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Sir Frank Packer, to put it mildly, was a most controversial figure in the sporting, newspaper, political and financial worlds. Sir Frank is regarded as a legendary Australian business and...

This collection of first-hand experiences documents great sporting achievements like the first four-minute mile, terrible disasters like the sinking of the Titanic, sensational crimes such as the Great Train Robbery,...

From the playgrounds of Glasgow to the villages of Bangladesh; from religious rites to ancient superstitions; from the world's richest people to its powerless and enslaved, Lorna Gibb's masterful Childless...

A book for our times, sharing stories of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the generosity of a man who understood hardship. A book for our times, sharing stories...

Following on from the success of her first memoir, A Year in the Mud the Toast and the Tears, popular South Australian author Georgie Brooks give us Semi-Educated, a laugh-out-loud...

"In this hilarious, uplifting memoir, Wolfe describes her intense bond with Harlow...as she grapples with the chaos of her 20s, marriage, and eventually new motherhood."- Washington Post "An engaging debut...

The original authorised biography, and the only one written by an author who actually met J.R.R. Tolkien, reissued to mark Tolkien's 125th Anniversary. In more than 40 years since Tolkien's...

A revelatory and racy biography of the early life of Prince Philip. One of the most recognisable men in the United Kingdom, Prince Philip has been consort to Queen Elizabeth...

"[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she - or any Black student, or...

'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian 'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer 'Extraordinary . . ....

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe...

From the author of The Child that Books Built , a rapturous history of the amazing achievements of British engineers. Britain is the only country in the world to have...

This, the first biography to draw on a close study of the new "Complete Works", sheds a new light on this extraordinary literary figure through interviews with family and friends,...

There is a risk in telling another's story especially when passed down through the family and there are many layers to a life that each person may only glimpse part...

This issue is a tribute to a brilliant career. There are contributions from academic colleagues, many of them grateful ex-students. There are contributions from senior writers who remain grateful for...

The story of Jennie, Clara and Leonie Jerome is one of glamour, money and love in equal measure. Their father Leonard was a profligate New York stockbroker whose beautiful wife...

This is a personal account of Conrad's return to his Tasmanian homeland after 20 years. He tells of his upbringing there and describes the island's rivers, mountains and rain forests....

An engaging, thought-provoking biographny about the man on whom all hopes for a just peace in the Middle East may rest, King Hussein of Jordan. A lifelong opponent of Communism,...

An extraordinary narrative S Dean Powell, Western Mail 10/03/01

Australia's passionate conservationist and exuberant TV star Steve Irwin was loved all the world over for his massively successful wildlife series The Crocodile Hunter. At the age of 44, Steve...

Diesel: The Greg Williams Story is a biography detailing the career of Australian rules footballer Greg "Diesel" Williams, covering his journey from being rejected by Carlton to becoming a dual...

Highly observant, with a keen sense of the incongruous, Eric Newby is always entertaining as he transports the reader around the world, from his earliest childhood adventures among the shops,...

Grace Kelly's story is the quintessential America saga - the story of a radiantly beautiful girl born of immigrants - the daughter of a self-made millionaire - who grew up...

The popular stereotype of the scientist as mad boffin or weedy nerd has been peddled widely in film and fiction, with the implication that the world of science is far...

Saturday, 19 March 1932, the day of the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, one of the most significant occasions in the history of the city of Sydney. The public...

For the Love of My Mother is the tragic and uplifting story of one Irish mother and her son. Born into a life of poverty and detained at the tender...

This Supplement 1580-1980 is an adjunct to the first sixteen volumes of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, and includes people who played a part in Australia's history from the beginning...

Charles Wheeler, the BBC's longest-serving foreign correspondent, was one of Britain's greatest news reporters. For more than four decades, he reported for radio and television from most of the world's...

'Real and Reel' is a light-hearted, ironic account of a lifetime's addiction. It is one person's story, but it may strike familiar sparks among many others. Though there have been...

Since his death in 1930 at the age of 44, D.H. Lawrence has become a legend as both a writer and a man. In this book, Keith Sagar has written...

Who was Kitty Harris Born in London to an emigre Jewish family she was a key figure in Soviet espionage networks across the globe, running agents in London, Berlin, Shanghai,...

This book reconstructs the story of Roy Coupland Winn 1890-1963, Australia's first fulltime practising psychoanalyst, of whom it was said that he was 'dedicated to the continual inner search to...

A rich and diverting collection of essays, compiled by one of Australia's finest writers.