Collection: Nonfiction

Comedian Sofie Hagen has not had sex in 3,000 days (and counting). And it turns out, she's not the only one... In an attempt to find out why we're not having the sex we want, Sofie asks the questions: can we blame a lacking sex education? Is it all just sexual trauma? Where's the radical sexual l...

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...

When you've just had a new baby it seems everyone around you suddenly becomes an expert, particularly when it comes to how to feed your newborn. It's an emotional time for new parents when female hormonal balance is skewed, sleep hard to come by and struggling with the pros and cons of how to fee...

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...

Australia's Greatest Racecars showcases the most spectacular machines to hit the track.These are the V8 beasts that created the legend of Brock, Moffat, Johnson, Bathurst and many more household names.This book rolls out a full grid of legendary metal with magnetic attraction for racing enthusias...

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...

One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think what you think and do as you do. You use it to change the thoughts and behaviours of others - just as others use...

In May 1915 during World War I, British units tried to capture the village of Krithia on the southern tip of the Gallipoli peninsula. Australian and New Zealand units were sent to reinforce the British. On 8 May, the Anzac troops took part in a bloody battle near Krithia. Advancing across a featu...

Undeterred by eight years of timid US sanctions, Vladimir Putin ordered his full-scale assault on Ukraine on February 24, 2022. In the hours that followed across the world, Western leaders weaponized economic tools to counter an unprecedented land grab by a nuclear-armed power. What followed was ...