Take a literary journey to the interior with these 12 must-read Australian books, representing a cross section of Australian literature, meditating on landscape, history and what makes us Australian.

For a book that challenges and deepens your understanding of Australia I would turn to Clare Wright’s new, compelling history of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions, Ṉäku Dhäruk. This is pacy ...

Author and academic Nick Dyrenfurth’s new book, Mateship: A Very Australian History, explores both the contradictions and virtues of the term – what he calls Australia’s “genesis story”.

Add these to your reading list: throughout the 20th century, thousands of book titles were banned in Australia for being ‘obscene’. That was until the publishing industry became fed up. Until the ...

Between 1970 and 1975, three books by Australian authors had a remarkable impact not only at home but around the world. Singer is now a professor of philosophy at Princeton but visits Australia ...

As Lake observes, “it has a history here that ... on all the face of the earth” (KJV). Secular Australian bookshops should give this book the prominence it deserves.

He is particularly interested in the history of ownership of the preloved books that he stocks. This led him to assemble for the first time the lives and details of more than 100 Australian book ...

Are the finest guides to Australian history always those written by historians? Asked to name the best history books on Australia, I find my mind wanders to works that are not history proper. Is this ...

The book relies on economic concepts to examine the history of centuries and continents ... and even more since Australia’s 1990s downturn. He underlined that monetary policy has broader ...

or a good book? We asked some of our leading historians to choose an essential Australia Day read. Here are the works they consider crucial to understanding our culture and history. Why Warriors ...

We asked some of our leading historians to choose an essential Australia Day read. Here are the works they consider crucial to understanding our culture and history. When asked to nominate a book ...