New non fiction books

Tales of the strange, unnerving and downright bizarre from one of the weirdest places on Earth. Fish falling out of the sky, joggers relieving themselves on your doorstep, mysterious monsters constantly springing from the shadows, spooky lights and ill-conceived toast spreads: these are just some...

In 101 Ways To Save Money On Your Tax - Legally! 2023-2024, bestselling author Adrian Raftery-aka Mr. Taxman-shows you how to get the most out of your taxable assets, lower your tax bill, and keep more of your hard-earned money. You'll learn what's changed this year and how the new budget affects...

March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is at last within their grasp. But if they believe this victory can be easily won, they face swift disillusionment. The final 100 days of the Second World War will prove to be bitterly and bloodily fought, ...

Authenticity. Vulnerability. Humility. Transparency. These are some of the 21st-century virtues proselytised by mindset gurus, paraded (if not practised) by big corporations, and lauded by professionals on LinkedIn. The quest for authenticity, for example, is central to progressive campaigns for ...

An oral history of one side of the white nationalist riots that shook the nation and signaled the arrival of a galvanizing new era, told from the perspective of the anti-racist activists who fought back.

Since 2021, tens of thousands of readers have devoured the Ask Shameless weekly columns on dating, friendship and self-development, written by the Shameless podcasters and a team of talented young Australian writers. In 4 am, Zara and Michelle have curated forty of their very best columns alongsi...

When Douglas Adams died in 2001, he left behind 60 boxes full of notebooks, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches and even poems. In 42, compiled by Douglas's long-time collaborator Kevin Jon Davies, hundreds of these personal artefacts appear in print for the very first time. Douglas was as much a t...

This comprehensive and fully field researched guide to 4WD tours takes you on 25 of the best 4WD adventures from the coast and over the Great Dividing Range. Enjoy leisurely day trips on beaches or in the mountains, or go further with overnight camping trips to remote destinations with your famil...

Pack Light, heavy on flavour Camping takes you out of your busy life, away from work and responsibilities and gives you the time to relax in the great outdoors. But that means you are away from your kitchen, your fridge and all the appliances that make cooking easier. What about dinner?! Here's w...

5 Ingredients Mediterranean is everything people loved about the first book, but with the added va-va-voom of basing it on Jamie's lifelong travels around the Med. With over 125 utterly delicious, easy-to-follow recipes, it's all about making everyday cooking super-exciting, with minimal fuss - a...

The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. Max Hastings's graphic new history tells the story from th...

Scott Kelby, Editor and Publisher of Photoshop User magazine, uncovers more of the latest, most important, and most useful Adobe Photoshop techniques for photographers. This book does something for digital photographers that has never been done before -- it cuts through the bull and shows you exa...

The first book to dive exclusively into Ai Weiwei's approach to design and collecting, shedding light on the value we ascribe to everyday objects.

For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred brazen heists over ten years - in museums and churches across Europe - Breitwieser, al...

A great cricket series, as reported by a great cricket writer. High hopes were held for the Ashes of 2023. They were exceeded in an instant classic of five Tests between a bold England and a battling Australia, finally shared two-all. 2023 captures all the drama and skill, as well as the controve...

Parents, caregivers and educators will appreciate having Autism and Education at their fingertips. Taken from Dr Temple Grandin's book, The Way I See It, it covers everything from early educational intervention to lifelong learning. Dr Grandin's expertise and compassion shine through each page.

Back pain is the one of the world's greatest public health challenges. It is the leading reason we visit the doctor, the leading reason we take time off work, the biggest cause of disability worldwide. One in 10 people will develop chronic back pain. And rates are growing. A multi-billion dollar ...

Becoming the Ex-Wife tells the story of US women's changing prospects in early twentieth-century life through the lens of its once-famous but now-forgotten subject, Ursula Parrott. Parrott was a prolific and best-selling author whose books, Hollywood deals, quartet of marriages and divorces, and ...

The first joint biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history - the colonised and coloniser - and a bold and innovative new portrait of both. Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenou...

Gregory Smith explains how after a decade living as a recluse in a rainforest he rejoined society and found something better than happiness - contentment. And how you can find contentment too if you just stop trying to be happy. How do you rebuild a broken life? Where do you begin? These were the...

A collection of over 70 enticing Asian-style one-bowl recipes that feature rice and noodles.

The Co-Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from diet culture to the future of the #MeToo movement. Articulating sharp, progressive perspectives on the social and political issues that matter, Bite Back offers constructive talking points to provok...

Over seventy years had passed since Mira Unreich was freed from a concentration camp in Germany. On that spring day in 1945, she found herself alive, against all odds. In the decades that followed, she never explained the mystery underpinning her survival. How could Mira say that in the Holocaust...

This is the tale of a cat wise in the ways of zen who hears of a solitary ancient pine, deep in a maple forest, under which infinite wisdom may be found. So begins a journey of discovery. Along the way he meets a vivid cast of animals- from an anxious monkey and a tortoise tired of life, to a tig...

On 9 August 1918, on high ground overlooking the Somme River, an entire British Army Corps is held up by German machine gunners. The battle has raged for 30 hours and more than 2000 Englishmen have fallen, for no gain. Meanwhile, two Australian sergeants, Jack Hayes and Harold Andrews, go absent ...

