Biography

'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...

Chapman now lives reclusively in Manhattan, where he is learning to accept that he will never outshine Charles Darwin. As part of this process he recently took a trip to...

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...

Sydney's leafy northern suburbs were a bastion of Christian conservatism in the 1970s, but the Roberts family was always a little different. If having lots of children, pets and parties...

In 1973 David Howison announced to his 17-year-old son Mark that they were going to walk around Australia to raise money to protect the kangaroos. Once he got over his...

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...

From the beginning of time in Aotearoa spirituality has been the very foundation upon which Maori culture was built. Many stories have been passed down through the ages of great...

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...

'Banks has told his story in a raw and honest autobiography. It is the best true crime book published in Australia in a decade.' -John Silvester, Crime Reporter for The...

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...

Jenna Bush, daughter of President and Mrs. Bush, shares the poignant story of a 17-year-old single mother living with HIV in Panama - an inspiring story of strength and survival."Ana's...

' 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...

As well as an account of Father Radcliffe's life from his childhood and education at Ampleforth to his calling to a life of poverty and religious observance, this book contains...

The follow-up to the 2 million-copy-selling autobiography Losing My Virginity, documenting the incredible truth of the last twenty years in Sir Richard Branson's life. 50 years ago, Sir Richard Branson...