A compelling career memoir by an award-winning neuroscientist describes how while studying his own family’s brain scans for research he made the disturbing discovery that his own reflected a pattern…

Richard Bradford’s highly entertaining book looks at some of the closest and most complex friendships in literary history and examines the fallout on relationships and on literature itself.

This beautifully illustrated book celebrates the horse in Australia past and present. From Cobb & Co to Black Caviar, from the Walers of World War I to The Man from…

A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of ‘Americanah’ and ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’, based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name.

An urgent, uncompromising and heartfelt insider’s account of what it is like to be poor and working-class in the modern West

He was the reforming leader who made Victoria a leader in social equality, the arts, and the environment. He and his government built the underground rail loop, decriminalised homosexuality, abolished…

After being seriously wounded in the 1939 Polish campaign, Rochus Misch was invited to join Hitler’s SS-bodyguard. There he served until the war’s end as Hitler’s bodyguard, courier, orderly and…

How many of us sometimes feel that we are scratching at the walls of this life, seeking to find our way into a wider space beyond? That our mild, polite…