Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Biography

Fergus McMaster co-founded QANTAS with Hudson Fysh and Paul McGuinness in 1920. Following the First World War, these three men, driven by passion, foresight and adventure for aviation, started the now internationally recognised iconic airline with the red kangaroo on its tail.From humble beginnin...

Forty years since their formation in a grubby Chinatown basement comes the first truly definitive biography of the world's most legendary rock band - Led Zeppelin. They were 'the last great band of the sixties; the first great band of the seventies'; they rose, somewhat unpromisingly, from the as...

America's top psychic medium reflects on his life of speaking to Spirit and the lessons he's learned along the way-from both the living and the dead. People who are not in the habit of talking with the dead have a hard time imagining what Matt Fraser's life is like. Based on the questions he gets...

The work of Shelley Lasica reveals a sustained exploration of dance, movement and the varying contexts in which they can occur. WHEN I AM NOT THERE has been produced to accompany a performance exhibition reflecting on forty years of Lasica's choreographic practice. Held at Monash University Museu...

A story of the tender power of animals to heal broken humans. Tim Husband was born into a Jehovah's Witness family who spent their weekends delivering God's Word. Struggling to fit into this orthodox community, he found refuge in the bush, collecting and caring for injured animals. At fourteen, T...

Lucy Easthope lives with disaster every day. When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, she's the one they call. Lucy is a world-leading authority on recovering from disaster. She has been at the centre of the most seismic events of the last few decades, advising o...

The journalist and editor recounts his journey from launching Spy magazine to transforming Vanity Fair during his 25-year tenure, detailing his editorial innovations, his collaborations with legendary contributors, and his role in shaping the magazine's cultural prominence amidst the challenges o...

"In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann famil...

June 2024 will mark the 60th anniversary of the Beatles historic - and hysterical - visit to Australasia. The importance of the tour remains deeply significant, not only in the memories of baby boomers who lived through it, but also to today's millennials who wish they had. The Beatles Australasi...

Susi Prescott had it all. A large, busy family, a school teaching job she loved, a home on Sydney's leafy North Shore. But with the sudden demise of her thirty-year marriage, her world crumbles. To the surprise of everyone, especially herself, Susi makes a momentous decision. She packs up her for...