University of Queensland Press

Some words are made of breath. Some words are made of stone. Listen, weigh them carefully, To make music for your poem.What better way to get away tha...

Suspenseful, vital and exquisitely observed, this unique horizontal narrative is a richly textured portrait of an afternoon in an Australian town in 1...

Hilarious, insightful and one hell of a wild ride, this is Bill Bryson for the new world. Blogging- it's a vicious, anonymous world - so why d...

Aboriginal Australia presents selected themes that relate to indigenous Australians against a background of traditional, colonial and contemporary exp...

Speedy Simpson is the best at everything at Oompha Primary School, at least he is until Bebe LaMouche arrives in town. Bebe can swear better than anyo...

Nick Earls popular first young adult novel, After January, now re-released with the story, 'Juliet' that started it all. Originally published separa...

A single mother resorts to extreme measures to protect her young son. A Nigerian student undertakes a United Nations internship in the hope of a bette...

The gripping finale to Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers brings to a close Matthew Condon's best-selling true-crime trilogy. In 1983, the soo...

In this captivating memoir, Linda Neil shares stories of travel, taking us from the glitz of Shanghai to wintry London, from the outskirts of Ulaanbaa...

'This island, this solitude, this rainy day, this stack of blank paper, I shall transform you, by these sorceries I have learned, into the stuff of fr...

An engrossing account of a country on the edge In July 2009, Michael Brissenden traded political reporting in Canberra for a job in Washington as U...

Now I knit myself back into a human. It's hard work relearning the steps - slip-stitch, drop-stitch, pick-up stitch, loop. I get into a rhythm. The pa...

Whether meditating on life or letting her hair down, Anonymous Premonition gives the low down on what it is to be an Indigenous woman today. Yvette Ho...

Each eye like a polished mirror filled with time and sky, each mane like the curved harp of a beheaded player Crystalline yet richly allusive, vita...

'People like you and me, Jonah,we drag down the price of everything we touch.' Life for Jonah and Manx means fishing for mullet at the lake, watching ...

you feel with an ember in your mouth dreamt you were playing a stone trumpet a strange lament to accompany a cold ritual smashed souls with bullet hol...

Winner of the 2007 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize Sarah Holland-Batt's Aria, winner of the 2007 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, is an impressive addition ...

One girl. One dream. A few hurdles.Ten-year-old Vivian is determined to win a medal at the Olympic Games one day. Problem is, she hasn't found a sport...

Full of zest and flair, Jessen's poems map constellations of desire, loss and longing. Riffing on the future (which isn't what it used to be), dating ...

How do you know if your friends really like you?' 'What does it feel like to be actually happy?''I'm ugly. How will I ever get a boyfriend?''How can ...

'Music never stopped a war or put an end to greed or the hunger for power. But it was never supposed to. It has no reason, just as life has no reason....

From the mid-1830s until the end of the nineteenth century, hundreds of plays were written and staged in the Australian colonies. Australian Plays for...

From the mid-1830s until the end of the nineteenth century hundreds of plays were written and staged in the Australian colonies. The first known of th...

Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque i...

A NEW ADVENTURE WITH LUKE AND ALEX FROM LICKING LIZARDS Luke and Alex are on a new expedition down by the river. This time they are joined by Luke's c...

Bea is a bird of unusual tastes. ..While the other birds peck at ants and watch worms wiggle, Bea likes to bake buns and berry pudding. She loves danc...

'Books can save anyone. If they're the right ones.'Tiny is an eighteen-year-old girl living on the streets in Sydney, running from her small-town past...

Tonight we are wolves. Our pack moves as one, past empty shop fronts and faded billboards. Sixteen-year-old Rory is at a crossroads in her life. While...

The Adventures of Danny is a new series for 7-11 year-olds by popular author Pat Flynn. Each book comprises five or more entertaining stories about Da...

The unauthorised biography of Australia's first media magnate Following the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch said h...

What determines 'traditional' Aboriginal art in an era when modern media such as aluminium, acrylic paint and even cast-off fishing nets have become t...

It explains how Aurukun art production absorbed the colonial impact of mission and government intervention throughout the 20th century and provides th...

" . . . You are going to be pleasant and helpful, Bee, and not chase Jazzi away. I like Jazzi. I want her to be a permanent fixture in our lives ...

There's a storm brewing and the hive must find a new home. With clouds filling the sky and thunder growling, Bertha bravely rises to the occasion . . ...

In 1985 Jacqueline Kent was content with her life. She had a satisfying career as a freelance book editor, and was emerging as a writer. Living and wo...

The compelling and cinematic second novel from Belinda Jeffrey, author of Brown Skin Blue. Big River, Little Fish is the highly anticipated sec...