awards in the First Book of History category

Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes [HB] Available
Danielle Clode
Winner of the 2007 Victorian Premier's Nettie Palmer Prize

Parliament in the Twenty-first Century: Institutional Reform and Emerging Roles, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
John Halligan, Robin Miller and John Power
Winner of the Richard Baker Senate Prize 2007.

Papunya: A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement [HB] Available
Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon
2005 Queensland Premier’s Non-Fiction Book Award

The Wayward Tourist: Mark Twain’s Adventures in Australia [HB] Available
Mark Twain
2007 APA Book Design Awards Shortlist: Best Designed Non-fiction book (text)

Botanical Riches: Stories of Botanical Exploration [HB] Available
Richard Aitken
2007 APA Book Design Awards Shortlist: Best Designed Non-fiction book (illustrated)

Australia’s Quarter Acre: The Story of the Ordinary Suburban Garden [HB] Available
Peter Timms
Shortlisted for the 2007 Tasmania Book Prize for the Best Book by a Tasmanian in any genre

Crème de la Phlegm: Unforgettable Australian Reviews [HB] Available
Angela Bennie
2007 APA Book Design Awards Shortlist: Best Designed Non-fiction book (text)

François Péron—An Impetuous Life: Naturalist and Voyager [HB] Available
Edward Duyker
Winner of the 2007 Frank Broeze Maritime History Prize

The Archibald Paradox: A Strange Case of Authorship, Second Edition [PB] Available
Sylvia Lawson
Winner, NSW Premier's Award for Non-Fiction 1984
Winner, Wilke Award 1984
Winner, Walter McCrae Russell Award (Association for the Study of Australian Literature) 1984

The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image [PB] Available
James Curran
Shortlisted for the 2004 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Prize for a First Book of History.

Sheep and the Australian Cinema, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Deb Verhoeven
Shortlisted for the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand (FHAANZ) Research and Writing Awards.

Sheep and the Australian Cinema, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Deb Verhoeven
Shortlisted for the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand (FHAANZ) Research and Writing Awards.

On Looking at Looking: The Art and Politics of Ian Burn [HB] Available
Ann Stephen
Shorlisted for the 2007 AAANZ Power Institute Prize for Best Book

The Latham Diaries [HB] Available
Mark Latham
Shortlisted for two ABA awards:
Australian General Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2006
Australian Marketing Campaign of the Year 2006

The Beginner’s Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science [HB] Available
Peter Doherty
2007: Shortlist for the National Biography Awards

Traumascapes: The power and fate of places transformed by tragedy [PB] Available
Maria Tumarkin
Shortlisted for the 2006 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards' Prize for a First Book of History.

Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape, Second Edition [PB] Available
K. S. Inglis
The Age Book of the Year 1999
The Age Book of the Year Non-Fiction Prize 1999
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, History Prize 1999
FAW Literature Award 1998
Ernest Scott History Prize 1999
Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Award, Individual Prize 1999

The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia [HB] Available
Warwick Anderson
co-winner of the Australian Historical Association’s WK Hancock Prize, 2004.

Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection [PB C-format] Available
Helen MacDonald
Winner: Victorian Premier's Literary Award for a First Book of History, 2006
Shortlisted for the 2006 Ernest Scott prize: The prize, which is awarded annually, is for a 'distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand'.

The Enduring Rip: A History of Queenscliffe [PB] Available
Barry Hill
Winner - Victorian Community History Awards - The Best Print/Publication

Citizen Labillardiere [PB] Available
Edward Duyker
Winner of the 2004 NSW Premier's History Awards

Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank [PB] Available
Andrew Beattie and Paul R. Ehrlich
Winner of the 2001 National Outdoor Book Award in the Nature and Environment Category

The Art of War [PB] Available
Betty Churcher
Script for the SBS series (which the book is based on) won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for best screenplay 2005

The Artificial Horizon: Imagining the Blue Mountains [PB] Available
Martin Thomas
Winner of The Gleebooks Prize, 2004 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
Shortlisted for the Award for Non-Fiction, 2004 Festival Awards for Literature
Shortlisted for the Award for Innovation in Writing, 2004 Festival Awards for Literature

A New City: Photographs of Melbourne’s Land Boom [HB] Available
Ian Morrison (ed.)
Commendation, Victorian Community History Awards 2004

Robin Boyd: A Life [PB] Available
Geoffrey Serle
The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award 1996

The History Wars, Second Edition [PB] Available
Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark
Winner of the 2004 QLD Premiers Harry Williams Award - Literary Work Advancing Public Debate.

King of the Australian Coast: The Voyages of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathurst 1817–1822, Paperback Edition [PB] Reissued
Marsden Hordern
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, General History Prize 1998

The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image [PB] Available
James Curran
Shortlisted for the 2004 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Prize for a First Book of History.

