We publish books that matter — narrative and literary nonfiction on important topics, and the best of local, international, and translated fiction.

This April, we are publishing seven enthralling books. They include a breakout voice in Australian fiction, new and republished cult favourites, fascinating histories, and two books updated for 2024.⁠

Set in suburbia, Miranda Darling’s Thunderhead is a black comedy about one woman’s struggle to be free. What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression is a classic manual on repression by revolutionary activist Victor Serge, now updated with a new introduction by Anthony Arnove. Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin (trans. Aneesa Abbas Higgins) is an intimate and beguiling account of four people learning to work with and trust one another, set against the backdrop of a cloudy ocean and a perilous circus act. 

In We Can Do Better, German political economist Maja Göpel (trans. David Shaw) delivers the encouragement and the tools we need to go into action and build the world we want to live in. Rebel Island by Jonathan Clements recounts the gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of Indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle — and the renewed threat of invasion by China.

In The Nameless Names, Scott Bennett deftly tells the story of the Anzac soldiers still listed as missing, laying bare the emotional toll inflicted upon families by the unanswered questions left behind. The Rare Metals War by Guillaume Pitron (trans. Bianca Jacobsohn) uncovers the reality of our lavish and ambitious environmental quest that involves risks as formidable as those it seeks to resolve; now updated for a 2024 context.

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