Collection: Nonfiction

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 ...

What is the best type of fish to use for a curry or stir-fry or to cook on the barbecue? What should we look for when buying fresh fillets at the supermarket or fishmonger? What are the foolproof techniques for shucking oysters and peeling prawns? Anthony Yotis and Laura di Florio Yotis know good...

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...

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financ...

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...

A lobster might seem an unlikely object of aspiration. But lobsters, unlike humans, do not biologically age. In this book, naturopathic nutritionist Bridget Hancock illustrates how diet and lifestyle can complement Western medicine in pursuit of these goals. This simple, digestible guide takes re...

A serial rapist is stalking South Auckland in 1980s New Zealand and police are stumped, they can't seem to find the man they call "The Ghost" before he strikes again. In this incredible memoir of his nearly four decades as a police officer, David "Chook" Henwood tells the true story of how he and...

The Horse is a chronicle of the horse’s relationship with the peoples of the world, as a mode of transportation, a means of farming, a companion, and a weapon of war. It covers the profound impact of the species in an extraordinary story of evolution, revealing just how much of our existence we o...

A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women. In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression and self-harm. Over two weeks, she underwen...