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Established in 1922, Melbourne University Publishing is Australia’s oldest university press. MUP publishes books of endu

MUP specialises in scholarly, trade and illustrated non-fiction titles that are expertly researched, peer reviewed and finely curated.

23/10/2025

'[No Power Greater] is easily the best single-volume Australian general union history we have seen.' – Frank Bongiorno

Now is the time to pick up Liam Byrne’s history of union action in Australia 📢

NO POWER GREATER is the compelling story of the acts of rebellion and solidarity that have shaped Australia's past and shows that unions are far from history.

22/10/2025

Step into the world of 19th-century Melbourne 🏙️

✍️ Signed copies of SHUTTER CITY by Robyn Annear are now available at Readings–get in quick as copies are limited!

Let Shutter City be your time-machine and Robyn Annear your guide: her lively and insightful commentary weaves the street views and their 'sparks' into a vivid narrative of a near-forgotten Melbourne and the photographers who captured it.

15/10/2025

We’re so stoked that Geoff Raby’s GREAT GAME ON has been longlisted for the 2025 Walkley Book Award 🎉

GREAT GAME ON takes the reader on a journey across Eurasia to understand the forces shaping its geopolitics.

Read the full longlist here: https://bit.ly/473zWeU

14/10/2025

MUP’s biggest publication day is here 📚

Available now at your local bookstore and online!

🧡 Rebel Women Speak
🍯 Honey From the Ground by Soren Tae Smith
🇺🇸 Turbulence by Clinton Fernandes
📸 Early Photography in Colonial Australia by Elisa deCourcy
📖 Saltwater Fella by John Moriarty
🌿 Red Earth by Stuart Kells
🏙️ Shutter City by Robyn Annear
🏡 Great Properties of the Riverina and Upper Murray by Richard Allen and Kimbal Baker

10/10/2025

Discover the magic. Discover you. ✨

Today is Love Your Bookshop Day, an annual celebration of everything that makes local bookshops special.

MUP encourages you to join the festivities happening at your local bookshop today–whether that be meeting your favorite author, finding new reads, or most importantly cherishing the community that shares your love of books 📚💙

09/10/2025

Just two weeks until Canberra Writers Festival 🥳

Make sure to book your tickets now here: https://bit.ly/4eT9l6T

We have three wonderful authors in attendance, with Esther Anatolitis exploring how timely essays can wake us up in ESSAYS THAT CHANGED AUSTRALIA, Clinton Fernandes discussing the USA, Trump & Friends in TURBULENCE and Jenny Macklin sharing insights on transformative policy making in MAKING PROGRESS.

01/10/2025

Catch Marika Sosnowski across her events in VIC, NSW & QLD ❤️

Find detailed event information here: https://www.mup.com.au/events

58 FACETS weaves together the narratives of Holocaust survivors and Israeli war criminals with Syrian activists, revolutionaries and dissenters.

29/09/2025

What it means to be an Aussie dad 💜

FATHERING by Alistair Thomson, John Murphy, Kate Murphy, Johnny Bell, and Jill Barnard is now available at your local bookstore.

Transform your understanding of men's experience of parenthood in the first comprehensive history of Australian fathering.

26/09/2025

Cats 🐱 or Lions 🦁 – let us know who you’ve got in the comments below!

Refine your AFL knowledge with THE FOOTBALL WAR by Xavier Fowler, the historical conquest that shaped the modern league.

Available at your local bookstore today 🏉

25/09/2025

Just two weeks until Brisbane Writers Festival 🥳

Make sure to book your tickets now here: https://bit.ly/4nSqZMu

Two of our stellar authors will be in attendance across three sessions, with Clinton Fernandes discussing Donald Trump’s geopolitical ambitions in TURBULENCE and Steve Vizard exploring how myth creates meaning for a nation in NATION, MEMORY, MYTH.

19/09/2025

Congratulations to Ross L Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton on the launch of DHOOMBAK GOOBGOOWANA – VOLUME 2: VOICE.

This volume shows how Indigenous communities challenged and disrupted the University, how they contributed to its research endeavours and exhorted it to introduce Indigenous knowledge into the academic sphere.

Paperback editions are now available at your local bookstore.

📸 – James Henry

18/09/2025

We’re absolutely thrilled that NUKED by Andrew Fowler has been shortlisted for the 2025 Australian Political Book of the Year 🌟

The Judges said ‘the probing research by Andrew Fowler behind this book is exceptional.’

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors–read the full list here: https://bit.ly/3Koskfc

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