Collection: Nonfiction

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...

A riveting true story of an unsuspecting woman who creates an ingeniously clever white-collar scheme that manipulates the Federal banking system out of millions-who eventually loses everything that is most important to her. In Never Saw Me Coming, Tanya Smith shares her deeply personal and remark...

In 2014 Tim Peck's career was at its peak. After reaching his goal of working in the Homicide Squad, he had enjoyed rapid promotion through the ranks, working high-profile cases and managing complex operations, throwing everything into his career. But internally he was struggling - with depressio...

It is still difficult for many people to acknowledge that they are struggling to cope, particularly in jobs with a culture of toughness, where resilience is a given: first responders, the military, miners, construction workers. Craig was one of those people, and this down-to-earth, accessible and...

The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever. On the 14th of August 1941, a Polish priest named Maximilian Maria Kolbe was murdered in Auschwitz. Kolbe's life had been remarkable. Fiercely intelligent and driven, he founded ...

Medicinal herbs aren't just for traditional medicinal preparations, they are also a wonderful way to complement a healthy diet. The Medicinal Garden is the perfect guide to revitalising your health with ingredients you can grow and forage yourself. From edible treats to therapeutic remedies, unea...

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...

Harry Freame was the first Australian to win the Distinguished Conduct Medal at Gallipoli. Raised as a samurai, he risked his life again and again to scout the beaches and hills of the battlefield, reporting invaluable intelligence back to his officers and relieving stranded soldiers who otherwis...

A thoroughly researched and deeply personal examination of how we unintentionally condone workplace abuse in a post-#MeToo world and what we can do to affect positive change. When Reah Bravo was hired to work on the Charlie Rose show, the open secret of Rose's behaviour toward women didn't deter ...

In the darkest days of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anna-Maria van der Vaart sheltered Allied pilots, gave refuge to persecuted Jews and participated in audacious acts of sabotage. She survived when others did not, a witness to their courage and to the terrible treachery that betrayed ...