Hachette Australia: 432 books
Things Bogans Like
Tribal Tatts to Reality TV: How to Recognise the Twenty-first Century Bogan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Now includes new material, MAXTREME UPDATED EPILOGUE.
It is time to bring to the world?s attention the modern Australian bogan. The word is still associated with flannelette, VB, utes and mullets. This is WRONG. The word bogan needs to be reassessed.
Meet the nouveau-bogue. The modern...
Under the Same Sky
From Iran to Australia, an unforgettable story of seeking refuge, being torn apart by government detention and freed by love
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
After fleeing their homeland, Australian refugee policies threaten to tear this young couple apart. An unforgettable story of love, hope and a quest for freedom.
At seventeen, all Mojgan Shamsalipoor wanted was to be safe from physical and sexual abuse, go to school, and to eventually marry...
by Adele Dumont
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This is the book about immigration detention that all Australians need to read.
During the time of the Gillard government, 24-year-old Sydneysider Adele Dumont accepted a volunteer position to teach English to men in immigration detention on Christmas Island. She did not expect to find the...
Me of the Never Never
The Chaotic Life and Times of Fiona O'Loughlin
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Nothing turns out as you plan, I guess; but I often think if I'd gone to a fortune teller when I was at school and been told I'd marry a guy who makes false teeth, move to Alice Springs, have five kids and become a standup comedian; well, I would have been surprised to say the least.'
Fiona...
Ned Kelly
A Short Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
'the best Kelly biography by a country mile' - The Australian
The definitive biography of Ned Kelly - and a superb description of his times.
A bestseller since it was first published, Ned Kelly: A Short Life is acknowledged as being the definitive biography.
Ian Jones combines...
by Penelope Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The second book in a much loved Italian travel memoir trilogy which also includes the delightful When in Rome and Girl by Sea.
After three years living and working in Italy, Australian journalist Penelope Green needs a reason to stick around - true love or gainful employment.
When a...
The Scandalous Freddie McEvoy
The true story of the swashbuckling Australian rogue
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Swashbuckler, daredevil racing-car champion, Winter Olympian, gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud and suspected Nazi agent who died a mysterious death - this is the fascinating story of the scandalous Freddie McEvoy.
Born in Melbourne in 1907, Freddie's life took him from socialising with a...
That'd Be Right
A Fairly True History of Modern Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
'a funny and clever reminiscence about what happened in Australia over the past 30 years ... Told with a delightful insight and sense of whimsy.' Daily Telegraph
In THAT'D BE RIGHT, much loved actor and author William McInnes gives his personal view on the things we love ? sport, families,...
Girl By Sea
Love, Life and Food on an Italian Island
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The conclusion to Penelope Green's bestselling trilogy about her life in Italy that includes When in Rome and See Naples and Die
From her rooftop terrace, Penelope looks out across the sparkling waters of the Bay of Naples, and into a garden of lemon trees and magnolias. Has her Italian dream...
by Samuel Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
If you could ask Santa for absolutely anything, what would you ask for?
Samuel Johnson OAM, Australia's favourite skylarker, brother and determined cancer vanquisher, has asked his friends and supporters (who just happen to be some of Australia's best writers, comics, actors, artists, musicians...
Hell on Earth
Sandakan - Australia's Greatest War Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The heart-rending story of the Australians brutally imprisoned in Sandakan, the Japanese POW camp in North Borneo, whose very name came to symbolise cruelty and ill-treatment.
In mid-1942, after the fall of Singapore, almost three thousand Allied prisoners of war were taken by the Japanese...
by Sophie Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
***THE TOP TEN AUSTRALIAN BESTSELLER***
'The perfect novel to curl up with on a cosy night in' Hello
'The story of these resilient women is tender and intimate . . . As heartwarming, fulfilling and Australian as a lamb roast and full-bodied shiraz' Australian Women's Weekly
LONGLISTED...
by Chris Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Currently starring in CBS's hit series Dr Chris: Pet Vet in the US and delighting audiences in Australia as the host of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!, Chris Brown is a man of many talents but one thing will always stay constant in his life; his love of animals. For this son of a country vet,...
by Roland Perry
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
This is the moving, powerful and surprising story of a group of Australian POWs who organise an Australian Rules Football competition under the worst conditions imaginable - inside Changi prison.
After Singapore falls to the Japanese early in 1942, 70 000 prisoners including 15 000 Australians,...