Hachette Australia: 432 books
by Fiona Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
A poignant novel of heartbreak, adoption and family secrets
Emma, a nurse and busy mother of three, has always dreamed of having a sister.
Michelle, at 46, wonders if it's too late to fall in love and find her birth parents.
Sarah, career woman and perfectionist homemaker, struggles to keep...
Roadies
The Secret History of Australian Rock'n'Roll
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
This is your backstage pass to the hidden side of the music industry - the tantrums, the fights, the tensions, the indulgence, the sex, the alcohol, the drugs. The roadies see it all, and now they are sharing their secrets.
Roadies are the unsung heroes of the Australian music industry. They...
At the Altar of the Road Gods
Stories of Motorcycles and Other Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Caution: Contains incidents of insane motorcycle antics, drug use and swearing.
'Boris has more fun on two wheels than should be legally possible.' - Richard Fidler, ABC
His mother may not know it but Boris Mihailovic has lived a fast, furious, often politically incorrect life chasing...
by Joanna Nell
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Joanna Nell's life-affirming debut is a moving, funny, heartwarming tale of love and community in the spirit of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Grace and Frankie
The life of 79-year-old pensioner PEGGY SMART is as beige as the décor in her retirement village. Her week revolves around...
The Brumby Mare
And other recollections of a Queensland bushman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Brumby Mare is an engaging collection of reminiscences about traditional Queensland stockmen and bush workers in the 1950s and 1960s, before the days of motorbikes and helicopters.
Brian Taylor knows and loves his country and his stories ring with the authority of experience. Some of the...
by Quentin Kenihan
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Quentin Kenihan is living proof that superheroes don't need capes, just the right attitude. FOREWORD BY RAY MARTIN
When he was a kid, Quentin Kenihan loved Superman. Ironic, really. Quentin didn't need kryptonite to reveal his weakness - born with a rare bone disorder, osteogenesis imperfecta,...
Unsung Ordinary Men
A Generation Like No Other
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
After spending over three years in the horrific prisoner-of-war camps, including those along the Thai-Burma Railway, Sally Dingo's father Max was one of the fortunate ones: he came home. And yet, like most of the 22,000 Australian POWs of the Japanese, he would not, or could not, talk about what happened...
Carpathia
The extraordinary story of the ship that rescued the survivors of the Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
In the early hours of 15 April 1912, the Cunard steamship Carpathia receives a distress call from the new White Star liner Titanic. Captain Arthur Rostron immediately turns Carpathia northwest and sails full speed through the dark night, into waters laden with icebergs, on a rescue mission that will...
Where Spirits Dwell
Fascinating True Life Stories of Haunted Houses and Other Paranormal Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
WHERE SPIRITS DWELL unearths the creaking, spine-chilling moments when ghosts appear in suburbia. Alongside infamous Australian haunted homes, like Junee?s Monte Cristo Homestead and Annandale?s haunted Abbey, WHERE SPIRITS DWELL also takes readers inside other haunted dwellings including schools,...
Spirit Sisters
Australian Women Reveal True Life Stories of the Paranormal
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
SPIRIT SISTERS illuminates the very personal ghost stories of ordinary Australian women. Journalist Karina Machado has listened to many of these stories and within these pages captures the sorrow, fear, comfort and hope that go along with them. Here she passes on their secrets and shares those incredible...
Monash's Masterpiece
The battle of Le Hamel and the 93 minutes that changed the world
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The Battle of Le Hamel on 4 July 1918 was an Allied triumph, and strategically very important in the closing stages of WWI. A largely Australian force, commanded by the brilliant Sir John Monash, fought what has been described as the first modern battle - where infantry, tanks, artillery and planes...
by Robert Macklin
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
It is a story of sheer courage and skill - incredible bravery combined with the precision of a surgeon - as these men defused deadly mines, often dropped in residential areas. The detonators were frequently booby trapped by the Nazis, and these Australians and their British colleagues came to recognise...
A Swag of Memories
Australian Bush Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
A quintessential Australian bushman, Brian Taylor has spent most of his life on the land. Working as a drover, a stockman, a fencer, a shearer and a saddler, he has gathered a swag of stories over the years as he travelled way out past the Barcoo, along the dusty plains and beside the dry creek beds...
Barney Greatrex
From Bomber Command to the French Resistance - the stirring story of an Australian hero
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
The incredible untold World War II story of Australian hero BARNEY GREATREX - from Bomber Command to French Resistance fighter.
A school and university cadet in Sydney, Barney Greatrex signed up for RAF Bomber Command in 1941, eager to get straight into the very centre of the Allied counterattack....