Black Inc imprint: 229 books
Econobabble
How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Economics is like a tyre lever: it can be used to solve a problem, or to beat someone over the head …
What is econobabble? We hear it every day, when public figures and commentators use incomprehensible economic jargon to dress up their self-interest as the national interest, to make the...
Generation Less
How Australia is Cheating the Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
A country that makes no room for the young is a country that will forfeit a fair future. This must not become Australia.
Today’s young Australians are the first generation since the Great Depression to be worse off than their parents. And so, just as we have seen the gap between rich and...
An Economy is Not a Society
Winners and Losers in the New Australia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In modern Australia, productivity is all that matters, our leaders tell us. Economic growth above all else. But is this really what we, the people, want? Does it make our lives and our communities better?
If the high priests of economics want the credit for Australia’s economic growth over...
Kattertonia
The Wit and Wisdom of Bob Katter
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
What's going on under that hat? In these pages we life the brim and uncover the words of a true-blue Aussie who shoots from the hip. Bob Katter doesn't hold back when it comes to himself: 'There is a rage in my soul, a hatred in my soul.' Far-north Queensland: 'It is a magic land and we could support...
Blue Collar Frayed
Working Men in Tomorrow’s Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
‘I remember with incredible clarity the question that rang through his words and hung in the air between us, the query that hurt my head and heart as his baggy eyes held mine: where does someone like me fit, now?’
Jennifer Rayner knows a thing or two about blue-collar blokes: her brother,...
I Am Melba
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2009
The story of an Australian girl who defied convention and became the most famous singer of her era.
Growing up in Melbourne, Nellie Mitchell dreamed of fame, but her devout father disapproved. When a chance arose to go to Paris, she trusted in her musical talent and hoped for a lucky break.
Within...
Ghost Wife
A Memoir of Love and Defiance
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Michelle Dicinoski has found the love of her life, and now she just wants to get married and live happily ever after. The only problem is, she’s in love with an American woman, Heather, and neither Australia nor America recognises same-sex marriage. What to do when love and the law collide? For...
by Andrew Ford
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
In this evocative and moving book, composer and broadcaster Andrew Ford shares the vivid musical experiences – good, bad and occasionally hilarious – that have shaped his life.
Ford’s musical journey has traversed genres and continents, and his loves are broad and deep. The Memory of...
The Art of Time Travel
Historians and Their Craft
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us. The art of time travel is to maintain critical poise and grace in this dizzy space.
In this landmark book, eminent historian and award-winning author Tom Griffiths...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
These stories are breath-takers, the ones which render nothing more important than discovering what happens next. —Sonya Hartnett
The Best Australian Stories 2012 is the country’s premier annual collection of short fiction. This year sees Sonya Hartnett select thirty-two remarkable stories...
The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll
Collected Music Writings 2005-09
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Sometimes I play a game in my head: name the five best American rock bands of the ’60s. My list goes: The Velvet Underground, The Byrds, The Beach Boys, The Doors, and then I stall on the fifth. Creedence? The Band – although they’re mostly Canadian. Simon and Garfunkel? Jefferson Airplane?...
Mother of Rock
The Lillian Roxon Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
From the pubs of the Sydney Push to New York’s legendary nightclubs, Lillian Roxon set the pace for an era that changed the world. Audacious, independent and fiercely intelligent, by eighteen she was cutting her writing teeth in the colourful world of Sydney tabloid journalism. She moved to New York...
Crossing the Line
Australia’s Secret History in the Timor Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth.
With explosive new research and access to never-before- seen documents, Kim McGrath tells the story of Australia’s secret agenda in the Timor Sea, exposing the ruthlessness of successive governments....
Political Animal
The Making of Tony Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Winner of the 2013 John Button Prize The essential work on Tony Abbott is now an expanded, updated short book – and a crucial election-year companion. Australians want to know: what kind of man is Tony Abbott, and how would he perform as prime minister? In this dramatic portrait, David Marr shows...