Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Biographies & True Stories

This insightful and engaging history examines the key qualities that empowered 50 of history's most charismatic and inspiring leaders in the fields of politics, religion, culture and the arts.

HISTORY OF ART / ART & DESIGN STYLES. An enthralling, in-depth guide to 501 outstanding painters, sculptors, mixed-media artists, photomontage artists and installation artists from around the world and throughout the centuries. 501 Great Artists provides an informal illustrated history of art, as...

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY. When was the last time you tried something new? Be honest. It is probably a long time ago. From ordering your favourite dishes in restaurants to buying the same brand of breakfast cereal via wearing your favourite pants, we have become monotonous creatures of habit. But...

It was winter. Lauren Keenan was separated from her husband, lonely, and miserable. Then came the Night of 27 Rejections of Doom: asking 27 people to hang out one Friday night, and every single person saying no. Her attempts to console herself by going to the movies and eating ice-cream were thwa...

What would you do if you were stranded in the coldest place on earth as the world you knew back home changed forever? As station leader at the Davis Research Station in Antarctica, David Knoff was leading 24 expeditioners in a standard six-month mission when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, internation...

What would you do if you were stranded in the coldest place on Earth as the world you knew back home changed forever? David Knoff had embarked on the adventure of a lifetime as station leader of Davis research station in Antarctica when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. After their ride home was cancell...

Anita Link was thirty-two years old, and six days into motherhood, when she experienced a psychotic episode and was trapped on the wrong side of sanity for the first time. It took months in hospital, medications, electroconvulsive therapy and psychological therapies to fully recover. And then, a ...

Not long after he was born in 1990, Dylan Alcott was found to have a tumour on his spine. The surgery to remove it was successful but left Dylan a paraplegic. The youngest of two sons growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne, Dylan experienced his fair share of bullying and loneliness. By early hig...

Rebekah Robertson's extraordinary personal story of raising her transgender child, Georgie Stone, who has become a voice not just for other transgender kids - but for an emerging generation. In 2000, Rebekah gave birth to twin boys, George and Harry. But as they grew older, their preferences bega...

At age thirteen, Trish Kearney's idyllic childhood was abruptly ended when her swimming coach -- the internationally recognised George Gibney -- began abusing her, in a process of entrapment and control that would last for years. In her memoir, she describes how suppressed memories of those years...