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A compelling investigation into the early life of Dame Mary Gilmore and her two adventurous years in South America.In a remarkable blend of biography and travel writing, Anne Whitehead follows in the footsteps of the young Australian poet Mary Gilmore, from the former socialist colonies of Paraguay...
The true story of an English drug-smuggler, a notorious Bolivian prison and enough cocaine to cover the Andes ... Rusty Young, a twenty-something Australian law graduate, was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, an English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's...
An incredible collection of true crime characters from Australia's master storyteller.The bold, the bad, and the slightly mad...Criminality, some say, is part of Australia's national identity, and in Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags Jim Haynes profiles fifteen larger-than-life Aussie...
From the detective who helped catch the Golden State Killer, a memoir about investigating America's toughest cold cases, and the rewards - and toll - of a life spent solving crime. For a decade, from 1973, The Golden State Killer stalked and murdered Californians in the dead of night, leaving...
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in...
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager is a rollicking memoir of one womanÂs life on outback cattle stations, and an homage to the many unsung women like her. It was the 1980s and Sally was in her early 20s when she returned from a backpacking sojourn and hitchhiked to AustraliaÂs far north....
One teacher. One school. One year. Brendan James Murray has been a high school teacher for more than ten years. In that time he has seen hundreds of kids move through the same hallways and classrooms - boisterous, angry, shy, big-hearted, awkward - all of them on the journey to adulthood. In The...
Neale Daniher sat down to pen a letter to the grandchildren heÂll never get to know. And then he kept on writing In 2013, the AFL legend was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease  a cruel and incurable disease. He knew he had a choice. He could spend his remaining time on earth focussed on...
A Sunday Times No 1. bestseller, I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's life in near-death experiences. A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. A terrifying...
On Saturday 12th October 2002, Australian nurses, Therese Fox and Bronwyn CartwrightÂs idyllic holiday descended into their worst nightmare when they unwittingly found themselves in the midst of a callously orchestrated terrorist attack on two popular Balinese tourist nightspots which claimed the...
Mat Rogers is an Aussie footy legend and TV star who has triumphed over hardship, loss and heartache. He is finally ready to share his powerful life story. He is one of the most talented footballers of the modern era and a dual international in rugby league and rugby union. But for a long time, Mat...
It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where and who I am today. I'm only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that's young to write a memoir. Who does that, right? But for me and my team it's always been important to reflect on every...
A true story of survival and triumph against incredible odds, now a major motion picture starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara. When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines. Saroo had become lost on a train in India at...
From influential and iconic star Constance Wu, a powerful and poignant memoir-in-essays full of funny and intimate observations that will resonate with readers everywhere. Growing up in the friendly suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, Constance Wu thought that girls were supposed to be reserved,...
They just Vanished - Disappeared. Gone. Lost. No answers. Still missing. Imagine the pain, confusion and emotional roller-coaster that families experience when a loved one goes missing. What would you do? How would your family cope? This is a heart- wrenching collection of true stories told through...
All proceeds from this book will be donated to Fight MND. Justin Yerbury made a promise to his mother while she was dying of motor neurone disease (MND) that he would do everything he could to find a cure. MND had already taken several members of JustinÂs family, and he learned that they carried a...
Exploring dislocation and longing, Sarah Krasnostein dives into Peter Carey's literary tour de force, True History of the Kelly Gang, in this latest offering from the stunning Writers on Writers essay series.Award-winning writer Sarah Krasnostein shines new light on the impossibly vulnerable Ned...
The bestselling author of Going Under recounts her real-life journey from hard-partying Sydney medical intern to dust-covered rural GP. 'Sonia Henry writes with a combination of heart and precision that only the best writers, and doctors, can manage.' Nick Earls Solo GP needed for medical clinic,...
Grace Kelly: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon is a stunning illustrated biography of style and screen legend Grace Kelly, from internationally renowned fashion illustrator Megan Hess. Oscar-winning actress, muse to one of the greatest directors of all time, global fashion icon and European...