Biography: General

With sales of over 40,000 copies for the hardback, Close to Flying was one of Christmas 2009's bestselling books. Cadel Evans appeared at sold-out ...

The end of career biography of one of the most loved stars of Australian cricket is now available in paperback with a brand new cover, after sellin...

In this memoir, Lyndall Hobbs bares all. Heartfelt, hilarious and down-to-earth, this book brims with Hobbs' honesty, charm and self-deprecating vo...

Come inside the world of Steve Kilbey singer songwriter and bassist of one of Australia's best loved bands, The Church. From his migrant ten pound ...

Chippie, surfie, glam rocker in bib 'n' braces, kids show host, breakfast DJ and straight-talking superstar, Graeme Ronald Strachan was many things...

For 3 years and 3 days Julia Gillard, Australia's 27th Prime Minister defied political gravity. From the start she walked a political tightrope. Th...

Lenny Hayes takes us behind the scenes and into the locker room at St Kilda football club, the team he has played with since being selected as a ro...

Flashbacks from the Flow Zone tracks author Tom Crago from his early days in Adelaide to Los Angeles, London, Berlin (and other always-on First Wor...

For more than four decades Glenn Wheatley has been known on the Australian music scene as both the bass guitarist of the 1960s Australian pop group...

Greg Chappell was the outstanding Australian batsman of his generation. Though he had an appetite for big scores, it was his calm brow and courtly ...

French author Colette has a special place in French literary history, her life and writing novels Cheri, Gigli and the Claudine series spanned the ...

Demers revives the memory of journalist Miriam Green Ellis, an all-but-forgotten feminist, suffragist, and agricultural reporter who documented the...

He loves the tango, was trained as a Chemist, and in his youth he had a regular girlfriend whom he planned to marry. For a pope, Francis has an unu...

A philosopher son comes to grips with his evangelist father's life and ministry, and his passion for winning lost souls. The author situates Percy ...

Ren Zhongyi was criticised and struggled against no less than 2,300 times from the start of the Cultural Revolution. So many years of violent attac...

Following the death of Mao Zedong, Gu Mu was a major figure in the 1980s Reform and Opening Up of Chinas economy. After the founding of the PRC in ...

Full-Color Poster included inside the cover! 18 And Life on Skid Row tells the story of a boy who spent his childhood moving from Freeport, Bahamas...

Richard III has been written off in history as one of Englands evil kings. His usurpation of the throne from his nephew Edward V and then subsequen...

A National Book Award finalist, the mesmerizing, landmark illustrated biography Radioactive is finally available in a stunning paperback edition. T...