Collection: Nonfiction

One evening in 2009, April Balascio was searching online, as she had been every night, for unsolved murders in the towns her family had lived growing up, when she stumbled across the latest investigations into the "Sweetheart Murders" cold case. All at once, the buried memories of her father's da...

Start your day feeling energised, focused and ready to conquer your goals What's holding you back from being your most productive self? Do you often feel like you're surviving, rather than thriving? If you're overwhelmed, unfulfilled or burnt out, you need to discover Productivity Joy. Whether yo...

Out of the Blue is an utterly compelling and honest memoir reaching back into Anthony's family and his childhood to starting up his first band, The Cockroaches, with his two brothers while still a teenager himself. Anthony's university studies in early childhood education led him to forming the e...

Colm Toibin's personal account of encountering James Baldwin's work, published in Baldwin's centenary year.Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Toibin first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling to free himself from a re...

The story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that would end an empire, upend a continent, and lay down the modern borders of Europe.

Generations raised after the Second World War took for granted a world of stability and prosperity, and with it the waning of ancient hatreds. Recent decades have been more sobering. Instability and extremism have returned in force. As Shalom Lappin explains in this worrying book, an upsurge of a...

Every negotiation is an opportunity to connect, collaborate and create value. If you want better business outcomes, you need the confidence and skill to ask for what you want - and get it. The Negotiation Playbook: Strategies That Work and Results That Last shares tactics and tools to boost your ...

In this funny and heartfelt memoir, Gila Pfeffer recounts losing both parents to cancer and the choices she made to avoid the same early demise.

In the spring of 1980, an unexpected group of musical eccentrics came together to play their very first performance at a college party in Athens, Georgia. Within a few short years, they had taken over the world - with smash records like Out of Time, Automatic for the People, Monster and Green. Ra...

Is geography really destiny? Our maps may no longer be stalked by dragons and monsters, but our perceptions of the world are still shaped by geographic myths. Myths like Europe being the centre of the world. Or that border walls are the solution to migration. Or that Russia is predestined to thre...