Hardie Grant imprint: 333 books

PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS ‘Attention to detail is quite extraordinary.’ James Halliday ‘The definitive global book on champagne.’ Radio 2UE ‘The best guide ever published on champagne.’ The Sydney Morning Herald ‘An indispensable book...

Governments and others succeeded in burying the real story of the Vandemonian War for nearly two centuries. And historians failed to see through the myths and lies until now. This is the story of how the British truly occupied Van Diemen’s Land, deploying regimental soldiers and special forces, armed...

The modern world is a tough place for the thinking man. Between the strain of making dating small talk, the pitfalls of business networking and the expectation that he will be widely informed and articulate on every environmental issue and internet zeitgeist, it is hard for him to feel on top of his...

Unlike many in the West, the Chinese see food not as a chore to prepare and sourceof unwanted calories, but as a health-giving pleasure. In 15 short, captivatingchapters, Lorraine Clissold explains why the Chinese can eat as much as theywants without worrying about their weight.

This is the first volume of an annual series that celebrates the best in newly commissioned food writing. The first of its kind in Australia this series aims to be bold and unique and to start the conversation about food in the wider community. With 20 contributors from food professionals to journalists...

2004 marks the tenth year of the Mildura Writers' Festival, an arts festival noted for its camaraderie, conviviality and hospitality. Writers, poets and cooks are all in attendance, and attend one another's sessions; they eat - or rather feast - together from breakfast to dinner and beyond;...

The Family Book is a cornucopia of entertaining activities that everyone can enjoy, packed with illustrations and diagrams. Presented as a grabbag of ideas and suggestions, it touches on all the different occasions when families can spend time together: weekday evenings, summer holidays, birthdays...

When Jack Manning Bancroft founded AIME in 2005, building a bridge of mentoring between university students and Indigenous Australian high school kids, few people would have predicted that the initial cohort of 25 kids would grow to more than 15,000 students having completed the program by 2017, mentored...

The Foodies Guide to Melbourne will place the citys best kept food secrets at your fingertips. With wonderful little hole-in-the-wall businesses popping up every day, who can keep track of where to find the best of the best in Melbourne? Discerning food writers Allan Campion and Michele Curtis can. And...

Got a craving for a cup of Italian hot chocolate? Need to pick up some fresh buffalo mozzarella? Or perhaps you're wondering where to go for the best sourdough loaf? If you answered yes to any of these questions, or simply take a lively interest in what you eat, then The Foodies' Guide to Melbourne...

On Saturday 7 February 2009, Jane and her family were sweltering through one of the hottest summer days on record, listening with concern to reports of fires sweeping through Kilmore and Wandong, 50 kilometres to their east and - according to the reports - heading south. But as the clouds of smoke loomed...

In early 2016, in Grozny, Chechnya, there was a world title fight. This is the story of that fight. The World Champion That Never Was takes you to one of the world’s most dangerous cities, for the clash between the vastly experienced, intimidating champion, Ruslan Chagaev, and the underdog, Lucas...

The Battle for the Kokoda Track is Australia's Alamo. If Gallipoli symbolised the ANZAC spirit in WWI, then Kokoda is its WWII equivalent. In August 1942 Kokoda was a killing field. Today, it is hard to imagine what those young men endured for our freedom but the journey gives some clues. The track...

From the creators of Zac Power, Monstrum House combines a remote boarding school, quirky kids and monsters that go bump in the night! Jasper has not had a good start to the year: the prefects are out to get him, he hasn’t done his homework, and a bunch of vicious monsters are laying their eggs in Monstrum...