New releases
📖 AUGUST GIVEAWAY 📖 : ON SLEEP by Fleur Anderson
Posted on 1 Aug 2018 under New releasesGiveaways and competitions
Have a look at what we’re offering this August and then head over to MUP's Facebook page for your chance to win a copy.
Out this July | Radical Heart, The Knowledge Solution, On Disruption, and Run for Your Life!
Posted on 30 Jun 2018 under NewsNew releases
These are some heavyweights: what our best political thinkers say about the crisis of democracy; Shireen Morris' memoir on her fight to achieve constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians; Bob Carr's funny and delightful political memoir; and Katharine Murphy on the meaning of disruption.
Busting myths about the single life: Clare Payne
Posted on 23 May 2018 under New releasesWriting
Judgements made of single people, particularly single women, are harsh. Here are some ways single women suffer the judgement of others about their relationship status, by Clare Payne, author of One.
Meanjin "#MeToo" Winter Edition – The Turning Point
Posted on 22 May 2018 under MeanjinNew releases
This edition's feature essay, ‘The Turning Point: One man's downfall, #METoo and the rising up’ is written by bestselling author, Clementine Ford.
'Talk to your mother' says Sarah Ferguson
Posted on 18 May 2018 under New releasesArts and Literature
On Mother is Sarah Ferguson's homage to her mother. #TalkToYourMother
📖 MAY GIVEAWAY 📖 : One by Clare Payne
Posted on 1 May 2018 under New releasesGiveaways and competitions
Have a look at what we’re offering this May and then head over to MUP's Facebook page for your chance to win a copy.
Books from MUP this May!
Posted on 30 Apr 2018 under NewsNew releases
Acollection of short fiction, finely curated by Meanjin's Editor Jonathan Green; a treatise and celebration in the single life; and, a celebration of motherhood contemplated by one of Australia's most respected journalists.
Q & A with Nikki Gemmell – Author of On Quiet
Posted on 12 Apr 2018 under New releasesArts and LiteratureInterviews
"I needed the medicine of quiet because noise was making me sick; I was losing myself in the midst of it all. By researching quietism I wrote myself into it, and was rescued." – Nikki Gemmell on why we all need the medicine of quiet in her latest book.
📖 APRIL COMPETITION 📖 : On Quiet
Posted on 3 Apr 2018 under New releasesGiveaways and competitions
Have a look at what we’re offering this April and then head over to MUP's Facebook page for your chance to win a copy.
A Matter of Trust – a timely practical guide to ethical finance
Posted on 28 Mar 2018 under AcademicNew releasesPolitics and Current Affairs
A particularly timely book, A Matter of Trust discusses the effects of how an ethical mishap can cause widespread institutional and systemic shortcomings across the financial sector. On Tuesday we launched A Matter of Trust: The Practice of Ethics in Finance at the University of Melbourne.
Melbourne University Publishing has acquired world rights to Germaine Greer’s new book, On Rape
Posted on 28 Mar 2018 under AcademicNewsNew releasesPolitics and Current Affairs
Germaine Greer calls for ‘a better way’ in new book On Rape, to be published by Melbourne University Publishing
Chloe Shorten on Placemats and Peacekeeping
Posted on 22 Mar 2018 under New releasesWritingInterviews
'Setting the table is one of those jobs I recall from my childhood that used to make me wince. I got it out of the way as quickly as I could and had a list in my head: placemats, plates, napkin, knife, fork, pudding spoon, glass, jug, salt and pepper.' – Chloe Shorten on her tradition of the family table.
Special offer for The Secret Ingredient by Chloe Shorten
Posted on 9 Mar 2018 under NewsNew releases
Pre-order The Secret Ingredient and receive a signed book and an exclusive video.
Celebrating women: #IWD 2018
Posted on 8 Mar 2018 under NewsNew releasesPolitics and Current Affairs
This year’s theme for International Women's Day, #PressforProgress, continues to rally for gender equality, and to celebrate women’s achievements everywhere. We're doing that too, by drawing attention to some amazing women we publish at MUP and how their stories have inspired us.
📖 FEBRUARY GIVEAWAY 📖 : Surviving Your Split
Posted on 20 Feb 2018 under NewsNew releases
Have a look at one of our offering for February and then head over to MUP's Facebook page for your chance to win a copy.
Christina Stead and her life in Letters
Posted on 6 Feb 2018 under New releasesWriting
Christina Stead’s letters, with their awkward Australian bones, their cosmopolitan sensibility and their ‘‘intelligent ferocity’’, cannot help but draw us in. Talking into the Typewriter is the second volume in the collection of her letters.
Most Anticipated Books of 2018 from MUP
Posted on 10 Jan 2018 under NewsNew releases
The books you can't wait to read in 2018.
2018: A message from our publisher
Posted on 1 Jan 2018 under NewsNew releases
"You will know Melbourne University Publishing as the publisher of books with spine. That reputation remains our hallmark—our publishing program is filled with truth-telling authors, provocative ideas and irresistible stories," writes MUP CEO, Louise Adler.
Live National Press Club launch of Gareth Evans's 'Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir'
Posted on 7 Oct 2017 under NewsNew releasesPolitics and Current Affairs
On Wednesday 4 October 2017, the Hon Bob Hawke AC GCL launched the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC's 'Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir'
A message from Gareth Evans
Posted on 26 Sep 2017 under New releasesPolitics and Current Affairs
Gareth Evans will be touring INCORRIGIBLE OPTIMIST around Australia in October