Collection: Nonfiction

Sleep has hardly changed since neolithic humans tossed and turned in their caves. In the past it was sabre-toothed tigers, now it is social media that keeps us awake. Human sleep as we know it today evolved hundreds of thousands years ago, to suit a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. It's not always comp...

When dehumanisation and destruction become the norm, the cycle must be broken. For over twenty years, Ittay Flescher has worked as an educator, journalist and peacebuilder in Melbourne and Jerusalem. When he woke up on the morning of October 7 to the sounds of rocket sirens over Jerusalem and lat...

This is the account of how, for four years, British and Allied codebreakers decrypted secret SS and Gestapo messages detailing the mass killings of the Holocaust, and how the Germans in turn deployed cryptanalysis to try to conceal their persecution of Europe's Jews. The compelling and fast-paced...

Discover the fascinating history of medicine from its primitive beginnings to the lifesaving technologies of today. In this unique history, you will discover how ill health has been with us for as long as humans have existed, as has the drive to treat and understand it. Over the course of centuri...

From larger-than-life adventures to vivid and poignant tales of the imagination, Highways and Byways is a collection of stories taking readers on an enthralling tour (complete with the odd detour) through the raucous, well-lived life of one of this country's most successful and beloved artists. T...

A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There's no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns into the world's favourite pop star, songwriter, storyteller, guitar hero, live performer, changing how music is made and heard. Heartbreak Is The Na...

On 15 April 2024 Justice Michael Lee delivered his judgment in Lehrmann v Network 10. The case, which centred on proceedings brought by Bruce Lehrmann against journalist Lisa Wilkinson and Network 10 for her 2021 interview with Brittany Higgins, alleged that Wilkinson had defamed Lehrmann by accu...

In a pioneering new history of the genre, The Haunted Wood explores children s literature at its best, from Aesop to Julia Donaldson. Providing startling insight into how authors might reflect a nation s psyche, Sam Leith offers an exquisite account of British childhood, as told through our most ...

Do you often find yourself scrolling through social media wishing your home looked more like the ones you see on there? Have you assumed it's too expensive to buy an array of cleaning products that you simply don't have enough space to store? Do you struggle with keeping your home tidy and organi...

In this groundbreaking new approach to the evolution of all life, Richard Dawkins shows how the body, behaviour, and genes of every living creature can be read as a book â" an archive of the worlds of its ancestors. A perfectly camouflaged desert lizard has a desiccated landscape of sand and ston...