Explores Australian book production and consumption from 1946 to the present day. In the immediate postwar era, most books were imported into a colonial market dominated by British publishers.
Craig Munro, former publishing manager at UQP, is the author of the award-winning biography "Wild Man of Letters: The Story of P.R. Stephensen" (1984) and a history of UQP, "The Writer's Press" (1998). He won the Barbara Ramsden Award for Editing in 1985 and studied book publishing in Canada and the US on a Churchill Fellowship in 1991. He has been an adviser to the Literature Board of the Australia Council and was the founding chair of the Queensland Writers' Centre.