Special offer for The Secret Ingredient by Chloe Shorten
Posted on 9 Mar 2018 under NewsNew releases
Pre-order The Secret Ingredient and receive a signed book and an exclusive video.
Celebrating women: #IWD 2018
Posted on 8 Mar 2018 under NewsNew releasesPolitics and Current Affairs
This year’s theme for International Women's Day, #PressforProgress, continues to rally for gender equality, and to celebrate women’s achievements everywhere. We're doing that too, by drawing attention to some amazing women we publish at MUP and how their stories have inspired us.
📖 MARCH GIVEAWAY 📖 : my family and other animus
Posted on 2 Mar 2018 under NewsArts and Literature
Have a look at what we’re offering this March and then head over to MUP's Facebook page for your chance to win a copy.
Surviving Your Split – 6 tips on how to get through
Posted on 26 Feb 2018
The ultimate guide to surviving and thriving your split. Written by two sisters, both lawyers and divorcees, Lucy and Rebekah Mannering both survived their splits. As lawyers who grew up in a family of lawyers, even they felt confronted by their strange new world. This is the book they wished they'd had.
📖 FEBRUARY GIVEAWAY 📖 : Surviving Your Split
Posted on 20 Feb 2018 under NewsNew releases
Have a look at one of our offering for February and then head over to MUP's Facebook page for your chance to win a copy.
5 must read Australian history stories
Posted on 20 Feb 2018 under Politics and Current AffairsArts and Literature
As prolific publishers of Australian history, we love to dive into our past titles and uncover some hidden gems. We've collated a few to get you going.
Meanjin Autumn Edition – out March 19
Posted on 19 Feb 2018 under Meanjin
Nothing in his time as a British Royal Navy doctor at war prepared Nick Martin for what he found in his stint working as a medico for the Australian Department of Border Protection on Nauru. His story, in Meanjin, this Autumn.
Alfred Felton and Flinders Lane: A Short History
Posted on 15 Feb 2018 under Miegunyah PressArts and Literature
This beautiful hardback book, strewed with the illustrations of wood engravings carved by Helen Ogilvie, is a work of art. It is a testament to a man who contributed so generously to Australian art culture.
Read the Extract: Modern Love
Posted on 13 Feb 2018 under Miegunyah PressArts and Literature
Read the prologue to Modern Love, a double biography by Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan, a co-publication from MUP’s Miegunyah Press, the State Library of Victoria and the Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Melbourne's Urban Transformation
Posted on 7 Feb 2018 under Arts and Literature
Always an urbane place, Melbourne has emerged from the 1980s as a city with a depth of character and urban buzz.
Christina Stead and her life in Letters
Posted on 6 Feb 2018 under New releasesWriting
Christina Stead’s letters, with their awkward Australian bones, their cosmopolitan sensibility and their ‘‘intelligent ferocity’’, cannot help but draw us in. Talking into the Typewriter is the second volume in the collection of her letters.
Why Australians Are Obsessed with the Weather
Posted on 29 Jan 2018
Are you a Sweltering Suzy? Or a Cool Calvin? Take the Weather Obsession quiz and find out!
Sunday's Kitchen and Sunday's Garden, together again
Posted on 24 Jan 2018 under Arts and Literature
Sunday Reed and her Heide garden.
Most Anticipated Books of 2018 from MUP
Posted on 10 Jan 2018 under NewsNew releases
The books you can't wait to read in 2018.
2018: A message from our publisher
Posted on 1 Jan 2018 under NewsNew releases
"You will know Melbourne University Publishing as the publisher of books with spine. That reputation remains our hallmark—our publishing program is filled with truth-telling authors, provocative ideas and irresistible stories," writes MUP CEO, Louise Adler.
Closed for the holidays
Posted on 18 Dec 2017 under News
Melbourne University Publishing will be closed from Wednesday 20 December for the holiday season
Team MUP farewells Emeritus Professor McPhee
Posted on 11 Dec 2017 under News
Team MUP farewells Emeritus Professor McPhee, the Chair of Melbourne University Publishing for the past six years.
Cardinal wins the 2017 Walkley Book of the Year
Posted on 29 Nov 2017 under NewsAwards
MUP congratulates Louise Milligan for winning the 2017 Walkley Book of the Year
Into the Heart of Tasmania wins the 2017 Tasmania Book Prize
Posted on 28 Nov 2017 under Arts and LiteratureAwards
MUP congratulates Rebe Taylor for winning the 2017 Tasmania Book Prize with Into the Heart of Tasmania.
The World of the Book returns to Melbourne
Posted on 1 Nov 2017 under NewsArts and Literature
A new edition to coincide with the State Library of Victoria's exhibition