AndAlso Books

14/06/2024

We’re intensely proud to announce our new title - ‘Saving K’gari: The Campaign to save an island’ - the memoir of John Sinclair, who led the fight against sand-mining and logging of Fraser Island (as it was then known) in the 1970s-80s.
John was a founding member of FIDO (Fraser Island Defenders Organisation).
We are co-publishing ‘Saving K’gari’ with FIDO, and with the close involvement of John’s family.

17/05/2024

We wish our friend the best luck in the tomorrow night, with ‘Dronikus’ a finalist for Science Fiction Novel of the Year!!
It’s a great story, up against some good competition for the award.
We’re proud to have published ‘Dronikus’, and look forward to seeing how far and where it flies to next.

30/04/2024

Woolloongabba Art Gallery is extending ‘Nowhere Fast’ exhibition for another week, so if you haven’t seen the photos - or if you want to view them again - you can do it this week.
Limited edition giclee prints signed by Paul O’Brien, Robert Forster and John Willsteed are for sale.
You can buy the book at the gallery, or

26/04/2024

Thanks to Woolloongabba Art Gallery for hosting our second ‘Nowhere Fast’ gallery talk last night, and for the full house of people who came along to hear the panel discuss DIY culture in Brisbane during the 1970s-80s.
And also thanks to for supporting this cultural history project, with the exhibition of Paul O’Brien’s photographs and the live music performances we’ve done during April.

23/04/2024

Join editors Anne Richards and Matthew Wengert at Toowong Library on Saturday 27 April to hear about how ‘Brisbane Bookshops’ was conceived and created.
https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/whats-on-and-events/event/brisbane-bookshops-172692309
Co-published by and
Available at:
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16/04/2024

Tree of man VII 1968 Now held in a Brisbane private collection, Tree of man VII was exhibited in Sydney at Rudy Komon’s gallery in April / May 1968. Catalogued at $2,000 in the show of the series, the painting was later exhibited in QAGOMA’s 2019-20 retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work Jon Molvig: Maverick.
Author Bruce Heiser will be at Brisbane Square Library on Friday evening (19/4) to talk about his book on Molvig’s ‘Tree of Man’ paintings series.
https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/whats-on-and-events/event/meet-bruce-heiser-172577630

13/04/2024

Full house last night for panel discussion Punk, Politics and the Police. Thanks to speakers Mark Bracken, Carole Ferrier, Jeanelle Hurst, and Edwina Shaw.

Next event Friday April 26th: Panel discussion Culture and Community 6pm at Woolloongabba Art Gallery

Nowhere Fast gallery exhibition showing until April 27th

More info: https://www.andalsobooks.com/latest-events

06/04/2024

Thanks to everyone who came to the ‘Nowhere Fast’ book launch and exhibition opening last night, and especially to photographer Paul O’Brien and John Willsteed and Robert Forster for their creative work.
This project was generously supported by the Queensland government through funding from — which all went to local artists and small businesses.
Thanks again to designer and print management by — we couldn’t have published the book without your work on it!!
Paul’s photograph prints are available at Woolloongabba Art Gallery for the next few weeks, at various prices for A2 / A3 / A4 giclee (archival) prints on 300gsm cotton rag paper.

04/04/2024

Nowhere Fast… At last.
We’re launching ‘Nowhere Fast: Punk and Post-punk Brisbane 1978-1982’ tonight — book launch and exhibition opening — Paul O’Brien’s powerful and quirky images up on the wall (and for sale).

21/03/2024

Look alive... We're launching 'Nowhere Fast' at Woolloongabba Art Gallery on Friday 5 April.
The exhibition of Paul O'Brien's photographs runs for three weeks, and includes two panel discussions, and live music.
Check out https://www.andalsobooks.com/latest-events for details.

AndAlso Books is a small publishing house based in Brisbane specialising in art, design, music cultu

21/03/2024

We love the smell of ink in the morning… and in the afternoon, and evening, and anytime.
Here’s a peek at our next book being printed (photos courtesy of ).
‘Nowhere Fast’ is a unique creative documentation of Brisbane’s punk/post-punk era, as captured by photographer Paul O’Brien.
An exhibition of Paul’s photographs will open at (Woolloongabba Art Gallery) on 5 April, when the ‘Nowhere Fast’ book is being launched.
More details coming soon.

18/03/2024

We’ve got something to crow about — ‘Dronikus’ has been short-listed for the Best Science Fiction Novel at the Aurealis Awards.
Congratulations for conceiving a story that is original and powerful, yet completely relatable for today’s readers.
‘Dronikus’ is available now in bookshops and online.

