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June 2024 new releases from Black Inc.
Out this month: Fragile Creatures, The Shortest History of Japan and Highway to Hell.
'The miracle of this book is the writer's tone: calm, patient and searching, steadfast in the face of unthinkable suffering' — Helen Garner, author of The Spare Room
A definitive new history of Japan, where ancient meets cutting-edge in unique and startling ways
"How many disasters does it take to wake people up to the fact that Australia's climate is becoming more extreme, with today's destruction set to be dwarfed by things to come? Do people realise that adapting to climate change won't be possible in some parts of the country?" Joëlle Gergis, Highway to Hell
About the authors
Khin Myint is an author based in Perth. His writing has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, Liminal magazine and The West Australian, among other publications. He was selected as one of ten participants in the Wheeler Centre's Next Chapter scheme in 2021.
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Lesley Downer is an author, journalist and historian. She has written four novels, The Shogun Quartet, set in the glittering world of nineteenth-century Japan. She has also written several works of non-fiction, including Geisha: The Remarkable Truth Behind the Fiction and The Brothers: The Hidden World of Japan's Richest Family, which was chosen as a New York Times Book of the Year. She lives in London with her husband, the author Arthur I. Miller.
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Dr Joëlle Gergis is an award-winning climate scientist and writer. She served as a lead author for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and is the author of Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia. Joëlle has also contributed chapters to The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg, and Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua.
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