Meredith Curnow

Meredith Curnow is Publisher of the Month

April 2019, no. 410

I am very proud of most of the books I have published. Some that stand out include Kate McClymont and Linton Besser’s He Who Must Be Obeid, which involved us all in a world of pain, but also instigated the case against Eddie Obeid. Working with Julia Gillard on My Story was rather special, and last year I published Rusted Off from Gabrielle Chan ...

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2018 Publisher Picks

by Nathan Hollier et al. •

January-February 2019, no. 408

To complement our ‘Books of the Year’ feature, which appeared in the December 2018 issue, we invited some senior publishers to nominate their favourite books of 2018 – all published by other companies.

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2017 Publisher Picks

by Madonna Duffy et al •

January–February 2018, no. 398

To complement our 2017 ‘Books of the Year’, we invited several senior publishers to nominate their favourite books – all published by other companies.

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2016 Publisher Picks

by Ben Ball et al. •

December 2016, no. 387

I’m fresh from Hannah Kent’s compelling, humane, and utterly convincing The Good People (Picador, 10/16). Kent completely inhabits her material. In this single nineteenth ...

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Freedom Ride: A freedom rider remembers by Ann Curthoys

by Meredith Curnow •

October 2002, no. 245

Meredith Curnow reviews 'Freedom Ride: A freedom rider remembers' by Ann Curthoys

Ann Curthoys’s Freedom Ride is a meticulously researched piece of Australian history, and so much more. It could sit comfortably on the required reading lists of subjects ranging from History, to Government, to Media. This ‘road story’ of peripatetic direct democracy, from people too young to assert the right to vote for change, is also an inspirational text that makes you question your own passivity to the wrongs in our world.

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