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"I should stress that my book is not meant to be about what it was like for me to work in remote communities, but rather about the people who established these communities, and their aspirations, written from the perspective of someone who was there."
David Scrimgeour about REMOTE AS EVER
“We can shed unhelpful coping habits and develop helpful ones. Thinking about and talking about coping helps us to achieve the best outcomes. It’s about working towards our personal best and building up the best coping skills. It is a ride we can enjoy.”
Erica Frydenberg about COPING IN GOOD TIMES AND BAD
“Gradually a chill spread across the cultural landscape after Malcolm Fraser came to power in 1975. But there were radical issues, and great energy in the women’s movement, which got into their stride in the late 1970s. This was reflected in the pages of Meanjin—it was important to take the magazine to the sources of energy."
Jim Davidson about EMPERORS IN LILLIPUT
From the blog
Q & A with Stuart Kells—Author of MUP: A Centenary History
In our latest Q & A, author of MUP: A CENTENARY HISTORY, Stuart Kells discusses the history of the press, the interesting stories he unearthed during his research and the most notable books published across 100 years of the press.
A Letter from the Publisher
Dear friends, Shortly after I arrived at MUP in 2019 Professor Joy Damousi suggested that with the centenary of MUP coming up we should publish a press history. Perhaps not surprisingly I read many memoirs and histories about books and publishing, so I thought this a fine idea. But who to do it? Eventually the back part of my brain spat out the ideal candidate: Stuart Kells, a fellow book and publishing history enthusiast (some would say obsessive) who has written an award-winning account of Penguin, among other works on the subject. As Jason Steger put it, in an early notice of the book’s appearance: 'Stuart Kells knows his way around the book world like the back of his hand’.
