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November 2024 new releases from Black Inc.
Out this month: Australian Gospel, Car Crash, The Shortest History of Ancient Rome, My Country and Minority Report
‘This is the new benchmark for the quintessential Australian epic. I lost count of how many times I laughed and cried.’ —Grace Tame
'Scarifying and unforgettable … A brave and unsettling account.' —Tim Winton
'King has the gift of clear, unpretentious exposition, and an instinctive narrative flair.' —The Guardian
‘This is a book of power and poetry, an essential documenting of this place and of the people, the ideas, the political and cultural transactions in it … Marr is an exceptional writer.’ —Jonathan Green
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About the authors
Lech Blaine is the author of the memoir Car Crash and the Quarterly Essays Top Blokes and Bad Cop. He is the 2023 Charles Perkins Centre writer in residence. His writing has appeared in Good Weekend, Griffith Review, The Guardian and The Monthly. His forthcoming book is Australian Gospel.
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Ross King is a renowned expert in the Italian Renaissance. He is the author of numerous bestselling and acclaimed books including The Bookseller of Florence, Brunelleschi's Dome, Machiavelli, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling and Leonardo and the Last Supper. He lives just outside Oxford.
Author photograph by Stephanie Tuttle
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David Marr’s books include Patrick White: A Life, The High Price of Heaven, Dark Victory (with Marian Wilkinson), Panic, My Country, Killing for Country and six Quarterly Essays. He has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly and The Guardian and been a reporter for Four Corners and presenter of Media Watch and Late Night Live.
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George Megalogenis has written three previous Quarterly Essays. His book The Australian Moment won the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction and the 2012 Walkley Award for Non-fiction. He is also the author of Faultlines, The Longest Decade, Australia's Second Chance and The Football Solution.
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