Hardie Grant Grp imprint: 63 books

With sales of over 40,000 copies for the hardback, Close to Flying was one of Christmas 2009's bestselling books. Cadel Evans appeared at sold-out events across Australia and thrilled fans with his 2009 Cycling world Championship win. With his recent success at the Giro d`Italia, Cadel is again poised...

Famous for his dreadlocks, his zinc plastered lips and powerful hitting, Andrew Symonds is one of Australia's most popular and entertaining cricketers.

When he was eight years old, David Schwarz saw his father killed in front of him in a domestic dispute gone wrong. Despite going on to become a star footballplayer, playing 11 seasons with the Melbourne Football Club, the effect of this early shocking experience would shadow him throughout his successful...

Beginning his AFL career in 1992, 'Kouta' quickly established himself as oneof the most versatile and athletic players ever to play the game. Of Greek and Northern Italian heritage, Koutoufides made an early choice to switch from track and field athletics to Australian rules football. A pinup boy...

Oh, the joys of pregnancy! There's the gassiness, constipation, queasiness, and exhaustion; the forgetfulness, crankiness, and the constant worry. No woman is spared these discomforts and humiliations, but most are too polite to complain or too embarrassed to talk about them. Not Jenny McCarthy!...

Want to attract the best people? Understand young staff? Retain talent? Then read this book. Generation Y are the 4.5 million Australians born between 1978 and 1994, and are the second largest Australian generation. Given Australia's ageing population and the large decline in birth rates that defines...

Baby bust. Environmental blasphemy. The hotness delusion syndrome. These are just some of the intriguing new phenomena this next decade may yield. The past decade has provided us with a lot of fodder for prognostications with Facebook and Twitter coming up from nowhere to suddenly dominate the culture...

Jenny Cragg, a smart endearing teenage fugly, lives in Boonelg. Her mother Berenice is now extremely overweight and has become confined to her bedroom. Her best friends Amy Lee & Nigella are very religious & her neighbour Nick is extremely good looking. What's a bogan girl to do? She'll enter a dance battle to try and win the 10,000 prize.

In this practical and generous book, Shivani tells her story of leaving the corporate world and climbing her own ladder of success in small business.

In a ground-breaking book that combines a novelist's eye with rivettinginvestigative journalism, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the world's mostesteemed writers, retraces Pearl's final steps through a murky Islamicunderworld, suffused by "an odour of the apocalypse." The investigationplunges Lévy into his own heart of darkness - and a series of stunningrevelations about who the real terrorists are.

An exploration of TV year-by-year from 1956, reporting in time-capsule mode on celebrities and shows as they happened, from Happy Hammond and Skippy to the live telecast of the terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Centre.

Charts a modern-day adventure completed more than 200 years after Matthew Flinders' original journey. As well as providing unique insights and stunning images of some of the most remote and inaccessible parts of the Australian coastline, it is a tale of daring and wonder on the high seas.

For nigh on 30 years, players in our academies and leagues were routinely plundered by massive, cashed-up overseas clubs that offered fame, glory, worldclass competition and astronomical pay packets. Until 2005, when Frank Lowy and John O'Neill staged an extraordinary rejuvenation of the local competition...

Les Murray is Australias most respected expert on Football. In The Worlds Game he draws upon his many years of watching critiquing and reporting on football around the world and shares his greatest moments. An entertaining writer his books are widely read and enjoyed. This is Les Murrays first book...