Biography

Whether negotiating the mind-games of border security services or performing ablutions in a London bathroom, Mohammad Chowdhury's life travelling the world brings daily challenges. Border Crossings is a thrilling ride...

One of the drawbacks of writing funny, irreverent and - worse yet - honest travel books is that you can't stop your parents from reading them. Because once they have...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of You Are Mighty, a real-life derring-do woman, a collection of exhilarating stories, activities, and tips to inspire girls to pursue a life...

Pop-culture phenomenon, social rights advocate, and the most prominent LGBTQ+ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you Binge , his New York Times bestselling collection of witty, personal, and hilarious...

Proclaimed "girl-pervert" Oriana Small, AKA Ashley Blue, a veritable artist at heart, weaves through the intricacies of a decade in and out of the adult film industry, love, drugs, and...

The inspiring story from 2025 NSW Young Australian of the Year Nominee, Alex Noble, whose wisdom and strength can teach us all how to live life to the fullest, no...

The gut-wrenching story of how one of Australia's finest surfers overcame a brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal. On the morning of 10 December 2015, Owen Wright...

'Kwajo's voice is leading the call for change on behalf of a generation who have been seriously failed by Westminster.' Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester 'A brilliant thinker and...

David Moore's cultural contribution to Australia's photographic heritage has been included in this updated edition with many new photographs and a recent interview in which he looked back on a...

This story is so amazing at times one could be excused for believing that it is more fiction than fact. Very much in the vein of Angela's Ashes and Leaving...

Sue Walker tells the story of her magazine editor grandfather against the larger backdrop of Australian history and cultural growth. William Shum was a pioneer in Australian magazines, as founding...

Most people only know her as Justin Bieber's mom, but Pattie Mallette has had an incredible journey of her own. Many people have heard of her son's rags to riches...

Hannah Nyala escaped from an abusive marriage, risking everything to save herself and her two children. But then she and her children were subjected to more terror, as her husband...

With the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist. Kapuscinski has been visiting Africa since...

Peter Newlinds worked for ABC Radio Grandstand for 18 years through the 1990s and 2000s. His name and voice will be familiar to cricket followers around Australia, and also to...

A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out. When told that...

Andrea Mohr's CV is an eye-opening read: drug runner, hostess, money launderer, drug dealer and importer amongst other things. Alongside this was a glamorous life filled with travel, movie stars...

An engaging and illuminating biography focused on the formative and highly influential early years of "rock's first supergroup" ( Rolling Stone ) Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young-when they were the...

The Carandiru House of Detention, in the teeming city of Sao Paulo, was the largest and most crowded prison in Latin America. Known as the 'Old House', it was also...

Imagine you're a 35 year old, white, British, middle-class business man sentenced to three years in Big Spring, one of America's most notorious prisons. You've been told that if get...

Profiles celebrities from Jean Harlow and Douglas Fairbanks to Elvis Presley and Robert Mapplethorpe by looking at their wills, which reveal a surprising amount of information about their lives.

Wonderful anecdotes about a childhood during the Depression from AmericaA's Queen of Suspense. Full of memorable characters, this sometimes funny, sometimes sad, memoir brings into sharp focus the feeling of...

Storytellers and bards have always been with us from the mists of deepest antiquity to the present. Alistair Brooks is one of the more recent in this long line of...

This volume presents one of the richest and most comprehensive collections of writings by Nikolai Tesla, a founding figure of the modern electrical power industry and long-time rival of Thomas...

Recent years have seen a remarkable growth of interest in revolution and social upheaval, Marxism and other ideologies of the left, and the movements inspired by them. As a Marxist...

A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France. As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many...

Like everything human, it started with sex. In 1955, fourteen-year-old Tony found himself entangled with a married Catholic woman. When the woman's husband learnt of their involvement, he whisked Tony...

An extraordinary story of one woman's attempt to survive the horrors of Vichy France. A bitter, beautiful and important book Robert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENT The French sensation, now in English...

Published by Penguin for more than fifty years, Evelyn Waugh is one of the greatest satirical writers of the twentieth century. In this irreverent personal account of the crowning of...

From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty, My Favorite Things, and Women Holding Things comes a moving meditation in words and pictures...

"A child's garden of vices, My Booky Wook is also a relentless ride with a comic mind clearly at the wheel.... The bloke can write. He rhapsodizes about heroin better...

' Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'An instant classic of British nature-writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH A few years...