Top Adult Non-Fiction June 2021

An urgent and insightful investigation into the collapse in youth mental health, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling author Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most difficult spaces -- communities polarized by politics an...

The many exciting roads to bread glory and the best ways to enjoy it from a powerhouse couple who threw in their corporate jobs to realise their bakery dream. Mike Russell started Baker Bleu with a bread obsession, three recipes, his life savings and a hard-won belief there is more to life than a...

'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem,...

"The ocean has shaped and sustained life on Earth from the beginning of time. Its vast waters are alive with meaning, and connect every living thing on Earth. Deep Water is a hymn to the beauty, mystery and wonder of the ocean. Weaving together science, history and personal experience, it offers ...

Simone Callahan's wellness journey was instrumental to her healing process when her marriage to cricket legend Shane Warne ended. Now, she's determined to guide and support others in their search for inner peace during difficult times. In Growing with Grace, Simone explores the power of self-care...

From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilarious, and inspiring book about her unconventional journey to Hollywood success and loving herself.

What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world. Nick moved to Russia in 1998 to help build the British Embassy in Moscow, but ended up on the run w...

Bangka Island, 1942. Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was just 26 when Japanese soldiers marched her and her fellow nurses into the shallow waters of a remote beach to be executed. Miraculously, Vivian would be the lone survivor. The Lieutenant-Colonel would also be the first woman to be h...

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend a boarding school. A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into...

Five million people will retire in Australia in the next five years. They all need estate planning advice. Everybody I know has a child living overseas and 50% of Australians have parents born overseas, the tax implications for overseas beneficiaries and overseas assets are huge.

Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant...

More than a million Australian home cooks already love Nicole's simple dinner ideas. And her much-anticipated debut cookbook is a mantra in keeping it simple, with more than 80 mouth-watering dinners. Speedy weeknight lifesavers include one-pan peanut chicken, cheat's laksa and speedy san choy ba...