Collection: Non Fiction

There are certain memories that will be familiar to anyone who grew up in Australia between the 1960s and the 1990s. Things like traipsing to the caravan-park toilet with a Dolphin torch at night, indulging in creme de menthe from a Regis glass, lobbing a banana peel at a Nylex flip-top bin and s...

A luminous collection of essays on art, obsession and creativity from one of Australia's best critics. Why do we revere the figure of the artist? Is the drive to create an innate human instinct or a form of compulsion? Is the provocateur more lauded than the realist? Why do artists do what they d...

An impassioned examination of the existential threats to the world's ocean and cautious optimism for the abundant life within it.

We know every Indian family holds delicious secrets in its dabbas. But what if they held even more than we knew? Masala is the Tardis that opens the door to a food multiverse. And Kashmiri-Australian cook and author Sarina Kamini is inviting you inside.

With a mixture of myth-busting facts, a look at the role of our genes and diet culture, along with the latest discoveries in nutrition science and with a delicious recipe section, this book is the only book you need to feel at your very best.

One of the world's greatest thinkers investigates the logic and psychology of common knowledge. In exploring the paradoxes of human behaviour, When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows... invites us to understand the ways we try to get into each other's heads, and the harmonies, hypocrisies, and ou...

This is the untold story of the rediscovery of the ancient City of David in Jerusalem and the powerful evidence that proves the Jewish people's historical and indigenous connection to the Holy Land.Since the founding of Israel in 1948, the Jewish people have faced nine wars against multiple enemies.

Discover the reigns of twelve African queens and warriors from across the continent, from pioneering historian and writer, Paula Akpan.

This is the extraordinary work of Sally Becker, a humanitarian aid worker who for over three decades has risked it all in order to help the children of war.

From the sacred stones of Stonehenge to the rose red city of Petra, from towering mountains to the smallest grains of sand, rocks have had a profound influence on human life. Anjana Khatwa has dedicated much of her life to geology. Here she tells us how rocks have been shaped over the eons-but al...