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Q & A with Melinda Cooper, author of Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark's Interwar Fiction
Melinda Cooper’s research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century Australian literature. Her work on Australian modernism has been published ...
Q & A with Elizabeth Ellis, author of Australian Animal Law
Elizabeth Ellis is an honorary senior fellow with the School of Law at the University of Wollongong where she taught for many years. She introduced...
Rare Book Week, 24–28 October 2022
In honour of Rare Book Week (24–28 October), the SUP team wanted to share a story that exemplifies how much of a treat this is for us!
Q & A with Jenny Welsh
Jenny Welsh interned at SUP in the first semester of 2022 as part of the Master of Publishing degree at the University of Sydney.
Q & A with Simon Chapman, author of Quit Smoking Weapons of Mass Distraction
Simon Chapman AO is Emeritus Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney where he ran public health advocacy and tobacco control courses...
Q & A with Roger Osborne, author of The Life of Such is Life
The version of Such is Life that established Joseph Furphy’s reputation as the "father of the Australian novel" was published in 1903 and was much shorter than the version he mailed to his editor in 1897. In The Life of Such is Life, Roger Osborne explores the differences between the published versions and Furphy's original manuscript. We asked Roger a few questions about his experience working on this book.
Q & A with Richard Horsburgh and Siaoman Yen, editors of South Flows the Pearl
Mavis Yen was born in Perth in 1916, the daughter of a Chinese father and an Australian mother. She lived in both countries and understood what it ...
Q & A with Peter Charles Gibson, author of Made in Chinatown
Peter Charles Gibson’s Made in Chinatown was published in March this year. The book delves into a little-known aspect of Australia’s past: its hundreds of Chinese furniture factories. We caught up with Peter to ask him a few questions about his motivations for writing the book, its significance and his writing process.
Kung Hei Fat Choi! Year of the Tiger
As the Lunar New Year starts, we welcome our newest book in the China and the West in the Modern World series.
South Flows the Pearl: Chinese Australian Voices tells the stories of families who lived between China and Australia in the 20th century.
2022 and holiday closure
We wish all our readers, authors and colleagues a relaxing break and a very happy new year.
The SUP office will be closed from 24 December and reop...
Q & A with the authors of Buying and Selling the Poor
Siobhan O’Sullivan, Michael McGann, and Mark Considine are authors of Buying and Selling the Poor: Inside Australia’s Privatised Welfare-to-Work Market, a new book in the Public and Social Policy series, which traces the impacts of marketisation and reform in Australia's welfare-to-work system.
The SUP store is coming back!
The SUP online store will be reopening on Monday 1 November 2021.
There may be delays between orders and delivery, but we will keep customers aware of when their items have shipped and are likely to arrive.