Collection: Nonfiction

This book contains originally written exam-style questions covering the entire Year 11 syllabus. Each question comes with a detailed solution at the back of the book, showing you exactly what you need to write to attain full marks, as well as advice from a past high-achieving student to help you ...

How many more women have to be raped or abused before we act? need to accuse him before we believe her? will be failed by the criminal justice system? need to say something before we do something? will be sued for defamation for speaking out? will be contracted to silence? From Brittany Higgins a...

From unscripted giggling on stage, to having her costume eaten by a performing horse and missing an entrance thanks to country music legend Kenny Rogers ... In this revealing memoir, Katherine Wiles celebrates a rich and fulfilling career spent sharing the stage with some of our best-loved stars....

For her entire life, Lucinda's mission was to look as hot as possible. She nipped, tucked, bleached, cut, plucked, plumped, shaved, lasered, tanned, crunched, squatted and starved. Then, she broke. All I Ever Wanted Was To Be Hot is a funny, provocative retrospective on the last thirty years of W...

Crikey owner and ex-News Corp and Fairfax editor lifts the lid on the abuse of power by media moguls from William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk and on his own unique experience of working for (and being sued by) the Murdochs. What's gone wrong with our media? The answer: its owners. From William R...

Combining data with personal insights from over 40 prominent LGBTQ+ trailblazers, from CEOs to Ambassadors, Layla McCay reveals the challenges that LGBTQ+ people commonly encounter as they find their way in work environments, and provides the practical strategies that can help empower LGBTQ+ peop...

When do you need to see a psychic, and when do you need to quit your job? What do you do when heartbreak makes you feel like a one-winged pigeon on the floor? And how can you be a friend to someone who is grieving, knowing that there is nothing you can really do? Bel and Luce don't claim to have ...

For over twenty-five years, actor Jassa Ahluwalia described himself as 'half Indian, half English'. His fluent Punjabi always prompted bewilderment, medical staff questioned the legitimacy of his name, and the world of casting taught him he wasn't 'the right kind of mixed-race'. Feeling caught be...

A manifesto about what's wrong with Australia's mental health system and a guidebook for how to treat it, by a neurotic shrink who lives it every day. Psychiatrist Dr Mark Cross has spent most of his adult life working in the mental health system. He also suffers from anxiety, as do three out of ...

Our relationship with food is broken, but Dr Emma Beckett is here to help us repair it. This is not a diet book, but it is a book about your diet, your life, and how food fits into it all. In her sassy, and straightforward style, Dr Emma Beckett takes her extensive research qualifications and app...