02 An inspiring story of adventure, a passion for flying and the thrill of following a dream. Discover one of Australia's pioneers in this story of unsung aviator Lester Brain. 03 Who on earth was Lester Brain? Neil Ca

Kathleen Stewart has published seven works of fiction, a book of short stories, and two collections of poems, and has been widely admired and praised for her writing, even earning a comparison with Patrick White. Yet nothing she has

01 Growing up, Kelly Denley had dreamed of the perfect family - and of being the perfect mum, but as the mother of eight she discovered that almost perfect was actually just perfect enough â?¦ After years of being a full-time (and th

In 'Unreliable Memoirs' we meet a very young Clive James. 'Falling Towards England' tells how, having happily failed to land a suitable job, he moves into a Swiss Cottage BandB. 'May Week was in June' sees Clive at Cambridge

In 1995, Anna Wood was 15 years old, pretty, popular, with her whole life ahead of her. One night she went to a dance party where she took an ecstacy tablet. Three days later she was dead.

The story of the 14-day entombment and rescue of the Beaconsfield miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb, and the fascinating aftermath. Updated, with new epilogue.

Examines the issues of terminal illness, how we die and different attitudes towards mortality. This title covers issues such as: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, grief, chemotherapy, death and dying, world politics, Darfur, Sud

At 26, Mary Ellen Jordan left Melbourne's inner city to spend a year working in Maningrida, a coastal Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land. She made the journey expecting to work side by side with the indigenous community, th

?If only I hadn't gone to work that day. If only I had gone to the soccer gala day instead. If only Caroline and India had walked a foot to the left or to the right. If only they had passed those goalposts a second or two sooner, a se

Dennis McIntosh started working as a boy, to earn enough money to by a horse called Granite. His first job was picking onions - hard, dull, badly paid. And in the end, not enough - Granite was sold to someone else. Uninter

01 No matter how hard he tried, Alan Close couldn't stay in a relationship. Then, at the age of 43, after yet another breakup, he decided he was going to find out what was going wrong - and make a change. What followed was a painful

01 It wasn't until years later that I realized the obvious - the difference between us and the mythical normal family I was certain existed, was in fact the fictional? There is always so much more and it swims, shimmering beneath the

The Boyd family is Australia's most remarkable artistic dynasty. This work traces the emergence of an extraordinary artistic tradition. It places the Boyds in their historical and personal contexts, and tells the interwoven

Bradman and Wisden: the names are synonymous with cricket. More than that, they have in their unique ways entered the English language as shorthand for statistical achievements, records and authority.

However, Si

The extraordinary life of 'Captain' Charles Gordon O'Neill, colonial engineer, inventor, parliamentarian and philanthropist, and principle co-founder of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia and New Zealand.

The acclaimed and controversial biography of one of Australia's most loved prime ministers. Many of the policies of his Labour government introduced after World War II came to define modern Australia. But who was the man who worked hi

02 An evocative memoir of a young Chinese girl growing up in conservative Tasmania in the 1950s. 03 Ching Chong China Girlportrays four generations of Tasmanian Chinese and canvasses changes from White to Multicultural Australia. Hele

This biography is of Christina Stead, born in Australia in 1902, and who sailed to England at age twenty-six, and not returning to Australia until she was 72. This intellectually rigorous and riveting tells of Stead's life,

AWARDED SPECIAL JURY MENTION AT THE BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM AND BOOK FESTIVAL 2007 Foreword by Lachlan Murdoch. The day I summitted Mount Everest was the day I died. Lincoln Hall set off for Everest in early May 2006. Five weeks after re

"A Family History of Smoking" is a wonderfully compelling memoir about two European Jewish families living through the last gasps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Andrew Riemer begins his memoir with the story of his gre

The film "Rabbit-Proof Fence" is based on a true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home. Under Western Australia's removal policy of

01 In 1959 David Hill's mother â?? a poor single parent living in England â?? reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales where, she was led to believe, they would have a good education and a bett

Find out what life's like on the other side of 50 from 30 prominent Australians who share their stories with humour and insight. It's going to happen to us all eventually and how we cope with it may, in the end, define us. For some gr

Young, cocksure, handsome and absurdly talented, Australian actor Heath Ledger shot to prominence with his first Hollywood film "10 Things I Hate About You": and a star was born.With huge charisma and smouldering looks