Collection: Non Fiction

Interior designer and television host Jeremiah Brent explores the emotional meaning of home in this warm and inviting book that illuminates what make peoples spaces so personally significant. His book isn't just a study of beautiful interior design; its an emotional design book that delves into t...

The inside story of what it took to bring Monty Python and the Holy Grail to Broadway as the unlikely theatrical hit Spamalot, told through actual diary entries from the legendary comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and New York Times bestselling author. *note small size

Australia's most intrepid Jew finds out just how precarious identity can be. Discovering Kanye West is praising Hitler, John Safran heads to America to find out what's up. Kanye proves elusive, one thing tumbles into another, and John packs his duffle bags and moves in, squatting at one of Kanye'...

It began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal documents covered in swastikas that had been sewn into its cushion. The SS Officer’s Armchair is the story of what happened next, as historian Daniel Lee follows the trail of cold calls, documents, coincidences...

The best-selling guide to today's most exciting players, completely revised and updated. Here are the best of the best, from legends like Messi and Ronaldo to dynamic newcomers like Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland. This lively book features short biographies of some twenty-eight stars in all-goa...

Anna Funder's Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Stasiland is an Australian classic, the definitive account of tyranny and resistance in the former East Germany.'Fascinating, entertaining, hilarious, horrifying and very important.' Tom Hanks'Exhilirating ... The kind of book that makes us love non-fict...

With disarming candour and courage, Martha tells us of finding her own voice and peace as a working artist and mother. Her story is made more unique because of the remarkably gifted musical family she was born into.' EMMYLOU HARRIS This is Martha Wainwright's heartfelt memoir about growing up in ...

Storm'S Edge: Life, Death And Magic In The Islands Of Orkney

The first of our organs to form, the last to die, the heart is both a simple pump and the symbol of all that makes us human: as long as it continues to beat, we hope. The Story of a Heart is a testament to compassion for the dying, the many ways we honour our loved ones, and the tenacity of love.

Drawing is at the heart of human creativity. The most democratic form of art-making, it requires nothing more than a plain surface and a stub of pencil, a piece of chalk or an inky brush. Susan Owens offers a glimpse over artists' shoulders as they work, think and innovate, as they scrutinise the...