These recipes are the keys to the chocolate kingdom, the simplest route to chocolate happiness by the doyenne of chocolate, Kirsten Tibballs. It's always the right time for chocolate. Chocolate All Day is your invitation to indulge friends and family with choc-focused treats that are big on wow a...

Author, presenter, MasterChef, mum and nan - Julie Goodwin is also Australia's most trusted home cook. In this 'best of' collection she shares tried and trusted recipes you'll want to make again and again for your own family and friends. With comfort food, hearty family feasts, quick mid-week mea...

The author introduces a brief history of clicker training and the basic principles of this training method that uses positive reinforcement and rewards. She presents step-by-step instructions for a variety of exercises, some of which also incorporate a target stick. The exercises include fun beha...

This book is a collected works of one of Australia's most accomplished media personalities. Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject presents a selection of pieces from Daniel Browning's stellar career as a journalist, radio broadcaster, critic and interviewer. Alongside conversati...

In Cloudmoney, Brett Scott tells an urgent and revelatory story about how the fusion of big finance and tech requires 'cloudmoney' -- digital money underpinned by the banking sector -- to replace physical cash. He dives beneath the surface of the global financial system to uncover a long-establis...

You are a fourteen-year-old girl at a party. You are drunk. All your friends are drunk. A boy is pressuring you to have sex. You don't really want to, but you don't know how to say no. You really want him to like you. So you say yes, at least you think you say yes. You can't remember. What you do...

Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. From the 1990s onwards, globalization has shattered the map, leading to an explosion of new legal entities- tax havens, free ports, city-states, gated enclaves and special ec...

Born Abraham Maddison, he is a runaway teenager's illegitimate child, instantly erased by forced adoption. Raised Derek Pedley, he is just a country kid with big ambitions to be a journalist. But after discovering adoption papers at age 15, he retreats into denial. Dark, destructive behaviours re...

Learn to create gorgeous portraits in watercolor using easy techniques. Written and illustrated by Ana Santos, an artist and illustrator and a popular online instructor, Creative Portraits in Watercolor presents simple step-by-step demonstrations and beginner-level exercises to create expressive...

Explore a directory of crystals and minerals, and their individual properties and learn new ways to connect with their glimmering energies to improve your life. Learn how to cleanse your mind, body and spirit, heal your home and harness the power of the rocks. This practical guide will equip you ...

Something changed when you become a dad... From dad jokes to dad dancing, this is a comprehensive collection of dad-isms that any dad will -- perhaps reluctantly -- see himself in. Full of embarrassing anecdotes, cringeworthy jokes and cheesy sayings so bad they're almost good -- whether you're b...

Explores in precise detail the acupuncture points of the 12 main channels/meridians, plus the conception and governor vessels. Explains the theory of acupuncture from both traditional Chinese and Western medical perspectives with maps of the body. Full-color throughout and abundantly illustrated.

What do three murderers, a pornography collector, Karl Marx's daughter and a vicar found dead in the cupboard of his chapel have in common? They all helped to create the OED. The OED has long been associated with elite institutions and educated men. After all, these forces have dominated how we t...

How different are the sexes? Is gender uniquely human? Where does gender identity originate? Drawing on decades of observing our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores what we know of biological sex differences and of the role of cul...

"You rush home from work, tired from the day but looking forward to sharing a meal with your family. Except you're short on energy--but you need to pick a recipe, chop and prep ingredients, and tend to the kids. How are you supposed to juggle these responsibilities and make a meal that everyone a...

In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first time, the full story behind her lifelong passion for fashion, including how she developed her own, distinctly Dolly style, which has defied convention and endeared her to fans around the world. Featur...

Don't Dream It's Over is the first biography to focus exclusively on Neil Finn, the man who wrote the timeless hits of Split Enz and Crowded House. In early 1980, 21-year-old Neil Mullane Finn wrote 'I Got You', which became the signature song and biggest hit for the Kiwi band Split Enz, co-found...

What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn't. She sta...

Money talks, but it doesn't always tell the truth... Fossil fuel-fired capitalism has generated riches for billions, but is underwritten by a planetary pyramid scheme - one in which withdrawals from the natural world are not supported by underlying capital replenishment, resulting in global impac...

In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not just a sweeping revision of human hist...

Explore Australia 2024 is the 40th edition of the country's longest-running and most-trusted travel guide. This guidebook makes planning easy. For each holiday region there's a destination overview, a handy map, summaries of top attractions and information on major towns, festivals and events, an...

In this latest book, Josh continues to open our eyes to the potential of fish in the kitchen. Presented in three stunning sections - Catch, Cut and Craft - it's both a challenge to the food industry to do things differently and a dazzling manual to the eye-popping potential in each and every fish...

On paths, roads, seas, in the air and in space, there has never been so much human movement. In contrast we think of the past as static, 'frozen in time'. But archaeologists have in fact always found evidence for humanity's irrepressible restlessness. Now, latest developments in science and archa...

Over its more than 70-year history, Formula 1 has grown to become one of the most exciting and most watched sports on Earth. While its thrilling mix of danger and drama - not to mention high speed and supreme skill - continue to keep fans entertained and engrossed, it's the characters, personalit...

Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. There is a war on for your mind. You may not notice, but you are surrounded by manipulators: advertisers, politicians, big tech, even the humble waiter who asks, 'Still or sparkling?' Free Your Mind is your ...