McPhee Gribble was a Carlton

Carlton, Victoria

Carlton is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Melbourne...

-based Australia

Australia

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n publisher. Founded in 1975 by Diana Gribble and Hilary McPhee, McPhee Gribble was the initial publisher of works by significant Australian writers including Tim Winton

Tim Winton

Timothy John "Tim" Winton , is an Australian novelist and short story writer.-Life:Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany....

, Helen Garner

Helen Garner

Helen Garner is an award-winning Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.-Life:Garner was born in Geelong, Victoria, the eldest of six children. She attended Manifold Heights State School, Ocean Grove State School and then The Hermitage in Geelong...

, Rod Jones, Brian Matthews

Brian Matthews

Brian Matthews is an actor, best known for acting in daytime soap operas in the 1980s.Matthews and co-stars Holly Hunter, Jason Alexander, and Fisher Stevens all made their film debuts in The Burning . He then played Eric Garrison on the soap opera The Young and the Restless from 1983-1985...

, Murray Bail

Murray Bail

Murray Bail is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction.He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He has lived most of his life in Australia except for sojourns in India and England and Europe...

, Kaz Cooke

Kaz Cooke

Kaz Cooke is an Australian author and cartoonist. Her books include Real Gorgeous, Up the Duff , Kidwrangling, Girl Stuff and Living with Crazy Buttocks, which won the 2002 Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year...

, Martin Flanagan, John Misto, and Jennifer Dabbs. It entered into a "co-publishing" agreement with Penguin Australia

Penguin Group

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 in 1983. In 1989 it was sold to and became an imprint

Imprint

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of Penguin.