Books - Non Fiction
Solid Start
Advice and recipes for starting your baby on solids.
Solid Start explains the fundamentals of a healthy diet for babies and offers instructions on the transition from liquids to solids. This practical guide includes over 90 easy to prepare recipes …
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Some Days are Diamonds
To fulfill a promise to his friend John Denver, Max has brought together many of his memories of the early days of Australia show business. He started out with Lee Gordon and Allan Heffernan in the mid 1950’s and went …
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Some Girls Do
You’ve read their bestselling novels and memoirs. Now Australia’s favourite female writers recount the true stories of their teenage years in this bumper collection.
Remember your high school formal, your first love, first kiss, first bra, and the first time …
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Spartacus and Me: Life, Love And Everything In Between
A poignant and searingly honest memoir about love and life with Andy Whitfield
When you meet the love of your life, the one person you want to spend the rest of your days with, what do you do when they’re …
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Speaking Out
An essential, accessible and practical handbook for women on speaking out safely and confidently.
Worldwide, less than one out of every four people we hear from or about is female; men outnumber women in parliament by more than three to …
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Spirit Sisters
Spirit Sisters illuminates the very personal ghost stories of ordinary Australian women. Journalist Karina Machado passes on their secrets and share those incredible moments when someone leans in to whisper their tale and the hairs on the back of your …
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Sri Chimnoy’s Heart Garden
A book of aphorisms to bring you joy and inspiration, offered in celebration of Sri Chimnoy’s tireless efforts to inspire and encourage countless individuals around the world in over 40 years of selfless service to humanity.…
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Starting with Max: How a wise stray dog gave me strength and inspiration
Starting a new life in a new city, in a new country, Ying Yin and her family adopt a stray dog, the much loved Max.
Starting with Max captures the journey of a migrant in mid-life crisis struggling to come …
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Still a Gypsy
Still A Gypsy details the next installment of Toni’s life and chronicles her years in the United States and her return to Australian shores.…
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Strength of Purpose: Australian Women of Achievement 1888-1950
Every nation needs heroes and heroines, but the lives of Australia’s greatest women have been largely ignored for much of its history. This book, the sequel to “Strength of Spirit”, details the life stories of over 30 courageous Australian women, …
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Succeed With Me: Life’s little positive thinking book
Selwa came up with the idea for Succeed With Me after a particularly tough year both economically and personally. The result was a self-help book full of down-to-earth practicality and inspiration. It was written by ordinary people for ordinary people, …
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Surviving Australia: A Survivor’s Guide To Travelling Through The Australian Wilderness
Visiting the Australian outback can be a wonderful experience, but it isn’t all about boomerangs and koalas, kangaroos and didgeridoos. It can be a wild and dangerous place if you’re not prepared. Here is the essential travel companion for enduring …
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That’s Quite A Dress You Almost Have On
‘That’s quite a dress you almost have on’ is Gene Kelly’s dig at the bossy heiress in An American in Paris – just one of the 300 crackling one-liners chosen by veteran entertainment journalist Craig Bennett Here is your chance …
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The Bloke-a-saurus – Jokes for blokes, fair dinkum funnies and true blue
Aussie wisdom
Gargantuan gags, wags, goofs and giggles for your favourite fella, with royalties donated to support men’s mental health
Knockabout brothers Steve and Gus Worland know a good joke when they hear one, and this smorgasbord of their favourite …
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The Complete Book of Great Australian Women
This complete collection combines de Vries’ best-selling books Great Australian Women and Great Australian Women 2. It tells the stories of women who were pioneers of our nation, and in their fields, and who changed the course of history.…
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The Complete Book of Heroic Australian Women
Providing inspiration for today’s women, in this book of profiles, Susanna de Vries examines what it takes to be a truly heroic Australian. Women of grit and courage, women of integrity, resilience and resourcefulness. They faced different tests — harshness …
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The Coral Browne Story: Theatrical Life and Times of a Lustrous Australian
Coral Browne left Australia in 1934 at age 21 having already made a big name in that country on stage with JC Williamson Limited. She went to London with a return boat ticket, to try her luck. She had a …
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The Eczema Detox
The low-chemical diet for eliminating skin inflammation
‘This diet is healing my eczema and changing my life’ – testimony from just one of thousands worldwide who have benefited from The Eczema Detox, and proof that it really does work.…
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The Eczema Diet
For the first time, the finding of hundreds of international researchers have been pieced together to solve the eczema puzzle. The result is the first diet designed to correct the underlying causes of eczema so you can gradually go back …
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The Fictional Woman
Tara Moss has worn many labels in her time. Now, in her first work of non-fiction, she blends memoir and social analysis to examine the common fictions about women.
She traces key moments in her life – from small-town tomboy …
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