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Our non-fiction books are expertly researched and finely curated. We publish enduring ideas across politics, culture, science, history and more.
Tell us about yourself and enter for the chance to WIN a $200 Readings voucher. There are five to be won!

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November 20, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Join us at the international symposium on truth-telling at The University of Melbourne from 11-14 November 2025. We will be selling books, including copies of ‘Dhoombak Goobgoowana’ Volumes 1 and 2.

Book now to secure your place: https://bit.ly/3JoDCAk
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
'[No Power Greater] is easily the best single-volume Australian general union history we have seen.' – Frank Bongiorno

Now is the time to pick up Liam Byrne’s history of union action in Australia 📢
October 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
We’re so stoked that Geoff Raby’s GREAT GAME ON has been longlisted for the 2025 Walkley Book Award 🎉

GREAT GAME ON takes the reader on a journey across Eurasia to understand the forces shaping its geopolitics.

Read the full longlist here: https://bit.ly/473zWeU
October 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
MUP’s biggest publication day is here 📚

🧡 Rebel Women Speak
🍯 Honey From the Ground
🇺🇸 Turbulence
📸 Early Photography in Colonial Australia
📖 Saltwater Fella
🌿 Red Earth
🏙️ Shutter City
🏡 Great Properties of the Riverina and Upper Murray
October 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Discover the magic. Discover you. ✨

Today is Love Your Bookshop Day, an annual celebration of everything that makes local bookshops special.

MUP encourages you to join the festivities happening at your local bookshop today and support them in any way you can! 📚💙
October 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Just two weeks until Canberra Writers Festival 🥳

Make sure to book your tickets now here: https://bit.ly/4eT9l6T

MUP authors Esther Anatolitis, Clinton Fernandes and Jenny Macklin will be in attendance.
October 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Catch Marika Sosnowski across her events in VIC, NSW & QLD ❤️

Find detailed event information here: https://www.mup.com.au/events

58 FACETS weaves together the narratives of Holocaust survivors and Israeli war criminals with Syrian activists, revolutionaries and dissenters.
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
From interview preparation to workplace understanding and tools for success, this book is for both autistic and non-autistic people in the workplace 💛

AUTISTICS AT WORK is now available at your local bookstore.
September 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
What it means to be an Aussie dad 💜

FATHERING by Alistair Thomson, John Murphy, Kate Murphy, Johnny Bell, and Jill Barnard is now available!

Transform your understanding of men's experience of parenthood in the first comprehensive history of Australian fathering.
September 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Cats 🐱 or Lions 🦁 – let us know who you’ve got in the comments below!

Refine your AFL knowledge with THE FOOTBALL WAR by Xavier Fowler, the historical conquest that shaped the modern league.

Available at your local bookstore today 🏉
September 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Congratulations to Ross L Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton on the launch of DHOOMBAK GOOBGOOWANA – VOLUME 2: VOICE.

Paperback editions are now available at your local bookstore.

📸 – James Henry
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
We’re absolutely thrilled that NUKED by Andrew Fowler has been shortlisted for the 2025 Australian Political Book of the Year 🌟

The Judges said ‘the probing research by Andrew Fowler behind this book is exceptional.’

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors!
September 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
New books to start off your Spring reading right 🌸

BEYOND THE MEETING OF THE WATERS by Dr Wayne Atkinson and Catherine Guinness
AUTISTICS AT WORK by Sandra Thom-Jones
58 FACETS by Marika Sosnowski

Now available at your local bookstore and online.
September 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
An updated edition with insight on how to deal with the cost of living crisis.

COPING IN GOOD TIMES AND BAD (updated edition) by Erica Frydenberg is now available at your local bookstore 😁
September 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The voice of the antinuclear movement.

’Required reading for any incumbent or aspiring political leader.’ – Tessa Morris-Suzuki in Inside Story

Read the full review here: https://bit.ly/45wvnsS
September 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM