The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1: 1969-73
In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in the years immediately following the dissolution of the Beatles, a period in which McCartney recreated himself as both a man and a musician. Informed by hundreds of interviews, extensive ground up research, and thousands […]
Impossible (Young Reader’s Edition)
An abridged edition of the bestselling memoir. Stan Walker is one of Aotearoa’s most famous singers. Since winning Australian Idol in 2009, he has earned eight gold and five platinum singles, as well as one double platinum and one triple platinum single in New Zealand. But nothing ever came easy for Stan. What were the […]
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 […]
Lovers Dreamers Fighters
A beautiful and moving memoir about passion, creativity and fearlessness from one of Australia’s true creatives, singer/songwriter Lo Carmen, inspired by the lives and careers of other remarkable Australian women – from Renee Geyer to Chrissy Amphlett to Wendy Saddington. ‘Mostly it’s women with a type of fearlessness that thrill me. All the torch bearers […]
Blood, Sweat and Steel
Soldier, champion, great Australian – an extraordinary story of triumph over tragedy. In 2012, combat engineer Curtis McGrath was serving in the Australian army in Afghanistan when, in the line of duty, he stepped on a mine. Instantly, both his legs were blown off. Still conscious but aware that he would bleed out and die […]
Home Truths: A Memoir
Williamson is widely recognised as Australia’s most successful playwright and over the last fifty years his plays have been performed throughout Australia and produced in Britain, United States, Canada and many European and Asian countries. A number of his stage works have been adapted for the screen, including The Removalists, Don’s Party, The Club, Travelling […]
Best Seat in the House
Racer and broadcaster Neil Crompton has had the best seat in the house for the last 40 years of Australian motorsport, an amazing lifetime upgrade to a first-hand, front row seat to see the biggest names, machines and events of this high-speed, high-octane sport. A kid from Ballarat in country Victoria obsessed by speed with […]
Homage to Catalonia
In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia, first published just before the outbreak of World War II, Orwell documents the chaos and bloodshed of that moment in history and the voices of those who fought against rising fascism. His experience of the civil war would […]
House of Kwa
Wild Swans meets Educated in this riveting true story spanning four generations The dreamer boy travelling on dragon hide… a tiger running alone in the night… Mimi Kwa ignored the letter for days. When she finally opened it, the news was so shocking her hair turned grey. Why would a father sue his own daughter? […]
