title: Hale & Iremonger
text: # Hale & Iremonger
  
  Hale & Iremonger is an Australian independent publisher. It was founded in 1977 by Sylvia Hale, John Iremonger and Roger Barnes.
  
  John left the company in 1980, moving to Allen & Unwin. By 2002, when Sylvia became involved in NSW state politics, some 500 books had been published on politics, urban history, women's studies and poetry.
  
  In 2010 Hale & Iremonger's list was bought by Michael Rakusin, formerly of Tower Books.
  
  ## Selected publications
  
  Books published by Hale & Iremonger include:
  
  ### Nonfiction
  
  * Bettison, Margaret; Summers, Anne (1979). Her story : Australian women in print 1788–1975. Anne Roberts (photographer). Hale & Iremonger. ISBN 978-0-908094-52-3.
  * Roe, Jill, ed. (1980). Twentieth century Sydney : studies in urban and social history. Hale & Iremonger in association with the Sydney History Group. ISBN 978-0-908094-62-2.
  * Webby, Elizabeth (1982). Early Australian poetry : an annotated bibliography of original poems published in Australian newspapers, magazines & almanacks before 1850. Hale & Iremonger. ISBN 978-0-908094-91-2.
  * Dawson, Madge; Radi, Heather, eds. (1984). Against the odds fifteen professional women reflect on their lives & careers. Sydney, NSW Hale & Iremonger. ISBN 978-0-86806-183-2.
  
  ### Biography and autobiography
  
  * Magarey, Susan (1985). Unbridling the tongues of women : a biography of Catherine Helen Spence. Hale & Iremonger. ISBN 0868061506.
  * Moyal, Ann (1995). Breakfast with Beaverbrook : memoirs of an independent woman. Hale & Iremonger. ISBN 978-0-86806-569-4.
  * Stewart, Douglas (1983). Springtime in Taranaki : an autobiography of youth. Hale & Iremonger. ISBN 978-0-86806-096-5.
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * Dobson, Rosemary (1984). The three fates & other poems. Hale & Iremonger. ISBN 978-0-86806-133-7. Winner of the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, 1985
  * Kefala, Antigone (1988). European notebook. Hale & Iremonger. ISBN 978-0-86806-335-5.
  * Skrzynecki, Peter; Dickerson, Robert (1989). Night swim : poems (1978–1988). Hale & Iremonger. ISBN 978-0-86806-363-8.
  * Tranter, John (1982). Selected poems. Hale & Iremonger. ISBN 978-0-86806-029-3.
  
  ## Authors
  
  Other authors of books published by Hale & Iremonger include Doris Brett, Hazel Edwards, Ross Fitzgerald, Libby Gleeson, Robert Hughes, Grace Karskens, Mark O'Connor, Ron Pretty.
  
  