On an ordinary day, in an even more ordinary town, it was Albert's birthday.On an ordinary day, in an even more ordinary town, it was Albert's birthday.When Grandma Z roars into town on her motorcycle, Albert is swept up in a very extraordinary adventure...

How come I can never find my keys? Why don't I sleep as well? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp?How come I can never find my keys? Why don't I sleep as well? Why do my friends keep repeating the same...

'Too frequently, we leave it too late to start to think - but a crisis is never the best time for careful thought.''Too frequently, we leave it too late to start to think - but a crisis is never the best time for careful thought.'As Australia's...

These are the last adult witnesses - in their own words.These are the last adult witnesses - in their own words.When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he quickly began to realise his dream of a racially superior nation free of 'inferior'...

A radical, evidence-based new vision for healing.A radical, evidence-based new vision for healing.Twenty-five per cent of adults experience chronic health problems, such as back pain, headaches, obesity, fatigue, and depression. These illnesses are...

Accidental Death explores the reality of ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations when an accident upends their lives.This collection of stories centres on the idea of 'accidental death', and the upheaval caused in the lives of...

The bestselling guide to finding career success and satisfaction through Personality Type is now thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated.The bestselling guide to finding career success and satisfaction through Personality Type is now thoroughly...

The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun and Lady Cop Makes Trouble continues her extraordinary journey into the real lives of the forgotten but fabulous Kopp sisters.The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun and Lady Cop Makes Trouble...

Members of the last generation of inmates and staff return to the now-forgotten prison to tell the true and brutal story of Pentridge before developers bury it forever.Members of the last generation of inmates and staff return to the now-forgotten prison...

As the clock strikes the end of the war, the time begins to turn towards a new age - the one we call now.This shift does not happen overnight, from one day to the next; instead, the world vibrates for a number of years. People try to find their way back...

The must-read new memoir from one of psychiatry's most important figures.The must-read new memoir from one of psychiatry's most important figures.Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his...

The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists.The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists.With Dean Alston, Peter Broelman, Pat Campbell, Andrew...

The third in Jonathan King's acclaimed WW1 centennial trilogy.Culminating with the cavalry charge at Beersheba on 31 October 1917, Palestine Diaries is the story of Australia's Light Horsemen of WWI, told in their own brutally honest words - day by day,...

Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the page, this is the Nixon we've been waiting for.Richard Nixon opens with Navy lieutenant 'Nick' Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at...

Hundreds of Australian first-person narratives of World War I have been published, but none more riveting than this one.The wartime letters and diaries of Pompey Elliott, Australia's most famous fighting general, are exceptionally forthright. They are...

An explosive expose of the man and the ideas behind the well-heeled right's relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatise public education, and curb democratic majority rule.An explosive expose of the man and the ideas behind the...

Unlock your brain's hidden power.Too often, we humans tend to assume that nature is fixed, immutable - and this tendency is particularly strong when we think about matters of the mind and behaviour. People just can't change, we say, so they must somehow...

Rich with fascinating case studies, and eloquent in its defence of civil society, Watching Out is a beacon of legal liberalism in an intemporate age.When put to the test, most people have difficulty identifying what justice is, especially when there is...

Paul Keating- the big-picture leader is the definitive biography of Australia's 24th prime minister, and the first one that Keating has co-operated with in more than two decades.Drawing on around 15 hours of new interviews with Keating, coupled with...

An engrossing account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler.When the Nazi blitzkrieg rolled over continental Europe in the early days of World War...

Through the tide of hormones ebbing and flowing my body, and the little runnels of blood and the sour tang of my breasts, I lay awake, listening, and thinking of breath and of water. I had broken my relationship with sleep.Through the tide of hormones...

A modern-day quest novel from one of Korea's most renowned novelists.A modern-day quest novel from one of Korea's most renowned novelists.Princess Bari tells the story of a young girl, frail and brave, who escapes from famine and death in North Korea in...

From the author of the acclaimed Wolf in White Van comes a horror-infused thriller set in a tiny Midwestern town.Jeremy works at the counter of Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It's the 1990s, pre-DVD, and the work is predictable and familiar; he likes his...

Neuroscientist Gregory Berns had spent decades using MRI imaging technology to study how the human brain works, but a different question still nagged at him- What is my dog thinking?After his family brought home Callie, a shy, skinny terrier mix, Berns...

An incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy. An incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in...

The lyrical, bestselling 2014 German Book Prize winner, from the winner of the 2023 Georg Buchner Prize.It is 1989, and a young literature student named Ed, fleeing unspeakable tragedy, travels to the Baltic island of Hiddensee. Long shrouded in myth,...

Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe and those laws we do have are feebly enforced. Every new year is the hottest in human history, while forest, reef, ice, tundra, and species are disappearing forever. It is easy to lose all hope...

Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr.Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr.Paul Robeson was a prize-winning scholar and the greatest footballer of his era, even before he ascended to global superstardom as a singer, Hollywood actor, and activist. The son of an...

Drawing on a variety of primary sources, Lynne Olson skilfully depicts the dramatic personal journeys of these men who, determined to save Britain from Hitler, helped convince a cautious FDR and reluctant American public to back the British at a critical...

In What about Me?, Paul Verhaeghe's main concern is how social change has led to this psychic crisis and altered the way we think about ourselves.According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure...

Michael Jackson's former bodyguards reveal the amazing truths of the late superstar's last years - his life with his children, his financial crises, and the weeks leading up to his shocking death.Michael Jackson's former bodyguards reveal the amazing...

Out of nowhere in 2004, this obscure religious sect burst onto the political stage in Australia. Almost unheard of until then, the Exclusive Brethren was suddenly spending up big in election advertising in support of conservative political parties. But...

FromOccupy Wall Streetto Tahrir Square, and fromNelson Mandelato Harvey Milk, the tales Popovic tells are hilarious, accessible, inspiring, at times outrageous, and always about ordinary people achieving extraordinary things.How Do Ordinary People Become...

The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists.The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists. With Dean Alston, Peter Broelman, Warren Brown, Pat...

Sciencehistorian Laurel Braitman draws on evidence from across the world to show, for the first time, how astonishingly similar humans and other animals are when it comes to their emotional wellbeing.Sciencehistorian Laurel Braitman draws on evidence...

What are our bodies really capable of?What are our bodies really capable of?We like to sit in air-conditioned comfort, yet each year millions of ordinary people train in CrossFit boxes, compete in Tough Mudders, and challenge themselves in Spartan races...

A daring feat of narrative imagination and linguistic creativity,Tram 83uses the rhythms of jazz to weave a tale of human relationships in a world that has become a global village.A pulsating novel of urban abandonment in the Congo.In an unnamed African...

An international bestseller delivering good news on brain function and ageing. Published here in English for the first time, this is a refreshing, informative, and ultimately reassuring examination of what happens to our most important organ as we grow...

Although generals, historians, and war scholars have had their stories told many times, it is only now, when we read the private words of the men at the front-line, that we can glimpse what Gallipoli was really like.Gallipoli, for the average Australian,...

Since its US debut, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of...

This is the largely unknown story of another Anzac force, which fought not at Gallipoli, but in Greece, during World War II.This is the largely unknown story of another Anzac force, which fought not at Gallipoli, but in Greece, during World War II...

"I am as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was, is, or can be; though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second, yet I endeavour to be Margaret the First.""I am as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was, is, or can be; though I cannot be Henry the...

This is one of the few books about Australian political life written by an insider with decades of exposure to its major players. Hilarious, moving, and endlessly fascinating, Savva's is a story that moves between countries, cultures, careers and,...

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. David Schnarch, one of the foremost experts on sexuality and relationships, explains why normal healthy couples in long-term relationships have sexual desire problems, regardless of how much they love each other or how...

Vibrant and enchanting, Familiar Things depicts a society on the edge of dizzying economic and social change, and is a haunting reminder to us all to be careful of what we throw away.Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea's glittering metropolis is a...

Based on 'The Queen of Katwe', a finalist for a National Magazine Award and included in Dave Eggers' The Best American Nonrequired Reading, this is the true story of a female prodigy from the Ugandan slum of Katwe.This is the true story of a female...

So sad today? Many are. Melissa Broder is too. How and why did she get to be so sad? And should she stay sad?So sad today? Many are. Melissa Broder is too. How and why did she get to be so sad? And should she stay sad?She asks herself these questions...

It's 1942, and war is raging in Europe and in the Pacific. The Japanese army is on Australia's doorstep, and the small coastal Queensland town of Maryborough is on full war footing. What they are not prepared for is the arrival in the town of a troupe of...