Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Biography

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...

In 2003, seventeen-year-old Australian exchange student Hannah Kent arrives at Keflavik Airport in the middle of the Icelandic winter. That night she sleeps off her jet lag and bewilderment in the National Archives of Iceland, unaware that, years later, she will return to the same building to wri...

"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"--

William Gilbert Grace (1848-1915) looms as large in the history of modern sport as Bach in the history of music or Michelangelo in the history of art. Physically immense, with a luxuriant black mane of a beard, Grace's performances on the cricket field towered above his peers. When 'W.G.' became ...

On June 30, 2009, Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl left his post in eastern Afghanistan, about 25 miles from the Pakistani border. He was quickly captured by local tribesmen, who sold him up the Taliban's chain of command. In May 2014, after almost five years in captivity the longest-held and mo...