Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Biographies & True Stories

The gripping adventures of a young David Attenborough - published with a new introduction and a new selection of 90 pictures, including colour. In 1954, a young David Attenborough was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for London Zoo's col...

AUTOBIOGRAPHY: SPORT. AUSTRALIAN. All new adventures from everyone's favourite Aussie larrikin. Nick's debut book TALES OF THE HONEY BADGER was the runaway humour and sport bestseller of 2015 and he's back in 2016 with a bumper book of yarns and tall stories. Packed with Nick's sensational saying...

Amanda Owen loves her traditional life on her hill farm alongside her nine children and husband Clive. And, as readers of her previous bestsellers will know, every day at Ravenseat brings surprises. In Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda takes us from her family's desperate race to sav...

At 41 -- with two teenagers and a contentedly unadventurous life -- Heather Hawkins made a doctor's appointment. Diagnosed with stage one ovarian cancer, within nine days she had surgery to remove an 18 cm tumour, and a full hysterectomy. Instead of chemotherapy, she chose a non-invasive surveill...

Advice from a Parkinson's Wife is realistic and enlightening, providing stories and advice from someone who's been there, along with practical suggestions for how to cope with the change's caregivers experience.

Nine never-before-told stories of remarkable women and their courageous pursuits of climate justice in Australia. From boardrooms to blockade camps, from the lush East Gippsland forests to the golden Ningaloo Reef, the fight against environmental destruction takes place in many spaces. The Advoca...

In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century. It was in this time of crisis that the modern kingdoms of Britain were born. In their responses to the Viking threat, these kingdoms forged their identities...

Exploring a character of paradoxes, this is the penetrating story of Edmund Hillary--the hero and the man. Edmund Hillary is not merely a New Zealand icon, but a world icon--a towering figure among adventurers. The interest in him and his family's dedication to making a contribution to the welfar...

How did it come to this? I am tough, I am smart, I have lived alone. Now I am cracking, right down the middle... Six months after the birth of her son, Emma Jane Unsworth finds herself in the eye of a storm. Nothing - from pregnancy to birth and beyond - has gone as she expected. A birth plan? It...

Escaping from Taliban persecution in Afghanistan, Abbas Nazari's parents fled the country in 2001 to find a safe place in which to bring up their five children. Their six-month journey through Pakistan and Indonesia searching for asylum culminated in being crammed onto a small fishing boat with 4...