Sand in Our Souls: The Beach in Australian History [PB] Available
Leone Huntsman
Independent Scholars Assocation of Australia Book Prize 2002
Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize 2002

Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia’s Female Publicans [PB] Available
Clare Wright
Commendation, Victorian Community History Awards 2004
Special Mention, Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Awards 2003

Hill End: An Historic Australian Goldfields Landscape [PB] Available
Alan Mayne
Special Mention, Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Awards 2003

The Boyds: A Family Biography [PB] Available
Brenda Niall
Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2002
Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2002
Shortlisted for the National Biography Award 2003
These were awarded to the hardback edition of this book.

Charles Conder: The Last Bohemian [PB] Available
Ann Galbally
The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2003

Steel Town: The Making and Breaking of Port Kembla [HB] Available
Erik Eklund
Winner of 2003 NSW Premier's History Awards—Community and Regional History Prize.

The Colonial Earth, New Paperback Edition [PB] Available
Tim Bonyhady
NSW Premier’s History Prize 2001
Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2001
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2001
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year 2001

The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn, and the Myth of the Frontier [HB] Available
Brigid Hains
Shortlisted for 2003 NSW Premier's History Awards—Australian History Prize

Mariners Are Warned!: John Lort Stokes and H.M.S. Beagle in Australia 1837–1843, paperback Edition [PB] Available
Marsden Hordern
Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, A. A. Phillips Prize for Australian Studies 1989
The Age Book of the Year Award 1989
Braille Book of the Year 1990
Maritime History Prize 1992

The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia [PB] Available
Warwick Anderson
Winner of the Australian Historical Association W.K. Hancock Prize 2004

Blood, Bones and Spirit: Aboriginal Christianity in an East Kimberley Town [PB] Available
Heather McDonald
AIATSIS Stanner Award 2002

Digging People Up for Coal: A History of Yallourn [PB] Available
Meredith Fletcher
Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s History Awards, Community and Regional History Prize 2002

The Flight of the Emu: A Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901–2001 [HB] Available
Libby Robin
Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2003: Science Writing

Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children’s Literature [PB] Available
Clare Bradford
Winner of Children's Literature Association Book Award, US
International Research Society of Children's Literature (IRSCL) Award 2003

The Colonial Earth [HB] Available
Tim Bonyhady
NSW Premier’s History Prize 2001
Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2001
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2001
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year 2001

Sex and Suffering: Women’s Health and a Women’s Hospital, Paperback Edition [PB] Available
Janet McCalman
Victorian Community and Local History Awards, Best Publication 1999
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year Award, Non-Fiction 1999
Shortlisted for NSW Premier’s History Awards, Community and Regional History Prize 1999

H.M. Bark Endeavour: Her Place in Australian History [HB] Refer MUP
Ray Parkin
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Book of the Year 1999
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction 1999

A Forester’s Log: The Story of John La Gerche and the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest 1882–1897 [HB] Available
Angela Taylor
Victorian Community and Local History Awards 1999

Untold Stories: Memories and Lives of Victorian Kooris [PB] Available
Jan Critchett
Victorian Community and Local History Awards 1999

A Life on the Ocean Wave: The Journals of Captain George Bayly 1824–1844 [HB] Available
Edited by Pamela Statham and Rica Erickson
Shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Literary Awards, Historical and Critical Studies Prize 1998

Nature’s Argonaut: Daniel Solander 1733–1782 [HB] Available
Edward Duyker
Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s History Awards, General History Prize 1999

The Henty Journals: A Record of Farming, Whaling and Shipping in Portland Bay, 1834–1839 [HB] Available
Edited by Lynnette Peel
Australian Society of Indexers Medal 1996

Performances [PB] Available
Greg Dening
Shortlisted for the National Book Council ‘Banjo’ Awards 1997

Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, painter, diarist, pioneer [PB] Available
Brenda Niall
Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction 1995
FAW Australian Unity Award 1994
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year 1994

A History for a Nation: Ernest Scott and the Making of Australian History [PB] Available
Stuart Macintyre
Highly commended in the Ernest Scott History Prize 1997

The Insects of Australia: A Textbook for Students and Research Workers, Volume 2 [HB] Available
CSIRO
Royal Zoological Society of NSW Whitley Award 1992
Australian Society of Indexers Medal 1992

The Insects of Australia: A Textbook for Students and Research Workers, Volume 1 [HB] Available
CSIRO
Royal Zoological Society of NSW Whitley Award 1992
Australian Society of Indexers Medal 1992

The Insects of Australia: A Textbook for Students and Research Workers, 2 Volume Set [HB] Available
CSIRO
Royal Zoological Society of NSW Whitley Award 1992
Australian Society of Indexers Medal 1992

Lucky City: The First Generation at Ballarat 1851–1901 [HB] Available
Weston Bate
FAW Local History Award 1978

A History of Australia: The Earth Abideth for Ever 1851–1888, Volume 4 [HB] Available
Manning Clark
NSW Premier’s Literary Award 1979
FAW Wilke Award 1981

A History of Australia: The Beginning of an Australian Civilization 1824–1851, Volume 3 [HB] Available
Manning Clark
The Age Book of the Year 1974