A Letter from the Publisher
Posted on 9 Dec 2024 under News
MUP books stand for the enduring importance of scholarship – these are the books that help us think and make sense of the world we live in. Fran Lebowitz’s ‘Think before you speak. Read before you think’ has never been more apt than in today’s clamorous, shouty world.
Our new sales & distribution partnership with Simon & Schuster Australia
Posted on 14 Jun 2024
Melbourne University Publishing has embarked on a partnership with Simon & Schuster Australia for its sales and distribution in Australia and New Zealand after 12 years with United Book Distributors (UBD).
Stuart Kells on ABC Nightlife
Posted on 1 May 2024 under Academic
"We need a well-informed public conversation about how monetary and fiscal policy should operate. And based on that, we need a clear program for reform."
EXTRACT: Barbara Tucker and Heide
Posted on 30 Jan 2024 under Miegunyah PressNew releasesArts and LiteratureWriting
In the late 1990s Barbara and Albert Tucker made the magnanimous and bold decision to donate a significant proportion of their personal collection to the nation. While this generous gesture included a select number of gifts to state institutions and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, they determined to transfer the major part of the collection to Heide Museum of Modern Art in their hometown of Melbourne.
MUP welcomes new Publisher, Foong Ling Kong
Posted on 5 Dec 2023 under News
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is pleased to announce the appointment of Foong Ling Kong as its new Publisher.
Unmaking Angas Downs wins the 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History
Posted on 17 Nov 2023 under NewsAwards
"An exceptional work of historical scholarship by an exciting new voice in history-making (and unmaking)."
June Factor wins the Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize
Posted on 13 Sep 2023 under NewsAwards
June Factor's SOLDIERS AND ALIENS has won a prestigious award for Australian military history.
EXTRACT: Emmett Stinson interviews Gerald Murnane
Posted on 2 Aug 2023 under Arts and Literature
"In the past, books themselves were a sort of internet. Some bloke would write to me from California and say, ‘I found a second-hand copy of Landscape with Landscape in a bookshop in San Francisco. It’s an amazing book.’ And I thought, how did it get there? But he’s read it and he has written to me, so I knew this was happening."— Gerald Murnane
MUP takes top honours within Australia's prestigious literary awards landscape.
Posted on 19 Jul 2023 under Arts and Literature
Melbourne University Publishing has received two honours for its published titles.
Melbourne University Publishing at Brisbane Writers Festival
Posted on 30 Mar 2023 under Politics and Current AffairsArts and Literature
The Brisbane Writers Festival has a slew of MUP authors this year dedicated to sharing their personal memories, discussing timely political issues, examining cultural abuse, disseminating government systems and demystifying gender. Scroll through our blog post to uncover all we have on offer at BWF this year.
Going to War Against China—an extract from Secret by Brian Toohey
Posted on 16 Mar 2023 under Politics and Current Affairs
‘Avoiding catastrophe requires co-operation not mindless confrontation, dialogue not constant exploitation of unfounded fears. Fears spread by journalists in thrall to the national security state...steering the country towards a cataclysmic, but unnecessary, war.’ — Brian Toohey
Q & A with Justin Clemens and Thomas H. Ford—Authors of Barron Field in New South Wales
Posted on 14 Mar 2023 under AcademicArts and Literature
Read our Q & A with authors of Barron Field in New South Wales, Justin Clemens and Thomas H. Ford. Explore the revelations uncovered about Barron field's life, the impact he had on Australia as a poet and Judge, and the importance of analysing Barron Field as a person through the analysis of his poetry.
Q & A with Eve Vincent—Author of Who Cares? Life on Welfare in Australia
Posted on 22 Feb 2023 under NewsPolitics and Current Affairs
Even before the pandemic, I was becoming increasingly aware of and concerned about growing inequality in Australia. I wanted to understand what it was like to face poverty, to need assistance, and how today’s welfare system treats those most in need.
Q & A with Stuart Kells—Author of MUP: A Centenary History
Posted on 14 Feb 2023 under AcademicArts and Literature
In our latest Q & A, author of MUP: A CENTENARY HISTORY, Stuart Kells discusses the history of the press, the interesting stories he unearthed during his research and the most notable books published across 100 years of the press.
A Letter from the Publisher
Posted on 6 Feb 2023 under AcademicMiegunyah PressNew releasesPolitics and Current AffairsArts and LiteratureWriting
Dear friends, Shortly after I arrived at MUP in 2019 Professor Joy Damousi suggested that with the centenary of MUP coming up we should publish a press history. Perhaps not surprisingly I read many memoirs and histories about books and publishing, so I thought this a fine idea. But who to do it? Eventually the back part of my brain spat out the ideal candidate: Stuart Kells, a fellow book and publishing history enthusiast (some would say obsessive) who has written an award-winning account of Penguin, among other works on the subject. As Jason Steger put it, in an early notice of the book’s appearance: 'Stuart Kells knows his way around the book world like the back of his hand’.
Q & A with David Scrimgeour—Author of Remote as Ever
Posted on 14 Dec 2022 under Academic
Read our Q & A with author of Remote as Ever, David Scrimgeour. Discover what it is like to work in a remote Aboriginal community, the difficulties faced as a doctor out in the Western Desert and the government policies hindering Aboriginal health.
The Australians at Geneva: William Caldwell
Posted on 2 Dec 2022 under Academic
In November 1915 he was granted a special degree – despite not completing his final year of studies – as he had enlisted (having earlier been rejected) in the AIF; he was also awarded the University of Western Australia’s first Rhodes Scholarship. Qualifying for the officers corps he was commissioned in January 1916, where he embarked on the Miltiades for the European theatre in February.
Gideon Haigh launches Cannon Fire: A Life in Print
Posted on 28 Nov 2022 under Miegunyah PressArts and Literature
' "Cannon Fire" instead reeks of ink and ingenuity, that so-rare combination in Australia, and this country's tradition of auto-didacticism, never scarcer. There's an old joke about the Australian who's asked whether he can play the violin. "I don't know," he replies. "I've never tried." I can pay "Cannon Fire" no greater tribute than that reading it makes you want to roll up your sleeves, get busy, have a go, and not be sorry should it not quite work out.'
Read an extract from Cannon Fire: A Life in Print
Posted on 2 Nov 2022 under Arts and Literature
Read an extract from Cannon Fire: A Life in Print—Life Revisited by Michael Cannon
Q & A with Jim Davidson—Author of Emperors in Lilliput
Posted on 27 Oct 2022
Read our Q & A with author of Emperors in Lilliput, Jim Davidson. Find out how the publishing landscape has changed and what is required from a literary magazine to survive through the ages.