Collection: Nonfiction

Christine McVie born Christine Perfect, was the quintessentially English rock star, as both the backbone and the beating heart of Fleetwood Mac. Straddling the band's incarnations to achieve global fame alongside Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckingham and John McVie, the classic line-up...

The perfect recipe for the perfect cookie for the perfect moment. How devoted are you to your favourite cookie? Meet Emelia Jackson. Whose dedication to perfection knows no bounds. Consider this book an invitation to make a whole group of new best friends. Recipes include: The Basic B*kkies - Thi...

This indefinitive collection brings together under one cover the very best comic writing - parody, poetry, prose, plays, philosophy and political treatise - by Australia's greatest living television host. From 'I Was Scott Morrison's Schnoodle' and 'Around the World in One Pair of Underpants' to ...

Discover the exhilarating story of Glenn Maxwell, the Australian cricket maestro whose audacious flair has redefined the nation's beloved game. Glenn Maxwell's brilliance on the cricket field is not without its risks. His bold approach can exasperate as well as exhilarate, yet when he hits his st...

It can sometimes seem a mystery why some couples stay together and thrive--while many more split up or drag on scratchily. Fortunately, though we might ascribe happy love to chance, there are a range of identifiable secrets that underpin all good relationships and that we can learn and put into p...

We are in a golden age in astronomy, living on the cusp of breakthroughs that will revolutionize our understanding of our place in the cosmos in. Yet a profound question remains: Are we alone in the universe? We have never been closer to answering this question. In The Secret Life of the Universe...

Summer 1944: the SAS were charged with the most crucial D-Day missions, taking on the might of the Nazi Reich deep behind enemy lines. Facing Hitler's fearsome Panzer divisions with little more than raw courage and their nimble Willys jeeps, it would take maverick thinking and unconventional warf...

Record levels of women are retiring in poverty - the current figure is 1 in 6 in Australia. Should we be surprised when women earn less than men, shoulder the load when it comes to unpaid work at home, and take more and longer breaks from paid work to have children?

Was your childhood dysfunctional? Was your parent more like a demanding child than a loving caregiver? Perhaps your parent is a narcissist. Raised by Narcissists helps you identify parental narcissism and narcissistic abuse to understand the harmful dynamics at play in a toxic family environment ...

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...