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Antonia Fraser has had a thoroughly interesting life as an accomplished writer and, as well, as the wife of one of the world’s most intriguing men. Must You Go is all about her life with Harold Pinter
In essence, it is a love story and as with many love stories, the beginning and the end, [...]

The Life of Akmal charts Akmal’s early life in Egypt, with his eccentric family, to his totally different life in Australia. His first comedic gigs at Bikie conventions (coming on stage before the strippers), his marriage, and ever increasing success on stage and TV took him forward to become one of the best known and [...]

In The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale untangles the facts behind this notorious case, bringing it back to vivid, extraordinary life. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for 2010 this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery – a body; a detective; a country house steeped in secrets.
It is a summer’s night [...]

Worst of Days: Inside the Black Saturday Firestorm by award winning journalist Karen Kisane is all about the dramatic day in the 2009 Victorian bushfires, when hopes and dreams were reduced to ashes by one of the most ferocious fires in Australia’s bushfire history.
It takes readers inside the ferocious, insatiable beast that was the [...]

The Boy in the Moon is all about a father’s search for his disabled son. Ian Brown bares all, even his soul in seeking to understand his son’s rare condition but finds that it is only enriched and emboldened by the depth of his own experience.
Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare [...]

In Hit Men: Australia’s Contract Killers John Kerr tells the stories of some of Australia’s most ruthless contract killers – their plots, accomplices, victims, crimes and punishments – and of the people who saw fit to employ them. These men are the hit men, striking a contract with someone who has a target – [...]

Renowned writer and broadcaster William Shawcross has done the Queen Mum proud. In his official biography of Queen Elizabeth: The Queen Mother he demonstrates how the well connected Elizabeth Bowes Lyon won the public esteem in so many ways, including laying her wedding bouquet on the tomb of the unknown soldier as she left the [...]

Stott Andrew McConnell celebrates The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi: Laughter, Madness and The Story of Britain’s Greatest Comedian tracing his life from stage elephants running amok and riots in Drury Lane to the spectacular excess of Admiral Nelson’s sea battles re-enacted on flooded stages at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. But does the [...]

Without Warning: One Woman’s Story of Surviving Black Saturday details the horrifying events of that day as Jane O’Connor and her family fought for their lives in the face of Australia’s worst natural disaster. Lucky to be alive, they then had to grapple with the grief and destruction of their community, and find a way [...]

Making the Rounds with Oscar is the true story of a very special cat who provides human comfort during times of illness.
In the summer of 2007 Oscar the cat made headlines around the world. Why? Because he knows when the patients in the Rhode Island hospice where he lives are going to die. [...]