Australia’s top thinkers on foreign affairs address the most significant foreign affairs dynamics affecting Australia today, including the rise of China and the election of Donald Trump. The world is changing, and so is Australia’s place in it. What do we need to know? What do we need to think about?

Print and digital subscriptions are available for Australian Foreign Affairs, for more information please visit the official site at australianforeignaffairs.com.

Black Inc. is an independent Australian publisher of quality non-fiction, fiction and poetry. We love ideas and stories. We are passionate about important new works of history, politics, biography, criticism and current affairs, as well as novels and poems that open up new worlds. 

A list of our authors can be seen here.

Under the imprint of Carlow Books, Black Inc is pleased to provide custom publishing and distribution services to high quality projects, ranging from short topical essays to fully illustrated hardcovers. For more information, please contact [email protected]

In 2008, Black Inc. published the first in the Growing Up series, Growing Up Asian in Australia, a collection of fifty-five short memoirs and nine interviews, edited by Alice Pung. Growing Up Asian has since gone on to sell over 104,000 copies and launch the careers of Alice Pung, Benjamin Law and many more.

Featuring some of the most well-known and emerging voices in Australian writing, each book in our Growing Up series captures the diversity of our nation in moving and revelatory ways.

Since that inaugural edition, we have proudly published Growing Up Aboriginal, Growing Up African, Growing Up Queer and Growing Up Disabled in Australia and in 2022 we will publish Growing Up in Country Australia.

Beginning in 2012, with The Shortest History of Europe, our Shortest Histories offer clear and concise accounts of broad-ranging topics from the world’s leading subject matter experts. Every book in our Shortest History series can be read in an afternoon and will transform your perspective for a lifetime.

Often humorous and always illuminating, the series has sold over half a million copies across the globe, with rights sold in more than twenty-two countries. 

The series includes The Shortest History of War, The Shortest History of China, The Shortest History of England and, forthcoming in 2022, The Shortest History of India, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union, The Shortest History of Democracy and The Shortest History of the World.

In the Writers on Writers series, leading authors reflect on an Australian writer who has inspired and influenced them. Provocative and crisp, these books start a fresh conversation between past and present, shed new light on the craft of writing, and introduce some intriguing and talented authors and their work.

Published by Black Inc. in association with the University of Melbourne and State Library Victoria.

Introducing La Trobe University Press

La Trobe University Press (LTUP) is a joint imprint of Black Inc. and La Trobe University. It publishes leading scholars and experts, producing books of high intellectual quality, substance and originality.

Submission guidelines for La Trobe University Press can be found here.

Nero publishes exciting and entertaining local and international commercial mass-market titles. Our goal is simple: to deliver books that are diverting, spirited and clever. We care about our authors and believe in having the time and vision to nurture them, be they debut or established.

Piccolo Nero publishes books that keep children reading and help their young but amazingly potent imaginations develop. Stunningly designed and originating from both local and international writers, they are for children both big and small.

Quarterly Essay is an agenda-setting journal of politics and culture. Each issue contains a single essay of about 25,000 words, followed by correspondence on previous essays. QE presents the widest range of political, intellectual and cultural opinion and aims to foster debate. It offers a forum for original long-form investigations, profiles and arguments.

Print and digital subscriptions are available for Quarterly Essay, for more information please visit quarterlyessay.com

Redbacks are Books with Bite. These short books on big issues are written by leading Australian writers and thinkers. They range in style from essay to dispatch, from analysis to provocation.

Schwartz City publishes art books of distinction, showcasing work by leading contemporary artists.