Hardie Grant: 584 books

Landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915, fighting at Lone Pine, surviving Fromelles and suffering Bullecourt, George Martindale’s war experiences reflect a litany of our nation’s hallowed trials. George described these actions for members of his family in the letters...

A powerful, inspirational, self help guide to positive thinking from leading Australian Mind Body Spirit columnist and writer Ruth Ostrow. Magic Happens complements her previous highly successful and beautiful book, The Gift. Magic Happens is a motivating, practial guide to understanding and changing...

As a captain in the Georgian navy Arthur Phillips integrity, intelligence and persistence made him perfectly suited to the role that history and circumstance presented to him in 1788, but landing the First Fleet at Botany Bay was only one of many achievements in a captivating life.His is a story of...

Written in a sweeping, almost literary style, this detailed biography of Clifton Pugh is a landmark volume that offers an alternative perspective to the biography of Clifton's former wife, Judith Pugh's Unstill Life (2008

From the secret files of John W. Howard comes the hidden and often surprising correspondence between our Prime Minister and his Queen, Elizabeth II. Decidedly one-sided, the letters show the qualities of Howard he hasnt yet shown to the Australian public, unveiling his true thoughts on the issues that...

I lived the ‘life of Riley’ in London at an early age. It was a preposterously wonderful time of fun, glamour, career excitement and excess. It finally ended. I later got a spot of cancer. Life goes on and I’m still a ridiculously lucky girl from Oz.In her gripping personal memoir, A...

The handy quiz book that helps you to know everything about every generation that ever lived ever. Are you a baby boomer feeling out of touch with todays modern dudes? I mean why do those Gen Ys wear their underpants so high and their jeans so low? Perhaps you are a member of Generation X, stuck like...

A great series about the real life mischief every boy gets up to! Written in simple language and full of Australian humour. Charlie has borrowed three dollars from his mum to buy an icy pole, and Charlies dad has brought home a dingo pup. So Mum isnt happy with either Dad or Charlie! To get back in her...

And so begins an extraordinary memoir by outstanding new talent P.J. Parker. Spanning three generations, The Long Goodbye takes us deep into the lives of an Australian family as they survive record-breaking floods, outlast epic droughts and face the unforgiving realities of life on the land. This...

A hilarious and irreverent tale of growing up in the suburbs. Digger Field has a dream. This summer, he is going to become the champion rock skimmer of the world. Nothing is going to stop him. Not his dropkick brother. Not his archenemy. Not even that weird guy who looks like a gangster.

A great junior fiction series about what makes us do the naughty things we do! Biddy is excited when she spots a real-life Princess Tower from the window of the train. So is the invisible imp that lives in her hair it is going to lead to all sorts of trouble! Mum says the tower is a cathedral, but what...

Could this be the true story behind Shakespeare’s Hamlet? Full of humour and fun that will attract reluctant readers, the Willy Waggledagger series is an excellent recommendation for kids who love Andy Griffiths.

A series for girls who love fairies ... and those who don’t! Not all fairies are sweet and pink some are little horrors! Weava is a young witch, who is sure she will receive an invite to a school for bad fairies any day. But when she goes to stay with her sister, Merry, things don’t turn out the...

Audrey is Australia’s response to Pippi Longstocking. Determined, mischievous, imaginative and inquisitive, Audrey of the Outback will have every girl in the country, wishing she were a swaggie.