NewSouth sells Gordon-Smith debut to US, UK
NewSouth has sold North American rights to Australian academic Eleanor Gordon-Smith’s forthcoming debut Stop Being Reasonable to PublicAffairs. The nonfiction book (previously titled What Makes You So Sure You’re Not...
Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2018 shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘Amid fear and guns, polio finds a refuge’ (Jo Chandler, Undark)...
NewSouth to publish official history of Australian operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor
The Australian War Memorial (AWM) has awarded a tender to NewSouth Publishing to publish The Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq & Afghanistan and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East...
Chandler wins 2014 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing
Jo Chandler has won this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her piece ‘TB and Me: A Medical Souvenir’, first published in the Global Mail.Chandler will receive a...
Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2014 shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘Eleven Grams of Trouble’ by Frank Bowden (Inside Story) ‘TB and...
Watson wins Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing
Fred Watson has won the 2013 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for his piece ‘Here Come the Ubernerds: Planets, Pluto and Prague’, published in his book Star-Craving Mad:...
Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2013 shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces of writing are: ‘The Last Laughing Death’ by Jo Chandler (The Global...
Read ahead: Preview of 2014 titles
Kate Blackwood rounds up publishers’ top picks for 2014. Fiction Maxine Beneba Clarke’s debut short-story collection is Hodder and Headline sales and marketing director Justin Ractliffe’s top pick for 2014....
Talkback: The book industry under the new government
What do you think will happen to the Australian book industry under the new government? Books+Publishing asked three publishers. Martin Hughes, publisher, Affirm Press Apart from a clutch of new books by...
NewSouth book wins at Heritage Awards
Designer Suburbs: Architects and Affordable Homes in Australia by Judith O’Callaghan and Charles Pickett (NewSouth) has won the Education, Interpretation and Community Engagement category of this year’s New South Wales National Trust Heritage...
McCredie joins NSW Writers’ Centre
Jane McCredie has joined the New South Wales Writers’ Centre in the role of executive director. McCredie, who has worked as a publisher for NewSouth Books for the past two...
McCredie joins NSW Writers’ Centre
The New South Wales Writers’ Centre has announced that author and former NewSouth Books publisher Jane McCredie has joined the centre in the role of executive director. McCredie began in the...
Chandler wins inaugural Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing
Jo Chandler has won the inaugural Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her piece ‘Storm front’, published in her book Feeling the Heat (MUP). Chandler has won a...
UNSW Press celebrates 50 years
University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press has celebrated 50 years in publishing this year. ‘Every day we publish a new book is worth a celebration,’ chief executive Kathy Bail...
NewSouth launches ‘QUICKeS’ ebook series
NewSouth Publishing has launched a new series of ‘short, sharp essays you can read on any electric device’, says publicist Matt Howard. The series, called QUICKeS, ‘are shorter than a...
Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing shortlist announced
The shortlist for the inaugural Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces of writing are: ‘Storm front’ by Jo Chandler (Feeling the Heat, MUP)...
The Best Australian Business Writing 2012 (ed by Andrew Cornell, NewSouth)
Good business writing gives you the facts and the figures, the movers and shakers, the inside scoop. And it helps you make sense of all these things. Great business writing,...
Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery (Kerry Greenwood, NewSouth)
This book is part true crime, part memoir, part biography and part fiction, with touches of gentle humour. All up it is an engaging look at a mystery that has...
Alice Springs (Eleanor Hogan, NewSouth)
This is no grey nomad’s guide to the red centre. In NewSouth’s latest city book, author Eleanor Hogan writes about her experiences living and working in the Aboriginal health services...
UNSW Press rebrands publishing division
University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press has rebranded its publishing division. The publishing division of UNSW Press will now be known as NewSouth Publishing and all new titles from July...