Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Biography

This is a is a gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, telling the true story of a young single mother who finds herself driven to the forefront of the AIDS crisis, and who risks everything to give victims back their humanity. In 1986, 26-year-old Ruth Coker Burks visits a friend in hos...

A warm, candid memoir about interracial adoption, and the author's hunt for her story of origin.

Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary life, witnessing such seminal moments as the first ascent of Everest, the Suez Canal Crisis, the Eichmann Trial, The Cuban Revolution and so much more. Now, in Allegorizings, published posthumously as was her w...

Dan Christian is one of the world's most sought after cricketers, not only a star for the Sydney Sixers but having been part of teams in premier leagues from India and Pakistan to South Africa and the Caribbean. In The All-Rounder, he takes us on a globe-trotting tour from Karachi to Cardiff, fro...

68 days, 12 hours, 49 minutes. In 2018 Michelle Lee became the first Australian woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. It took two years of preparation for the 68-day, 5,000km journey--Solo details this extraordinary adventure from her perspective. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean is never an ea...

"Jack O'Hagan was the father of Australia's pop music industry. The most famous popular songwriter of his time, he wrote our nation's most beloved and enduring songs - 'Along the road to Gundagai', 'Where the dog sits on the tuckerbox' and 'Our Don Bradman' among them...Jack was a songwriter, pop...

Sisonke Msimang was born in exile, the daughter of South African freedom fighters. This story is the journey from Africa to America and back again, then on to a new home in Australia. Sisonke Msimang is a bold new voice on feminism, race and politics - in her beloved South Africa, in Australia, a...

"From the ingenious comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and creator of Spamalot, comes an absurdly funny memoir of unparalleled wit and heartfelt candor"--