Hardie Grant: 584 books

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When RocKwiz, the hugely popular SBS TV rock trivia show, look for questions, there is one resource they continually turn to Toby Creswell's 1001 Songs. The stories behind the great songs of all time from Gershwin to Missy Elliott, from Bob Dylan to Alicia Keys, Sinatra to Offsping, Leonard Cohen to...

The 100 Best Albums of all Time announces and elaborates on the best albums of released since music gave birth to rock and roll. From the opening snare shot that was heard around the world on Like a Rolling Stone from Bob Dylans stunning Highway 61 Revisited, through the pioneering genius of the Beatles...

Did you know that Crocodile Dundee was based on real-life buffalo hunter Rod Ansell? Or that most of the main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird were inspiredby Harper Lee's own family, neighbours and an innocent man, Walter Lett, who was sentenced to death? Eamon Evans has collected over 400 extraordinary...

A savvy and accessible guide to helping anyone, male or female, keep up with a broad range of conversations at dinners, parties, dates and more.

Jumping Ship is the story of social entrepreneur Michael Traill. An ambitious, competitive kid from a country town, Traill converted his education opportunities in the hallowed halls of Melbourne University’s Trinity College and Harvard Business School into a highly paid and successful career at...

“The average American family has no time for television.”- The New York Times, 1939 No one can predict the future, but that has never stopped us trying.Throughout history, science and technology have promised us visions of possible futures filled with medical miracles and flying cars. We have turned...

Billionaire Boy: Mark Zuckerburg in his own words is a revealing insight into the mind and vision ofthe worlds youngest billionaire and founder and CEO of Facebook.The Mark Zuckerburg most people know is the one depicted in Academy Awardwinning film TheSocial Network: a nerdy, insecure and socially awkward...

You've had your babies and taken a year or more off work and now it's time to get out there and start earning again. How? Has the working world changed while you've been nurturing your brood? Or have you?

Storm Cloud reveals the hidden story of Melbourne Storm. Founded in 1998 in the middle of the AFL heartland, Melbourne Storm fast established itself as one of the Australias greatest football teams. Winning three of five grand finals and producing the best players in the game, it seemed infallible. But...

‘I’m the most successful person to ever run for the Presidency, by far … We will have so much winning if I get elected that you may get bored with winning.’Opinion may be divided when it comes to Donald J Trump. Trump, however, speaks very highly of Trump, as The World According to...

The Future Makers is a groundbreaking new work by wine writer Max Allen, set to redefine Australias wine landscape for the new century. As global warming and continued drought threaten the state of the Australian wine industry, many winemakers are beginning to think long-term, and in doing so are starting...

In James Halliday’s Top 100 Australian Wineries, James Halliday, Australia’s leading wine writer and former, long-serving wine judge, makes his personal selection of our finest 100 wineries from Bannockburn to Bay of Fires, Woodlands to Wirra Wirra.Arranged alphabetically, and representing...

Praise for NOT THE COSTELLO MEMOIRS 'This is one of the hardest reviews I will write. John Howard has been the finest prime minister Australia has ever had ... but this is a brilliant, lucid and powerful historical portrait ... compelling and accurate insight into the man who should have been PM.' Janet...