Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Biography

Like many young Australians in the 1960s Nick Hasluck set sail for London, in his case for a post-graduate law degree, but looking also for new horizons and ways to be a writer. From a seedy room at the International Language Club he explored the 'Kangaroo Valley' party scene around Earl's Court ...

Darren 'Daz' Longbottom was born to surf. The son of surfing pioneer and board maker Rossco, and brother to legendary big wave specialist Dylan, Daz paddled out with world champions from the earliest age. He was one of the over excited 'access all areas' grommets behind the rope when the World To...

'I firmly believe that everything in life is possible armed only with a determined approach and positive mindset.' Nims Purja MBE Nims Purja has spent the last 16 years serving in the UK military, six in the elite Ghurkas, ten in the secretive world of the UK's Special Forces. As a Special Forces...

Exploring genius in the arts and sciences through the life and works of five seminal intellectual and cultural figures-da Vinci, Shakespeare, Newton, Beethoven and Einstein, this engrossing and enlightening work gives us a stunning new lens through which to view humanity's most prolific thinks an...

In 1975, twelve-year-old Tanya Heaslip leaves her isolated home in outback Australia and is sent sixteen hundred kilometres south to a girls' boarding school for an education the bush can't provide. The freedom of her young life gives way to an unfriendly world of stone and concrete, high walls, ...

What would move you to ditch your life and take off into the wild for five months? For Laura Waters, it took the implosion of a toxic relationship and a crippling bout of anxiety. Armed with maps, a compass and her life in a bag on her back, she set out to walk the untamed landscapes of the Te Ar...

"In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland-a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars-who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the att...

An Emmy-award winning writer's moving and inspirational memoir exploring what we can learn about life from a brush with death. We all face moments that bring us to our knees: heartbreak, trauma, illness. When things don't go to plan this is the book to reach for - an inspirational memoir about wh...

This long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved celebrities -- a writer, broadcaster, activist, comic on stage, screen and radio for nearly forty years, presenter of QI and Great British Bake Off star -- is an autobiography with a difference: as only Sandi Toksvig can tell it.

In the winter of 1966, at sixty-nine years of age, Lady Joan Lindsay sat down and wrote a short novel about a group of upper-class schoolgirls from a prestigious ladies' college who disappear while on a country picnic in the summer of 1900. The result was Picnic at Hanging Rock, a literary myster...