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Moby
The second volume of Moby’s extraordinary life story is a journey into the dark heart of fame and the demons that lurk just beneath the bling and bluster of the…
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Greta Thunberg
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations –
Tanya Heaslip
A bittersweet story of a search for identity, belonging and love, set in a time, a place and with a man that fill Tanya’s life with contradictions.
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Ani DiFranco
A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco
Tim Parks
A revelatory read with delightful cultural and literary references, Teach us to Sit Still by Booker-shortlisted author Tim Parks examines how the philosophy of ‘sit still, relax and stop worrying’…
Mark Vonnegut
Vonnegut recalls the past 35 years of his life–from Harvard Medical School and a brilliant pediatrics career to the terrifying return of mental illness–while also reflecting on his unique New…
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Samuel Beckett
The Letters of Samuel Beckett makes available for the first time a comprehensive range of letters of one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. This volume covers…
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Sebastian Terry
Have you ever allowed yourself time to think about what’s really important to you? Something you have always dreamed of doing? In a moment of reflection after the loss of…
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Joe Bageant,Ken Smith
‘I’m so damn average that what I write resonates with people’, Joe Bageant said in explaining how he gained a global following for his web-published essays. In 2004 at the…
Antoine de Baecque
– From Edward Scissorhands to Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton hassucceeded in creating a body of work that is both extraordinarilyeccentric, inventive and personal, and extremely popular– Supported by interviews…
Ray Martin
‘Ray’s Favourite People’ is a book that brings together the most remarkable people Ray Martin met during his own hugely successful career in journalism.
Peter FitzSimons
The story of Australias most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar exploration Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton
Grahame Bond
Things were never quite the same once Aunty Jack roared onto our television screens in the 1970s, threatening to rip our bloody arms off. In this funny and moving memoir…
Michaela McGuire,Marieke Hardy
A collection of the letters from the hugely popular Women of Letters literary events, featuring a wide range of Australian talent, including writers, musicians, politicians, comedians and actors.
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Walter Isaacson
* An extraordinary book which gives us a unique insight into the life and thinking of the man who has single-handedly transformed the way we live today
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Josef Eisinger
At the height of his fame, Albert Einstein was a habitual globetrotter. During these voyages, between 1922 and 1933, he was in the habit of keeping travel diaries in which…
Anne Henderson
This landmark book re-establishes Lyons as one of Australia’s most capable and popular leaders and reminds us of why he was the first Australian prime minister to win and survive…
Robbie McEwen,Edward Pickering
Professional road cyclist Robbie McEwen will do whatever it takes to win on a bike. He is proud of his reputation as a ‘competitive little bugger’ and ‘a bit of…
Peter Ruehl
Peter Ruehl’s humorous columns on life, family and politics have been one of the Australian Financial Review’s most beloved and prominent features for more than two decades.
Andrew Graham Dixon
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. This book presents the readings of Caravaggio’s pictures, which show how he created…
Paul Kelly
Over four nights the author performed, in alphabetical order, one hundred of his songs from the previous three decades. In between songs he told stories about them. This title is…
Andrew Robb
His memoirs document the private struggle and the public life of the Liberal Party’s chief political strategist. It offers readers an insight into one man’s lifelong battle with a private…
Peter Baines
Peter Baines started out as a police officer in the mean streets of Cabramatta in the early nineties. Becoming a specialist in crime scene forensic investigations he was called upon…
Carol Altmann
A hobby farm south of Hobart sounds idyllic but author Carol Altmann discovers a tree-change is sometimes not all it is written up to be.
Stacy Schiff
Cleopatra’s palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death…
Alex Skovron
After the Germans invaded Poland, Jacob G. Rosenberg was confined with his family in the Lodz Ghetto until they were sent to Auschwitz. All the members of his family (except…
Don Watson
The long awaited authorised biography of Paul Keating’s four years as Australia’s Prime Minister. Written by his speech writer, this book is based on notes made during his term of…
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Mitchell Peter
A memoir of the author Peter Mitchell’s time in the Department of Immigration. It takes us from his early stint chasing down visa overstayers through to his time as manager…
Malcolm Andrews
Explorer, pioneer aviator, war photographer, naturalist, meteorologist, author, student of the paranormal, and secret agent; loyal lieutenant to Shackleton, Bean and Hearst; the last man from the West to meet…
Fiona Harari
This is the remarkable story of two outstanding Australians whose lives were lived large, loud and often compartmentalised– and who, ultimately, have been bound by tragedy.
Christopher Hitchens
A collection of the most important and controversial writings from the unapologetically provocative yet universally admired Christopher Hitchens.
Jeff Apter
From the remote outback to the world stage, the far from ordinary life so far of one of Australia’s most talented and beloved singer-songwriters. Raised on the Nullarbor by her…
Raimond Gaita
In 1998, Raimond Gaita’s Romulus, My Father was first published;the story of his father who came to Australia from Europe with his young wife Christine and their four-year-old son after…
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Marieke Hardy
From childhood dreams of prostitution to her unabashed passion for heavy drinking, from growing up wide-eyed on the set of Australian soaps to her infatuation with Bob Ellis, these are…
Troy Harvey
From full-time hypochondriac and first-time author Troy Harvey comes this collection of stories about one of the great traumas in a man’s life - going to the doctor’s. Intensely funny…
Kari Gislason
Born from a secret liaison between a British mother and an Icelandic father, Kari Gislason was the subject of a promise - a promise elicited from his father to not…
Sally Breen
Sally Breen gives voice to her generation - those somehow smashed in between all the X’s and the Y’s - maybe lost, maybe beat but most of all casual.
Jennifer Barrie
‘It all ended with a shipwreck. Ten years of planning, dreaming, plotting and scheming - gone in one night. Who even heard of shipwrecks these days? This is the 21st…
Antonio Buti
When somebody swindled the Perth Mint out of gold worth more than half a million dollars, the Mickelberg brothers, Ray, Peter and Brian, became the prime suspects. They were tried…
Craig Collie
Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, we follow a group of Nagasaki residents, (including several Australian POWs) from the early morning of the day of the bombing…
Robert Gottlieb,Gottlieb
Spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of an array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theatre, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic public…
Eileen Harrison,Carolyn Landon
A frank and powerful memoir of the life of an Aboriginal woman, from her early years on the Lake Tyers mission to discovery of her talent as a painter.
Steven Bach
A celebration of the life and times of one of the greatest female stars of all time.
Hannah Nordhaus
John Miller tasks himself with the care and safe transportation of billions of bees. He is descended from N E Miller, America’s first migratory beekeeper, and trucks his hives from…
John Hunt,Mueller
This is the true rags-to-riches story of Miss Andretti, the horse from nowhere, bred from nothing, who cost nothing, was originally trained by a nobody and yet conquered the racing…
In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs and reveals why the violence that now defines the American-Mexican border…
A compendium of never-before-collected quotations from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Christopher Hitchens on hundreds of subjects
Barbara Eden
Over the past four decades, the landmark television series I Dream of Jeannie has enchanted several generations of fans and inspired millions of teenage crushes on its beautiful blonde star…
