Hachette Australia: 432 books
by Kimberley Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
It's 1925 and change is everywhere, even in rural Australia - but is Flora ready? Includes bonus material from Kimberley Freeman's captivating new Jazz age novel, Evergreen Falls.
Flora Honeychurch-Black awakens on the day of her engagement party excited yet somehow unsettled. Throughout the...
by Kimberley Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
A story of passion, greed, secrets and lies.
A reclusive woman living in outback Australia receives a letter acknowledging a terrible secret from her past. Thirty years before, she stole another woman's life. From the moment the letter is opened two women are on a collision course with destiny.
From...
by Samuel Johnson, Connie Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Shortlisted for the ABIA Award (Biography of the Year) 2015
A searingly honest memoir of family, cancer, love ... and unicycles by the founders of the Love your Sister charity, Connie and Samuel Johnson, that will inspire and they hope get people talking about boobs!
Born a year apart,...
Precious Bodily Fluids
1961. A Boy. A Pub. And the Great Fluoride Debate
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
`a funny, evocative memoir that perfectly captures a significant slice of Australian life.? Peter FitzSimons
It is the end of 1961 and the New South Wales country town of Albury lies flat on its back in the sun, swatting flies, with its feet sticking out over the mighty Murray River into Victoria....
No Way! Okay, Fine
A memoir of pop culture, feminism and feelings
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
"Brodie is whip smart; merging pop-culture references with vulnerable, personal experiences to create a collection that reads like a hilarious catch-up call with an old friend. What a pleasure to hear from this fresh, extremely relevant point of view." Abbi Jacobson, CO-CREATOR / WRITER / STAR of...
Fatherhood
Stories about being a dad
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
William McInnes, one of Australia's best-known storytellers and actors, has turned to a subject that is close to his heart. Fatherhood is about family, about memories of his father and the memories he's creating as a dad himself, with his own son and daughter.
Warm, witty and nostalgic, these...
The Bulldog Track
A grandson's story of an ordinary man's war and survival on the other Kokoda trail
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps, is sharing this inspiring tale of resilience and survival.
March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to fight and with jobs scarce at home, Tom...
Eddie
The rise and rise of Eddie McGuire
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
The inspiring biography of one of Australia's best-known businessmen, TV stars and footy club presidents.
Eddie McGuire charts the incredible rise of Edward Joseph McGuire AM from his childhood in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows, through his nightclub days as an ambitious...
Mailman of the Birdsville Track
The story of Tom Kruse
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
The truly classic Australian story of Tom Kruse - legendary mailman of the Birdsville Track.
For the people who lived in the desert between Marree and Birdsville, contact with the outside world was hard and sporadic - but one man was their lifeline: Tom Kruse. For more than twenty years he...
by Madonna King
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, ABIA AWARDS 2018
Is your daughter 14? Are you struggling to know what's going on inside her head? Are you worried?
This is the book that can help you understand how she's feeling, what she's thinking and what you need to do to help her navigate...
Hack in a Flak Jacket
Wars, riots and revolutions - dispatches from a foreign correspondent
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A startlingly honest account of experiencing war and terrorism from the frontline by Peter Stefanovic, one of Australia's leading journalists and foreign correspondents.
'Flak jackets are dreadful things. Sure, they have a purpose, and if one ever stopped a bullet or piece of shrapnel from...
Don't You Know Who I Used to Be?
From Manolos to Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Julia Morris is the first to admit she does not know much, but these are some of the things she knows for sure: - Writing a Logie speech when you are aged eight is not normal; - Cathy Freeman is the only woman in the world who looks good in white lycra; - $22,000 Aussie dollars converts to about 23...
Fear No Boundary
One Woman's Amazing Journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
'Climbing is a bit like rolling a dice - sometimes things fall into place and you achieve your aim. Sometimes your number comes up.' - Sue Fear, April 2006
When mountaineers Lincoln Hall and Sue Fear collaborated in writing Fear No Boundary, neither could have imagined that within a year one...
Power Plays
The Real Stories of Australian Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Laurie Oakes is the most influential political journalist in Australia - if he says something has happened, the rest of the media (especially the Canberra Press Gallery) believe him and report it as news. He is respected by both political insiders and the wider public. He has worked in Canberra as...