Unforgotten
In 1963, young American Dian Fossey spent all her savings and took out a loan to realize her dream – to go to Africa. It soon became her life’s mission to study and protect the few mountain gorillas left on Earth. Fossey had no experience or formal scientific training, but she was smart, passionate, and […]
The Young Alexander
In brilliant biography, Alex Rowson offers an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great – one of the most important figures of the ancient world, but whose earlier years have until now been a mystery. Alexander the Great conquered land from Macedonia to Egypt to India, known now both for his accomplishments and his precocity […]
Speaking in Tongues
When you no longer believe in eternity, every moment counts – a memoir of growing up in a religious sect. Tom Tilley grew up in a Pentecostal sect obsessed with the bizarre spiritual practice of speaking in tongues. But the older he became, the less it made sense. And worse, the church group he was […]
While I Was Away
The Farewell meets Erin Entrada Kelly’s Blackbird Fly in this empowering middle grade memoir from debut author Waka T. Brown, who takes readers on a journey to 1980s Japan, where she was sent as a child to reconnect to her family’s roots. When twelve-year-old Waka’s parents suspect she can’t understand the basic Japanese they speak […]
All Mixed Up
Some secrets should never be kept – a candid and heartfelt memoir about authenticity, difference, resilience, hope and love by an exciting new Australian voice. My family may have been all mixed up, but I discovered a love and a resilience that ran deeper than any of us could have imagined. When Jason Om was […]
Exotic Vetting
Anaesthetising a fish, x-raying a frog and hospitalising a walrus are all in a day’s work for the world’s wildest veterinarian. Travelling from the rainforests of Sierra Leone to the jungles of Borneo, Romain Pizzi has caught, anaesthetised, diagnosed, operated on, medicated, and then released some of the world’s most endangered wild animals. From disease […]
Leonardo da Vinci’s Life of Invention
The award-winning author and illustrator behind Darwin’s Voyage of Discovery and Really Remarkable Reptiles turns his attention to the Renaissance man: Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci was a master of art, architecture, engineering, mathematics and more. Discover his relationship with the natural world, his futuristic inventions and the breadth of his artistic skill in […]
The All-Rounder
What is it like to follow the sun as a T20 gun for hire? Dan Christian is one of the world’s most sought after cricketers, not only a star for the Sydney Sixers but having been part of teams in premier leagues from India and Pakistan to South Africa and the Caribbean. In The All-Rounder, […]
Rose
The voyage of Rose de Freycinet, the stowaway who defied the French for love. In 1814, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, nineteen-year-old Rose Pinon married handsome naval officer Louis de Freycinet, fifteen years her senior. Three years later, unable to bear parting from her husband, she dressed in men’s clothing and slipped secretly […]
