Collection: Nonfiction

The emu can't fly, but that doesn't stop it being one of the iconic animals of the Australian Outback. With long legs, huge claws, striking orange eyes, and an interest in pecking at anything shiny, the emu is both intriguing and just a bit scary.

What is a wallaby? Is it a kangaroo or not? Are wallaroos, quokkas and potoroos grouped with wallabies or are they all completely separate types of animals? The answers to these questions are intriguing and they reveal how diverse the marsupials in Australia really are.

English for NSW, Year 8 Stage 4 is a workbook to support the implementation of the NSW Curriculum. It targets the focus areas of reading, viewing and listening to texts; understanding and responding to texts; and expressing and composing texts. Featuring a complete year of suggested units, each w...

English for NSW, Year 10, Stage 5 is a workbook to support the implementation of the NSW Curriculum. It targets the focus areas of reading, viewing and listening to texts; understanding and responding to texts; and expressing and composing texts. Featuring a complete year of suggested units, each...

Growing up in a remote corner of the world's largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oita learned to hunt wild pigs and tapirs, gathering Brazil nuts and acai berries from centuries-old trees. Then the first highway pierced through. Ranchers, loggers, and prospectors invaded, and they lost their fami...

Dr Matt Morgan has met hundreds of people who've come back from the dead. Their hearts stopped, their bodies unresponsive, rescued from the brink of death by the modern intensive care techniques he specialises in. People like Ed, who was walking through a park when there was a bang, a bright ligh...

At sixteen years old, Lily Arthur was caught between the women's liberation movement of the 'swinging sixties and the draconian ideology that young women should be punished for deviating from society's 'moral codes'. For the 'crime' of being pregnant, Lily was forcibly taken from the man she plan...

Hannah Rigby, a poor Liverpool seamstress, prisoner, and serial thief, was exiled from her homeland and oppressed by poverty and rigid social mores. Used and discarded by a series of men, she became an "exemplary" servant with a love for life and a single mother determined to keep her family toge...

Endurance, Determination and Grit: The first ever man to run the length of Africa shares his inspirational story 10,000 miles. 16 countries. 352 days. Hardest Geezer, Russ Cook, is the first person to ever run the entire length of Africa. From his starting point in Cape Agulhas, South Africa, thr...

The Fighter is the compelling life story of Australian Muay Thai legend 'John' Wayne Parr - a fighter's odyssey full of twists, turns, world titles, personal challenges and triumphs. Hailed as a legend in the fighting world, ten-time Muay Thai and kickboxing world champion 'John' Wayne Parr knew ...