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

We have five new books out this month — four books of exceptional nonfiction and one epic novel.

A Witness of Fact by Drew Rooke is the compelling story of South Australia’s disgraced former chief forensic pathologist and the legal scandals in which he became implicated; The Urge by Carl Erik Fisher is an authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction; ​in The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street master storyteller Pieter Waterdrinker blends history with memoir to create an ode to the divided soul of Russia and an unputdownable account of his own struggles with life, literature, and love; Made in China is a powerful debut memoir about labour and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant's journey to an American future by Anna Qu; and The Sisters Mao is a dazzling new novel from the author of Mrs Engels, Gavin McCrea, that is set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution and Europe’s sexual revolution.

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