Hachette Australia: 432 books
Lighting the Path
The Dalai Lama teaches on wisdom and compassion
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
In this accessible and important follow up to The Art of Happiness His Holiness the Dalai Lama teaches us how to live a happier and more spiritual life by fostering compassion and wisdom.
Filled with his trademark honesty and warmth, this book explains how practically applying the values of...
by Sophie Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
It's 1982 in Australia. THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER is a box office hit and Paul Hogan is on the TV.
In a seaside suburb, housewife Theresa takes up swimming. She wants to get fit; she also wants a few precious minutes to herself. So at sunrise each day she strikes out past the waves.
From...
Man's Best Friend
The inspiring true story of Sergeant Luke Warburton, his police dog Chuck and the crime-busting Dog Unit
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
At 10.30 p.m. on 12 January 2016 Acting Sergeant Luke Warburton thought he was taking his last breath. A decorated New South Wales Police Officer, the father of three was looking death in the face after a bullet pierced his femoral vein. If it wasn't for the fact that it happened in the Emergency...
The Suicide Bride
A mystery of tragedy and family secrets in Edwardian Sydney
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Whenever society produces a depraved criminal, we wonder: is it nature or is it nurture?
When the charlatan Alicks Sly murdered his wife, Ellie, and killed himself with a cut-throat razor in a house in Sydney's Newtown in early 1904, he set off a chain of events that could answer that question....
by Sam Bowring
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
'Prophecy's Ruin may just be the start of the next big thing in Australian Fantasy.' Weekend Australian
'two of the most intriguing protagonists I've encountered in a long time' AustralianBookseller + Publisher
For a millennium the lands of Kainordas and Fenvarrow have been at war, ever...
by Future D. Fidel
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Isa Alaki is not from here.
At ten years old, Isa's life in the Congolese city of Bukavu changed forever. The streets were burning. The town was mostly silent, like a ghost town, until the yelling started. At school, Isa knows he has to get home. The soldiers would be looking for his father.
The...
Pleasure and Pain
My Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Chrissy Amphlett is a true legend of Australian rock?n?roll. Here, the spellbinding performer who inspired and outraged as lead singer of the Divinyls tells her own amazing story.
In this raw, gripping and searingly honest account, Chrissy spares no one ? least of all herself. She reveals how...
Gudinski
The Godfather of Australian Rock
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
The real story of the man behind the bands - and a backstage pass to forty years of Australian rock music.
Known to many as GODinski, Michael Gudinski is unquestionably the most powerful and influential figure in the Australian rock'n'roll music business - and has been for the last four decades.
Often...
by Frank Walker
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Vietnamese hilltribes made him a demi-god. The CIA wanted to kill him. This is the remarkable true story of Australian war hero Barry Petersen.
As he flew over South East Asia towards Vietnam, Captain Barry Petersen struggled to keep an aura of calm. Inwardly he was incredibly excited....
Born to Fight
The bestselling story of UFC champion Mark Hunt, the real life Rocky
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
`There's more than a few instances in this biography of UFC cult favourite Mark Hunt that make you shake your head in can't-make-this-stuff-up disbelief? - Inside Sport
A powerful story of sadness, hope, pride, honour and triumph from the real-life Rocky!
Raw, confronting and honest,...
by Kimberley Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Three women linked by their blood, their dreams ? and their sins.
From Leningrad in the seventies to America and London in the present day, Kimberley Freeman?s new novel follows the lives of two sisters, Lena and Natalia, and their cousin, Sofi,as they move away from Russia and all they have...
Running Like China
A memoir of a life interrupted by madness
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
From a talented emerging Australian writer, a brave, honest, unforgettable memoir about mental illness that breaks the silence and shatters the taboos to give hope to all those struggling to find their way through.
'When I was eleven years old Mum told me, "One crowded hour of glorious life...
Paris Lights
A Heart of the City romance Book 1
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2016
The first standalone in C.J. Duggan's addictive HEART OF THE CITY series - a sassy, sexy romance from the internationally bestselling author of the SUMMER and PARADISE series.
'You're breaking up with me!'
He was silent.
'In Paris.'
Eyes dropping.
'Under the Eiffel-fucking-Tower!' I screamed.
Twenty-five-year-old...
Just Doing My Job
Cops, firies, ambos. Everyday Australians with extraordinary stories.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
JUST DOING MY JOB is a journey into the lives of the men and women behind the uniform ? the cops, firies and ambos. It is an exploration of humanity and the human spirit. Imagine what it must be like to attend a fatal accident in which you know the victim; or to pull a baby out of a fire who is dressed...