Category Archives: Non Fiction

From the best-selling author of CARDINAL comes a searing examination of the power imbalance in our legal system – where exposing the truth is never guaranteed and, for victims, justice is often elusive. A masterful and deeply troubling expose, Witness is the culmination of almost five years’ work for award-winning investigative journalist Louise Milligan. ChartingContinue reading “Witness”

From the ABC Back Roads team, Australia’s inspiring rural communities in splendid, vivid colour. During the five years it has been appearing on our screens, ABC TV’s Back Roads has taken us across Australia, through scorched deserts, along sapphire coasts, up breathtaking mountains and over gentle, rolling plains. It has shown us the rugged landscapes,Continue reading “Back Roads”

Challenge your friends, family and fiercest enemies to a HARD OFF with the HARD QUIZ Book of the world’s Hardest A??es and the stories behind them. Every week, people everywhere tune in to the ABC’s HARD QUIZ to watch Tom Gleeson grill four regular Australians about their expert subjects. Tom’s crack team of writers andContinue reading “The Hard Quiz Book of the World’s Hardest Arses”

Welcome to 2020. Brexit, Trump, leadership challenges- those were the days. The Morrison government, after delivering its promised tax cuts, had only one thing on its policy mind- protecting its presumptive budget surplus. Sure, avoiding questions about such trifles as sports rorts, robodebt cock-ups, and water scams required an inordinate amount of energy. But, allContinue reading “Best Australian Political Cartoons 2020”

Why should it be any different from any other love affair? Why shouldn’t it run through its phases, wither, and die? I’d better work if I want to survive this, and if I want to play my full and proper part in it. Who wants a lovesick, lazy drip, obsessed with her own emotions andContinue reading “One Day I’ll Remember This”

The eighth volume of Jeremy Clarkson’s bestselling The World According to Clarkson series These days, you might know him better as a tractor-driving Gentleman Farmer, but Jeremy Clarkson wasn’t always a horny-handed son of the soil. Not at all . . . Back in the day Jeremy was far more likely to be found gunningContinue reading “Can You Make This Thing Go Faster?”

Hundreds of hours, many expert hands and unimaginable metres of fabric: couture is truly wearable art, where creativity and craftsmanship collide. Megan Hess has spent her career documenting fashion’s most beautiful people, places and pieces. In The Illustrated World of Couture, she brings to life its most important – and intriguing – art form, withContinue reading “The Illustrated World of Couture”

A legacy-defining book from Sir David Attenborough, reflecting on his life’s work, the dramatic changes to the planet he has witnessed, and what we can do to make a better future. See the world. Then make it better. ‘I am 93. I’ve had an extraordinary life. It’s only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. AsContinue reading “A Life on Our Planet”

How does a young student majoring in Portuguese at Georgetown University in Washington, DC become one of the biggest drug smugglers on Earth? And how does he survive 25 years in the trade – and encounters with some of its most powerful and ruthless figures, from Pablo Escobar to Narcos: Mexico’s Alberto Sicilia Falcón –Continue reading “Pure Narco”