La Trobe University and Black Inc. yesterday celebrated  La Trobe University Press at an event held at the State Library of Victoria. 

Out this month: Quaint Deeds, The Family Law and Courting.

From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow, a hilarious and heart-warming memoir of teaching, treasure hunts and finding your own way in life.

Welcome to another instalment of Behind the Book. In this series, we chat to the people who bring you the books you love from Black Inc. – from the names you know to those you definitely don’t. This time, our subject is literary agent Margaret Gee.

A prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so … artificial

Read a chapter from The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch

In this interview, the bestselling author of Girt, True Girt and Girt Nation David Hunt speaks on his favourite stories from Australian history, his research, writing and procrastination processes, and the three books he thinks everyone should read. He’s as hilarious here as he is in all his books.

David Baker is a history and science writer who holds the world’s first PhD in Big History. He wrote the YouTube series Crash Course Big History, hosted by John and Hank Green in partnership with the Gates Big History Project, and The Shortest History of the World. His latest book is Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation. 

In this interview, David talks Big History, shocking revelations in his research about sex, and what this book means for the present and future of sex and relationships.

Killing for Country: A Family Story by David Marr is out now

Out this month: Killing for Country, Sex, Pivot to India and Faking It.