Hardie Grant: 584 books

Born in Queenscliff to English migrant parents, William Lawrence Baillieu first rose to prominence as a successful auctioneer during Melbournes feverish land boom of the 1880s. He quickly built an enormous fortune, which he then subsequently lost in the crash of the early 1890s. But, ever the astute...

For a century now, Bali has been the subject of a beautiful mythology created by movies and music, but there are few factual accounts of its transformation from besieged peasant colony to booming tourist mecca.It’s a tale begging to be told: a story of survival in the face of genocide, natural...

An inside account of some of Australias most gruesome and recent crime cases. Go inside a maximum security jail unit to learn why feared prisoner Matthew Charles Johnson murdered drug boss Carl Williams in the most brutal way possible. Question how a two-time killer was allowed the freedom to murder...

When Andrew Fraser's world collapsed after 30 years as a high profile criminal lawyer he could hardly have imagined what would follow. Thrown into prison after cocaine use bought him undone, he was to experience the very worst that the Australian prison system has to offer. Placed in maximum-security...

Id always thought spiritual enlightenment would involve candles, meditative music and maybe even a happy faced person wearing an orange robe banging a gong occasionally. Never in my wildest imaginings did I expect it would happen when I was on all fours vomiting my guts out beside a sugar cane field...

Written with Denise's trademark candour, All That Happened at Number 26 is part memoir, part stand-up comedy and completely beguiling.I'll never forget the first time John and I saw number 26. We just knew it was going to be ours. It was so awful and ugly and repulsive in every way, not to mention...

Always in the spotlight, always controversial, this is the story of a football great forced to confront his demons. From his career highs to personal lows and the media storms that have surrounded them, Brendan Fevola opens up for the first time about his time as an AFL great and his controversial offfield...

Footys Glory Days captures the spirit and the venues, the characters and the coverage, and of course the controversies of the Australian football days before the national AFL competition. This was the high-water mark of footy as a spectacle. One-on-one contests, pack marks, spectacular goal-scoring feats...

Uncommon Heroes transports you back to a time when rugby league was a bruising tribal contest of local rivalries, muddy grounds were packed with fans and the corporate juggernaut of today’s game was all but a distant dream.Much more than a weekend game and points table, rugby league was an...

‘The bomb craters and the death and destruction have been ploughed over. The homes and the church and the buildings have been rebuilt. But the memories remain.’ July 2016 marks the centenary of the Battle of Fromelles Australia’s worst-ever military defeat. On 19 July 1916, a British...

Stuart O'Grady is an inspirational but very human sports hero, and Battle Scars is an enthralling read for anyone interested in elite sport.In 2007, when Stuart OGrady abandoned Stage 8 of the Tour de France after crashing on a descent and fracturing eight ribs, a shoulder blade, collarbone, three vertebrae...

World-renowned aesthetic plastic surgeon Dr Bryan Mendelson guides us through the fascinating history of facial surgery. From his patients own stories, learn what its like when whats on the outside doesnt match who we are on the inside.Travel back through the millennia to see how the communal societies...

A biography as sensuously satisfying as a fine French meal. Colette surely would have approved it as much for its aesthetic appeal as for its rare insight and scholarship. Robyn DavidsonColettes France is the remarkable life story of an extraordinary woman, who was known simply as Colette.This lavishly...

Deep Field is a UN term for humanitarian operations that take place in extremis – amid the destruction caused by war and natural disaster. In Deep Field: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Aid Relief Australian aid worker Tom Bamforth takes you with him as he responds to the challenges of delivering...