Black Inc imprint: 229 books
Stand and Deliver
Fifty Years of the National Press Club of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
If Australian politics and public policy is a war of ideas, the National Press Club is the battleground. For the past half-century, the NPC has been the epicentre of political and social debate in Australia. Leaders and opinion-makers have used its stage to launch leadership bids, rattle the cage of...
by Anna Goldsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
When classical pianist Anna Goldsworthy falls pregnant with her first child, she is both excited and anxious about what lies ahead. Should she indulge her craving for sausage after sixteen years without meat? Will her birth plan involve Enya or hypnosis, or neither? And just how worried should she...
by General Sir John Monash, GCMG, KCB
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Monash in his own words …
War Letters of General Monash
This collection of extraordinary, intimate letters from General Sir John Monash to his wife and daughter, records his experiences throughout World War I, from landing at Gallipoli to leading decisive victories on the Western Front....
Use Your Words
A Myth-Busting, No-Fear Approach to Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Want to write? Got a memoir, novel, screenplay or blog in your back drawer? Need to get ‘unstuck’? This is the magic pill you’ve been looking for.
In Use Your Words writer and comedian Catherine Deveny reveals the secrets that have made her ‘Gunnas’ Writing Masterclasses sell-out...
Australian Leader Eats Raw Onion Whole
Headlines from the Government That Broke Satire
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
The story of Team Australia in headlines. Inspired by the Onion, Evan Williams searched high and low for the real news headlines that capture the hilarious hypocrisy and absurdity of the Abbott years. What he found poses the question: was this Australia’s maddest ever government? You be the judge...
Rise of the Ruddbot
Observations from the Gallery
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
*Opposition leaders are like miniature piglets.
They look so sweet in the shop, don’t they? With their whiffling little pink noses and their eagerness to please; with their intelligent eyes and their loving natures and the sales assistant’s guarantee that they are fastidiously clean and,...
by Gwen Harwood
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
O could one write as one makes love
when all is given and nothing kept,
then language might put by at last
its coy elisions and inept
withdrawals, yield, and yielding cast
aside like useless clothes the crust
of worn and shabby use, and trust
its candour to the urgent mind
its beauty to the searching...
The Golden Bird
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Winner, 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards The Golden Bird brings together the best of Robert Adamson's work from the last four decades, as well as many superb new poems. Selected and arranged by the author, it provides an accessible introduction to Australia's foremost lyric poet and an insight...
by Clare Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
From the award-winning author of Nona & Me comes a stunning new novel about two teenagers separated by cultural differences, their parents’ expectations and twenty kilometres of barbed-wire fence.
Is it possible for two very different teenagers to fall in love despite high barbed-wire...
Reaching One Thousand
A Story of Love, Motherhood and Autism
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
‘Deeply touching but never sentimental, this remarkable book is more than a story of one boy and his mother. It’s a thoughtful meditation on the intricate workings of the human mind and heart.’ TONI JORDAN
When Ben is a baby, Rachel puts his quirks down to eccentricity. He likes to count...
From Seeds to Leaves
A Complete Guide to Growing Australian Shrubs and Trees from Seed
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
If you have an interest in the power of seeds to transform the earth, or in planting Australian native trees and shrubs on a small scale or large, From Seeds to Leaves is the book for you. It describes how to:
Collect your own fruit and nuts.
Extract, store and germinate the seeds in...
Scorcher
The Dirty Politics of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
This is the book that blows the whistle on the politics of global warming in Australia. Why have our political leaders been so slow to act? How have big corporations succeeded in preventing real action? Who are the "greenhouse mafia"? In Scorcher, Clive Hamilton reveals a shadow world of lobbyists and...
Blood and Guts
Dispatches from the Whale Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
I pull on my balaclava and step onto the bridge wing. It’s loud outside: I can hear the rumbles of nine vessels’ engines and the hiss of ten water cannons … Suddenly the bridge is full of refugees from the upper deck. They are blocking my view out the back windows, but their faces – afraid, excited,...
Project Republic
Plans and Arguments for a New Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
It’s time for some straight talk about Australia’s future. We need a head of state who shares a genuine affinity with our country. True independence does not require us to relinquish affection for the Queen or downplay excitement about a royal birth or wedding. Rather it is a chance for national...