15/03/2024

Big heartfelt thanks to the for hosting the hometown launch of Uncle Noel Blair’s memoir, ‘Man on a Mission’ at Cherbourg yesterday. Uncle Noel shared his stories with friends old and new, and even donated one of his old Aboriginal Legal Service patrol diaries to the Museum for historical safekeeping and sharing with a wider audience.
Thanks to everyone who attended this special event.

06/03/2024

Uncle Noel Blair is celebrating his newly-published memoir at Cherbourg. Free to attend and all are welcome! Afternoon tea will be provided.

Thursday 14th March 1:30-3:00pm at Ration Shed Museum: 19 Barambah Avenue, Cherbourg

Man on a Mission: From Cherbourg to Lake Gkula launch is co-published by AndAlsoBooks & Woodfordia with event hosted at Ration Shed Museum

05/03/2024

Feels great to be featured in the brilliant this week, with an interview about ‘Brisbane Bookshops’.
Thank you Elise!!
https://backstreetbrisbane.com/2024/03/04/brisbane-bookshops-an-interview-with-matthew-wengert-anne-richards-and-bianca-millroy/
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24/02/2024

Join author Ross Wilson at Brisbane Square Library on Sunday 3 March 10.30-11.30, to hear the story of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s relationships with members of the Cilento family, and her son Vivian Walker’s incredibly creative (but sadly short) life.

22/02/2024

Uncle Noel Blair will launch his memoir - Man on a Mission - at Cherbourg in mid-March.
The is kindly hosting this event on Thursday 14 March, with an afternoon tea to follow the launch. All welcome!

08/02/2024

Thanks to the creative writers at InReview (Queensland) for this review of Uncle Noel Blair's memoir, 'Man on a Mission' (co-published by AndAlso Books and ).
See the review and find the book at your local bookshop.

Woodford Folk Festival's Uncle Noel Blair is a living legend whose fascinating life story is finally being told by him in a new book

30/01/2024

It’s gratifying to see Uncle Noel’s little book on top-ten selling list for the week — thanks to the well attended launch on Friday. We’re proud to have co-published this memoir with and add another important voice to the Indigenous history of Queensland.

26/01/2024

Full house on Friday at to hear Uncle Noel Blair in conversation about his memoir Man on A Mission. Thanks to all who attended.

18/01/2024

Special Event: An Evening with Uncle Noel Blair

Friday January 26th @ 130pm. Free entry with limited capacity.

Register: https://avidreader.com.au/pages/9066-NoelBlair-ManonaMission

Join us for a panel featuring Uncle Noel, Geoff Evans and Matthew Wengert as they discuss Uncle Noel's recently-published memoir Man on a Mission. Uncle Noel’s story inspires and teaches: it is Jinibara truth-telling.

"For those who want a ‘street view’ of how Aboriginal people were treated by too many police, public servants and government departments particularly in the 1970s and 1980s this is an educative read. Noel’s story exposes the suffocating practices of government bureaucrats that categorise the Stolen Generation and the paternalistic Aboriginal ‘reserves’ era."
- Terry O’Gorman (civil liberties lawyer)

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18/12/2023

We’re happy that .brown76 liked ‘Brisbane Bookshops’ and has included his own personal bookshop memories in his kind review of our anthology
https://inreview.com.au/inreview/books-and-poetry/2023/12/18/many-a-tale-to-be-told-in-this-page-turner/

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11/12/2023

https://avidreader.com.au/pages/8750-PatComben-TommyRyanandtheBirthofLabor

09/12/2023

We’re honored to have Australian National living treasure David Malouf at our launch of last night , with wonderful taking the role of MC to keep the event moving smoothly! Thank you to everyone who came to help us celebrate this book, and the booksellers of Brisbane.
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03/12/2023

One of the privileges of publishing Ross Wilson’s remarkable story — ‘This Accidental Present’ — was working with Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s family, and knowing them as collaborators and friends.
(Extract from ‘The Past’ is used with permission.)
is available .books.peregian.beach

02/12/2023

We’re launching ‘Brisbane Bookshops’ this Friday evening at cafe.
Join the authors, editors, and many of Brisbane’s best booksellers to celebrate this cultural history of our best bookshops.

02/12/2023

25/11/2023

Thanks to for hosting Pat Comben’s event last night at the Commissariat Store — and thanks to the enthusiastic audience full of historians and devotees of Queensland history.
is proud to have helped bring this significant story to a wider public.

23/11/2023

Join us for the launch of Tommy Ryan and the Birth of Labor

Author and researcher Pat Comben will be in conversation with Dr David Hamill, former Treasurer of Queensland. Q & A and book signings to follow.

Free event at Avid Reader, tickets here:
https://avidreader.com.au/pages/8750-PatComben-TommyRyanandtheBirthofLabor

22/11/2023

What… did you think elves did it all?