Collection: Non Fiction

What is the difference between men and women? Jennifer Finney Boylan, bestselling author of She's Not There and co-author of Mad Honey with Jodi Picoult, examines the divisions - as well as the common ground - between the genders, and reflects on her own experiences, both difficult and joyful, as...

Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so ...

Mike Berners-Lee finds new perspectives on the climate and ecological emergency by standing further back, digging deeper and joining up every element of the polycrises that we face. The need for radically higher standards of honesty emerges as the single most critical leverage issue for those see...

A Climbing Life, a memoir by Armando Corvini, is a remarkable story starting in Trieste in Italy to the present day in Canberra. Along the way, Armando suffered severe frostbite in the Himalayas in a mountaineering accident and faced a steep and painful recovery. Yet today, at the age of 85, he c...

Australia has a rich diversity of phasmids, otherwise known as stick and leaf insects. Most of them are endemic, few have been studied and new species continue to be found. Stick insects are, by far, Australia's longest insects - some of them reach up to 300 mm in body length, and more than 500 m...

The Complete Fishing Bible is now in it's 5th edition and has everything you need to know about fishing in Australia. The book has been updated into include the latest fishing techniques with new photos and information about lures.

The book every new mother or pregnant woman needs - the ultimate expert-endorsed companion to life post-birth.

Are you a high achiever battling feelings of inadequacy? Do you feel undeserving of your accomplishments? Do you consider yourself a fraud just waiting to be found out? You're not alone.

The story of what abusive behaviour can do to a person, a family and how one woman's plight can change the justice system.

A collection of over 100 simple, satisfying plant-packed recipes that are low on effort but BIG on flavour.