UNSW Press News

Trafficked Launch

Trafficked by Kathleen Maltzahn will be launched at Fitzroy Town Hall Reading Room, 201 Napier St, Fitzroy on Saturday July 12 at 6pm.

RSVP: maltzahn@vicnet.net.au

Bye-Bye Charlie Launch

Bye-Bye Charlie: Stories from the Vanishing World of Kew Cottages by Corinne Manning will be launched by the Hon Jenny Macklin MP on Saturday 23 August at 2.30pm at the Treetops Room, Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton.

RSVP by August 8 to Udani Gunawardena on 03 9479 2430 or u.gunawardena@latrobe.edu.au

Howard's Fourth Government Launch

Howard's Fourth Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 2004-2007 edited by Chris Aulich and Roger Wettenhall will be launched by Jack Waterford, Editor-at-Large of The Canberra Times.

WHERE: Law School Foyer, Building 6, University of Canberra

WHEN: Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 5.30 for 6.00pm

RSVP: Ms Sheila Egan, (02) 62015061 or Sheila.Egan@canberra.edu.au

Events for Politics in the Blood

Politics in the Blood: The Anthonys of Richmond by Paul Davey

July 8: Talk at the Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney at 5.30 for 6pm. RSVP 2 9252 3366

June 12-14: Launch at the National Party Conference at Parliament House, Canberra.

Ernest Scott Prize 2008

Congratulations to UNSW Press authors shortlisted for the Ernest Scott Prize 2008:

John Fitzgerald for Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia and Raelene Frances for Selling Sex: A Hidden History of Prostitution.

The prize is awarded for the most distinguished contribution to Australian or New Zealand history. Winners will be announced on July 9.

Events for "The F Word"

The F Word: How we learned to swear by feminism by Jane Caro and Catherine Fox

Tuesday June 17, 5.30-7pm - Launch by Wendy McCarthy at Lord Nelson, The Rocks

Thursday June 19, 6.30 for 7pm - In Conversation with Jane Caro, Catherine Fox and Catherine Lumby at Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe 2037, RSVP: 9660 2333

Tuesday July 8, 1pm - Jane Caro at Stanton Library

2008 NSW Premier's Literary Awards

Congratulations to UNSW Press author Tom Griffiths who won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards on Monday May 19, 2008.

Judges' comments:

"Tom Griffiths’ Slicing the Silence is a sustained meditation on wildness and landscape, on ice, ecology and story; it is a vivid history of human enterprise and folly at the farthest reaches of culture. It is an impeccably researched, deeply felt, and elegantly made work of literary nonfiction, the outstanding work among this year’s entries."

UNSW Press authors shortlisted for the 2008 NSW Premier's Literary Awards:

John Fitzgerald Big White Lie - Community Relations Commissions Award
Tom Griffiths Slicing the Silence - Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
Glen Nicholls Deported - Gleebooks Prize
Peta Stephenson Outsiders Within - Community Relations Commissions Award and Gleebooks Prize

Events for "Believers"

Believers: Does Australian Catholicism have a future? by Paul Collins

Tuesday May 13, 7.30pm - Talk at "Spirituality in the Pub", Carlisle Castle Hotel, Newtown

Thursday June 26, 6.30 for 7pm - In Conversation with Stephen Crittenden at Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe 2037, RSVP: 9660 2333

Book Club

The Book Is Dead A book club for writers at Avid Reader - meet Sherman Young over i-chat on March 27, 7pm. Free event, RSVP essential. 3846 3422 or books@avidreader.com.au

Book Launch

Who Owns Our Health? by Thomas Faunce will be launched by Helen Watchirs, ACT Human Rights and Discrimination Commissioner, on 20th March 2008, at Paperchain Bookstore, Manuka 6.00pm.

Honourable Mention

UNSW Press has received an Honourable Mention in the Group Category of the National Cultural Awards (2007) managed by Manning Clark House. The awards, for “an outstanding contribution to the quality of Australian cultural life” are given in association with the Australian National University, the University of Canberra, The Canberra Times and the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies.

UNSW Press was commended for 'its publication of “books to make you think”; books that are central to debates about the history, politics, society and culture of Australia.’

Events for "History's Children"

History's Children: History Wars in the Classroom by Anna Clark

Thursday March 6, 7pm - In conversation with Anna Clark, Ilana Snyder and Jane Caro at gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe 2037.

Tuesday March 18, 6.30pm - Launch at Readings, 309 Lygon St, Carlton, 3053.

Limiting Democracy launch

Limiting Democracy: The Erosion of Electoral Rights in Australia by Colin A. Hughes and Brian Costar will be launched at the ANU Co-op Bookshop in Canberra on Tuesday 10 October at 5.30pm



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