The Publishing: 5392 books
Something for the Pain
A Memoir of the Turf
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Winner, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, 2016
As a boy, Gerald Murnane became obsessed with horse racing. He had never ridden a horse, nor seen a race. Yet he was fascinated by photos of horse races in the Sporting Globe, and by the incantation of horses' names in radio...
Reckoning
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Winner, Book of the Year and Biography of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards, 2016
Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where Magda Szubanski, one of Australia's most beloved performers, tells her story.
In this extraordinary memoir,...
Capital
Melbourne When It Was the Capital City of Australia 1901-28
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
An original and intriguing history of Melbourne at the tumultuous start of the twentieth century, illustrated throughout with contemporary drawings and photos.
In 1901 Melbourne was a small city. Then the founders of the Australian Commonwealth decided it was the best place to house the new...
Moral Hazard
Text Classics
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
I disapproved of bankers, on principle. Not that I knew any. Until this job, I had worked and made friends with people who shared my views. Mostly moral, mostly kind.
An unlikely candidate, then, for the job of executive speechwriter, to be putting words in the mouths of plutocrats deeply suspicious...
This House of Grief
The Story of a Murder Trial
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Winner, Ned Kelly Awards, Best True Crime, 2015
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, 2014
On the evening of 4 September 2005, Father’s Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, when his car left the road and plunged into...
by Clare Wright
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014.
The Eureka Stockade.
It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and...
No Mercy
True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Disaster strikes. A ship goes down, a plane crashes, a party of travellers is cut off.
But when the panic and confusion subside and the dead are counted, the survivors must find a way to keep surviving. And in desperation, unconstrained by law or conventional authority, the tactics they resort...
Griffith REVIEW 32
Wicked Problems, Exquisite Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
We live in an age of Wicked Problems, Exquisite Dilemmas. From the scale and scope of natural disasters to managing climate change, asylum seeking or river systems, new paradigms of transparency and power demand a new style of leadership, collaborative action and non-linear solutions.
UK journalist...
The Climb
Conversations with Australian Women in Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
A timely, insightful and personal portrait of what it is to be a woman in power in Australia today.
Iconic journalist and television presenter Geraldine Doogue turns her attention to an issue central to our times. How are we, as women, represented at the top levels of power in Australia?
In...
by Robin Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Brilliant, witty, scathing, The Australian Ugliness is the classic postwar account of Australian society, how we live in the environments we create, and the consequences of our failure to think about how we live.
Boyd was a fierce critic, and an advocate of good design. He understood the significance...
365 Men Quotes
Daily Men Quotes to Become More Alpha, Confident and Charismatic
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Shocking Statistics: An Average American Reads 1 Book a Year and 50% of those are Romance Novels…
Look! I do not know who you are but I am sure you are on this page right now because you are someone who wants more. You are someone who do not settle for average. You see, I totally understand...
365 Money Quotes
Daily Money Quotes to Win Your Inner Game of Wealth and Master Your Millionaire Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
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Look! I do not know who you are but I am sure you are on this page right now because you are someone who wants more. You are someone who do not settle for average. You see, I totally understand...
2190 Inspirational Quotes
Motivation, Inspiration, Positive Thinking, Stoicism, Buddha and Taoism Quotes
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Shocking Statistics: An Average American Reads 1 Book a Year and 50% of those are Romance Novels…
Look! I do not know who you are but I am sure you are on this page right now because you are someone who wants more. You are someone who do not settle for average. You see, I totally understand...
365 Self Discipline Quotes
Daily Self Discipline Quotes to Build Lasting Habits, Mental Toughness and Achieve Your Goals
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
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Look! I do not know who you are but I am sure you are on this page right now because you are someone who wants more. You are someone who do not settle for average. You see, I totally understand...