The longlisted titles, from an entry field of 132 print and ebooks in the non-fiction category are: The Story of Australia’s People Volume 1: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia, by Geoffrey Blainey and published by Penguin Books; The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia, by Frank Bongiorno and published by Black Inc. Books; Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather, by Karen Lamb and published by University of Queensland Press; Australia’s Boldest Experiment War and Reconstruction in the 1940s, by Stuart Macintyre and published by NewSouth Books; Illicit Love Interracial Sex & Marriage in the United States & Australia, by Ann McGrath and published by University of Nebraska Press; Across the Seas Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History, by Klaus Neumann and published by Black Inc Books; Mannix, by Brenda Niall and published by Text Publishing; and Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific 1939-45: Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War, by Yorick Smaal and published by Palgrave Macmillan.