Books

Do you know where "yaaaas queen!" comes from? Do you know the difference between a bear and a wolf? Do you know what all the letters in LGBTQIA+ st...

There's more to being queer than coming out and getting married. This exciting and contemporary collection contains stories that are as diverse as ...

Interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara's work interrogates and dismantles gender roles, (mis)representation, and colonial legacies in the Pacific. Ki...

Anatomy is a gorgeous, large-format book filled with clever cutouts exploring every detail of the organs, systems and senses that make up that most...

On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Dr Nina Simone gave a rare performance as part of Nick Cave's Meltdown Festival. After the show, in a state of awe, Warre...

Spanning 65,000 years, this book provides a history of food in Australia from its beginnings, with the arrival of the first peoples and their stewa...

A major reassessment of world history, The Silk Roads is a dazzling exploration of the forces that have driven the rise and fall of empires, determ...

Similar to food and the act of sharing meals, our relationship to textiles—both creating them and using them—is a core tenet of our human experienc...

Indian textile production has flourished for centuries. Drawing on a host of influences, indigenous tribes, invaders, traders and explorers from ac...

Indian textile designs express dazzling inventiveness and creativity, from the woven silks of royalty to the simple block-printed patterns. This au...

Following the success of Pattern and Ornament in the Arts of India, Henry Wilson has turned, for this companion volume, to a single theme. But what...

Nell: The Wake. Published by STATION this book covers the artist's group of hand-built ceramic vessels created for the 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Au...

Bricks can be cleaned, timber hardens with age and metal develops a pleasing patina without deteriorating, making them all perfect for reuse. Yet e...

Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths...

The Little Red Yellow Black Book has established itself as the perfect starting point for those who want to learn about the rich cultures and histo...

A toolkit for understanding our emotional responses to climate change and how we can have meaningful conversations across dividing lines. 'The ant...

This book takes readers into Foley’s lived experience of growing up Aboriginal in Sydney. His family’s story and his memories of Gai-mariagal c...

A graceful, illuminating work of Native American natural history As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature wit...

Demystifying and celebrating gender diversity We find ourselves at an exciting moment in history. For the first time, trans and gender diverse peo...

Architecture, Landscape & Design 1925-1975   From the Sydney Opera House and the National Gallery of Victoria to sought-after homes across the ...