Hardie Grant: 584 books

Larrikin, laid-back, too casual, bad influence, ball magnet and superstar these are just some of the labels given to Dane Swan, one of the great characters of the AFL’s professional era. Taken by Collingwood at pick 58 in the 2001 ‘super draft’, no one saw a future Brownlow medallist but the...

An exploration of TV year-by-year from 1956, reporting in time-capsule mode on celebrities and shows as they happened, from Happy Hammond and Skippy to the live telecast of the terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Centre.

'Raw and real and funny and sad – I could not put this book down' – Jane Kennedy 'You might expect fluff and fashion ... what you get is harrowing, full-strength, funny and deeply satisfying – Zoë Foster Blake Unflinching, funny, shocking, inspiring and tender: this is a story...

As I was about to make my Test debut Shane Warne said to me: ‘Huss, you’re good enough to be here, you don’t have to prove anything to any of us. Just go and play your way and you can’t fail, mate.’At the end of Michael Hussey’s tenth summer in first-class cricket at age 30 he...

On 19 July 1916, in the northern French village of Fromelles, Australia suffered its worst-ever military defeat when a British officer ordered 15,000 of our best and bravest to go over the top and attack the German lines. Eight hours later, more than 5500 Diggers lay dead or wounded: the equivalent...

Charts a modern-day adventure completed more than 200 years after Matthew Flinders' original journey. As well as providing unique insights and stunning images of some of the most remote and inaccessible parts of the Australian coastline, it is a tale of daring and wonder on the high seas.

For nigh on 30 years, players in our academies and leagues were routinely plundered by massive, cashed-up overseas clubs that offered fame, glory, worldclass competition and astronomical pay packets. Until 2005, when Frank Lowy and John O'Neill staged an extraordinary rejuvenation of the local competition...

Les Murray is Australias most respected expert on Football. In The Worlds Game he draws upon his many years of watching critiquing and reporting on football around the world and shares his greatest moments. An entertaining writer his books are widely read and enjoyed. This is Les Murrays first book...

Shark! The word alone induces terror, but what is it like to stare into the jaws of a shark? Sharks Never Sleep is Brendan McAloon’s gripping investigation into our complex relationship of fear and fascination with sharks. In an attempt to combat fear with facts, he takes us on a journey...

A book of naughty stories for good boys and girls! Would you ever swallow a goldfish, or throw cat's wee at someone, or make your teacher go mad? Of course not. Because you are a GOOD kid, unlike the naughty children in these repulsive stories...

Lillee and Thomson — a fast-bowling, fire-breathing, batsman-battering combination with no peer, who tore apart England body and soul in the 1974–75 Ashes, then put the might of Clive Lloyd’s West Indies to the sword the next wild summer. This is their story, seen through...

Now updated to also include all our George Cross winners, VC has been considered a classic work of Australian military history ever since its first publication in 1963. Together with detailed descriptions of the battles they fought in, VC contains full biographies of all Australians who have won the...

Welcome to Wanderland is Michael Visontay’s insightful and passionate account of the Western Sydney Wanderers. The club has achieved a combination of football success and civic pride that redefines sporting passion in Australia. In four short years, the Wanderers have reached three grand finals...

Say what you like about Jason Akermanis - footballer, showman, show-off, troublemaker - there's no denying that he's made an impression in his 15 years as an AFL star player. Now, after more than 300 games, three Premierships and a Brownlow Medal, the curtain has come down on his extraordinary career....