Short Blacks are gems of recent Australian writing – brisk reads that quicken the pulse and stimulate the mind.

The boxset includes;

Richard Flanagan – The Australian Disease: the decline of love and the rise of non-freedom

Karen Hitchcock – Fat City

Noel Pearson – The War of the Worlds

Helen Garner – Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice

John Birmingham – The Brave Ones: East Timor, 1999

Anna Krien – Booze Territory

David Malouf – The One Day: the memory of Anzac

Simon Leys – Prosper: a voyage at sea

Robert Manne – Cypherpunk Revolutionary: On Julian Assange

Les Murray – Killing the Black Dog

Robyn Davidson – No Fixed Address

Galarrwuy Yunupingu – Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow