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June new releases

This month, we are publishing four exciting new books. We have a searing examination of Israel’s technological exports, a personal essay collection exploring autism in women, and two sweeping historical epics — one that delves into early colonial North America and the other, 1900s Korea.

The Palestine Laboratory is a global investigation that uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment of Israel’s occupation-enforcing technologies. The Autists is an incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author receiving her own diagnosis at 42.  Beginning in the early 1600s, The East Indian is a Dickensian-style yarn about family, friendship, and finding oneself in the seeds of a new world. A masterpiece thirty years in the making, Mater 2–10 is an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean history from the International Booker–nominated Hwang Sok-yong.

Find out more about our June books below. For a chance to win a copy, head to our Facebook or Instagram where you can let us know what interests you and why.

The Palestine Laboratory

WINNER OF THE 2023 WALKLEY BOOK AWARD
WINNER OF PEOPLE’S CHOICE AT THE VICTORIAN PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARDS 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 ABIA SOCIAL IMPACT BOOK OF THE YEAR

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel’s occupation-enforcing technologies.

For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an ‘enemy’ population, the Palestinians. It’s here that they have perfected the architecture of control, using the occupied Palestinian…

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The Autists

An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author’s own diagnosis.

Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as a condition found mostly in boys. Even in our time, autistic girls and women have largely remained invisible. When portrayed in popular culture, women on the spectrum often appear simply as copies of their male counterparts — talented and socially awkward.

Yet autistic women exist, and always have. They are varied in their interests and in their experiences. Autism may be relatively new as a term and a diagnosis, but…

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The East Indian

A NEW YORK TIMES 2023 SUMMER READ

Meet Tony: the first Indian to set foot on American soil.

Among the settlers, slaves, and indentured servants that make the treacherous journey across the Atlantic to the New World in the early 1600s — for some, an exciting opportunity, for others, a brutal abduction — there is also Tony. As a child, his homeland on the Coromandel Coast of India becomes a trading outpost for the English; as an orphaned teenager, he finds himself kidnapped from the streets of London and bound to servitude on a Virginia plantation. But Tony is not giving up on his dreams just yet.

Under…

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Mater 2-10

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean history.

In contemporary Seoul, a laid-off worker stages a months-long sit-in atop a sixteen-storey factory chimney. During the long and lonely nights, he talks to his ancestors, chewing on the meaning of life, on wisdom passed down the generations.

Through the lives of those ancestors, three generations of railroad workers, Mater 2-10 vividly portrays the struggles of ordinary Koreans, starting from the…

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