Biographies

This book has sat waiting for review for some time –six months or longer to be exact. It has taken me that much time to […]

When Tim Ward and his 20 year old son Josh set out to “conquer” Kilimanjaro it is with a sense of adventure, of walking in […]

This is absolutely an insiders story of how a practising surgeon from a wealthy, respected family in Baghdad, came to Australia as a refugee. I […]

This is an account of the early years of Dom Harvey’s life.  Dominic is currently a radio broadcaster in New Zealand, and if his show […]

When Hugh Tindall a was a lad he lived out in the backblocks of Queensland, in the Diamantina river country on a  collective of land, […]

Lotta is an organizational whizz! She is a mother of three young boys, happily married to a TV presenter, who has just been offered a […]

Stella so often said to herself  “”It will get better, it’s just a season” The pain and despair that Stella faced so often in her […]

of Jane Cornelius – single mother. Together they make powerful reading of life, love, living and survival. This is a story that all Mothers, all […]

Tracy Vo’s family are immigrants, having arrived in Australia many years ago on a leaky boat as just some of the many fleeing from Vietnam […]

Raw and powerful this is a story that will touch your heart. It is a story about grit and determination, of moving little by little […]

With her trade mark warmth and sense of fun Melissa Doyle offers us a small insight into her world – that of mother, wife and […]

Now all the uproar associated with the launch of Bob Carr’s latest book has died down you can sit back and take a look at […]

In a moment of complete impulsiveness, some may even say madness, Trudi-Ann Tierney agreed to go to Afghanistan to help out a friend of a […]

Joe Bugner: Well some people just don’t know when to quit which seems to be why the man has had a career that has had […]

When David Menasche was given days, maybe weeks or possibly even a year to live, it was not what he wanted to hear. He did […]

When Normie Rowe finally decided to tell his story it was a choice of what bits do I tell? Should it be a tell-all tale […]

A true story from the memoirs of an inspiring man. The author, Stephen Jin-Nom Lee was born in the village of Dai Waan in Zhongshan, […]

Funny, completely irreverent, intimate  and “in your face”, take a walk in Michelle Lee’s life: be prepared to be fascinated, fed-up, annoyed and  informed, particularly […]

The most extraordinary tales of heroic feats and mateship come out of every conflict and none more so than the heart-warming, astonishing tale of Horrie […]

When Germaine Greer was sixty two she bought a forest: she was not sure why she bought a forest other than she did, because at […]

The face of Kings Cross is changing: gone is the character that once made The Cross what it was, gone is the infamous Pink Pussy […]

There’s not a lot of sex in this book but there are a lot of lies which makes for more than interesting reading on one […]

A young Alexandra immigrated with her family to Australia from Greece for a better life. Like all immigrant children, Alexandra and her brother grew up […]

Delia Ephron has offered us a raw and deeply personal look into some of the many deciding moments that have gone into making up the […]