Hardie Grant: 584 books

You might think happiness is to be found in a pay rise or a new job, a holiday, a marriage (or divorce), an updated kitchen or that great pair of shoes you’ve got your eye on. But the cliché is true: happiness truly is in the journey, not the destination. Psychologist Cassandra Dunn believes...

A warm, inventive and funny series about three siblings who live by their own rules. Mila Tinkler is worried. A flat in the Tinklers’ building has been empty for months, and no ghosts have moved in yet! Luckily Mila has some ideas about how to attract ghosts. First of all, they need somewhere to boo-gie!

The wonderful thing about making a salad is that it’s a relaxed, stress-free way of cooking, with endless possibilities for customisation. By simply adding in a handful of toasted nuts, something sweet like sultanas, a few spoonfuls of chewy grains like barley or spelt, then a crumbling of cheese;...

Filled with beautifully layered and evocative images, this is stunning collection of unusual photographs that together evoke the true spirit of Italy. The culture, landscape, and locals as well as some of the country's most famous locations are all addressed, including the crowded, chaotic streets of...

Poetry? For today's readers? Yes, and not just for those who buy their poetry collections religiously either: 100 Australian Poems is for everyone. Frustrated by the perception that Australian poetry is dry, inaccessible and focused only on the country's landscape, acclaimed poet Jamie Grant decided...

Oceans apart, low down, far from the world’s music-making epicentres is a country - Australia - that throws up music unlike any place else. This music moves the people who live there in strange and deep-felt ways, gives them something to rage, shout, dream, dance, remember, love and break up to....

It was a sunny Sunday afternoon when the phone rang. I was idly wondering if I had the will to vacuum. The siren call of the phone offered a reprieve. It was my big brother calling to tell me that my twin brother, Angus, was dead. That’s all he said, ‘He’s dead.’We all know that, one...

Our first female prime minister Julia Gillard came to power suddenly in a coup that perplexed the nation. She hurried to an election and was chained to a hung parliament. She out-negotiated Tony Abbott and formed a minority government, but the deepest threat was from within: the man she beat for the...

Step inside the world of the enigmatic Steve Kilbey frontman of The Church, one of Australia’s best-loved and most successful bands, and 40-year veteran of the music industry, in his memoir, Something Quite Peculiar.Singer, songwriter and bassist. Ethereal, psychedelic and indefinable.Journey...

‘Optimism is a key ingredient for any successful human endeavour - and isn’t keeping Earth viable the greatest human endeavour we can ever undertake? It is a fortunate life if a person feels more optimistic than ever before. That’s me.’Bob Brown, one of Australia’s most thoughtful...

From 1975 to 2001, Andrew Fraser was a leading criminal solicitor with a successful national practice. And then it all went horribly wrong. In 1999 he was charged with being knowingly concerned with the importation of a commercial quantity of cocaine. Fraser pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing and...

Greg Chappell was the outstanding Australian batsman of his generation. Though he had an appetite for big scores, it was his calm brow and courtly manner that bowlers found just as disheartening. When he followed his brother Ian into the Australian captaincy, his feat of scoring centuries in each innings...

Malcolm Blight is as famous for his mercurial nature as he is for his footy and his coaching. Hes been a fixture on the Aussie Rules scene since he began playing for the Woodville FC in the SANFL in the late 1960s. In the 1970s he joined North Melbourne FC and made his mark as a consistently brilliant...

Chappy is a raw and honest account of a glittering 16-year AFL career that scaled rare heights but included personal trauma as Paul Chapman discovered exactly who he was.From the angry young man who arrived at Geelong following the tragic accidental death of his brother Glenn in 1998, to the...