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Born near Nazareth as a Palestinian citizen of Israel, Majeda Awawdeh learns early the limits imposed on her body, her voice and her dreams. After marrying at just seventeen to escape an increasingly stifling home life and continue her education, Majeda finds herself shouldering the double...

A wildly funny and meticulously researched re-examination of the life of explorer Matthew Flinders, as Shaun Micallef charts the chaos, comedy and contradictions behind the founding of Australia. Who was Matthew Flinders? A pioneer who gave Australia its name but chose to name nothing after...

The city pulled him in. The lie pulled him under. Undercurrent is a first-hand account of what happens when a police officer disappears into an undercover identity and stays there too long. Brisbane, mid-1990s. Jason Somerville is a young Queensland police officer who never planned on joining...

Untold true stories of fascinating lives throughout history to the modern day from the host of the popular?Half-Arsed History?podcast. The Most Interesting People You've Never Heard Of tells the tales of the overlooked names of history, the individuals who lived fascinating, absurd, or simply...

The astonishing life of Evonne Goolagong Cawley, one of Australia's most decorated tennis players. The Evonne Goolagong Cawley story is about a girl from a small country town who started hitting tennis balls against a brick wall with a stick. It is about a 12-year-old who left her family and...

The perfect book for motor enthusiasts, thrill seekers and anyone who loves a good yarn. ‘Fear and I started our long relationship at a very early age, and every time we met, I think we worked together to thicken my skin a little.’ As a veteran of the famous (some would say infamous) Targa...

What 1400km on the Antarctic ice taught an ultramarathon runner about overcoming pain and adversity. In January 2024, Donna Urquhart set the world record for the longest run in a polar region by completing a 1402-kilometre ultramarathon in Antarctica. She had trained for nine months, running on...

Natalie Kon-yu was nine weeks pregnant when the trembling began. Two weeks later she checked herself into a mental health unit. Though she was in crisis, the GPs, nurses and psychiatrists couldn’t see beyond Natalie’s precious cargo. She was made to feel that her pregnancy outweighed her...

This is a book for anyone who has ever loved someone who has died. Or who has ever loved someone. Because grief is the language of love, after all. On Valentine’s Day, after a night of red wine and pasta and planning for their future, Natasha Sholl and her partner Rob went to bed. A few hours...

Power Play is an honest guide for women who aspire to leadership in the workplace and in the world, from the trailblazing Julia Banks. Having won the ‘unwinnable’ seat that secured the Coalition Government majority in 2016, Julia Banks shocked Australia when she announced she would stand as...

It all started with a ruthless murder. An ex-boxer and petty police informer was efficiently disposed of, sending a ghastly warning to others. That would have been the end of it, had not a shark, in a million to one chance, vomited up the victim's arm in an aquarium and shone an unwelcome light...

A WWII prisoner of war, a resistance heroine and their incredible true story. In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. Josefine Lobnik is a Yugoslav underground resistance fighter; Bruce Murray a New Zealand soldier and prisoner of war. A crumpled...

What happens when a 32-year-old first-generation Australian woman decides to chuck in a dream job, pack a sleeping bag and tent, and hit the long, dusty road for six months? Thirty-thousand kilometres later, Monica Tan has the answer, and it completely surprises her. In mid-2016, Monica left...

Cold-pressed juices, Paleo, hot yoga, colonics, mindfulness, silent retreats … Does any of this stuff actually work? Feeling exhausted, anxious and out of shape, journalist Brigid Delaney decides to find out for herself. Travelling the world and starting with a brutal 101-day fast, she tries...

No one ever expected Catriona Menzies-Pike to run a marathon. She hated running and was a hopeless athlete. But a decade after her parents died suddenly she started running, and found that her grief started to move too. Until very recently it was frowned upon for women to run long distances...

A beautiful memoir from John Cook, one of Tasmania's last kerosene lighthouse keepers. A story about madness and wilderness, shining a light onto the vicissitudes of love and nature. 'John Cook's ripping life story exposes Tasmania's old kero-fuelled lighthouses: relentless physically and...

Tim Olsen is the son of arguably Australia's most famous living painter, John Olsen. Son of the Brush is his fascinating, candid memoir of what it was like to grow up in the shadow of artistic genius, with all its wonder, excitement and bitter disappointments. Tim's childhood was dominated by...

How OzHarvest charity queen and internationally renowned leader Ronni Kahn found her true calling in this passionately uplifting memoir. 'From the founder of OzHarvest, an ebullient, generous memoir with an exhilarating message: it's never too late to do great things.' ANNABEL CRABB 'Brimming...

What’s the key to the art of growing older well? Is it an art that anyone can cultivate? How should we confront dying and death in a secular age? What about sex when we’re older? What about loneliness? (And, for that matter, what about facelifts?) At the height of his powers in this...

My mother knew I was abused as a child. She had read letters sent from my abuser to me . . . But she never spoke to me about them, or what they described. And she never intervened to stop the abuse . . . Now she is dying and the past is rising to the surface like a bruise. When Gemma Carey was...