DIY Book Club Non Fiction

Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her decked, barren backyard into a beautiful wildlife garden. She documents the unbuttoning of the earth and the rebirth of the garden, the rewilding of a tiny urban space.

Charismatic, intelligent and handsome, George Scott is unlike any other bushranger. Born into a privileged life in famine-wracked Ireland, Scott's family loses its fortune and is forced to flee to New Zealand. There, Scott joins the local militia and fights as a soldier against the Maori in the b...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'This book is beautiful ... Julia Baird has been to the tough edges and gives us light. She writes like a dream.' MATT HAIG'Utterly captivating and magical.' JULIA BRADBURY'Luminous and deeply comforting' KATHERINE MAY

In July 2015, as the debate over Adam Goodes being booed at AFL games raged and got ever more heated and ugly, Stan Grant wrote a short but powerful piece for The Guardian that went viral, not only in Australia but right around the world, shared over 100,000 times on social media. His was a perso...

The haunting story of the extraordinary Aboriginal woman behind the myth of 'the last Tasmanian Aborigine'. The name of Truganini is vaguely familiar to most Australians as 'the last of her race'. She has become an international icon for a monumental tragedy: the extinction of the original people...

An epic true story of greed, power and a desire for legacy from an acclaimed Australian storyteller.

The very funny true story of three children recruited by their parents to work for ASIO in the 1950s.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman whose incredible journey still resonates today.