Sean O'Beirne on Helen Garner is out now!

QE85 Not Waving, Drowing by Sarah Krasnostein is out now 

This year, we’re celebrating International Women’s Day with a selection of our boldest and most significant books. 

It began with a revolution and a dream to build a better society. By 1991, the hammer and sickle had fallen. ⁠Now, as we watch with horror as the events unfold in the Ukraine, a move spurned by Putin's authoritarian desire to restore Russia’s influence to the days of the Soviet Union, Sheila Fitzpatrick's The Shortest History of the Soviet Union provides detailed context to the history of the region. This is the is story of an empire made and an empire undone. 
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This first-ever collection of Australian poet Judith Wright’s nonfiction is a compelling portrait of a prescient voice on modern Australia.

The final, posthumous collection of poems from Australia’s unofficial poet laureate

The story of an empire made and an empire undone – and what emerged from the ashes – by one of the world’s leading authorities on Soviet Russia.

The tale of a town, and a nation

Edited by Eliza Hull, this is the first major anthology by parents with disabilities.