Hachette Australia: 432 books
by Inga Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Shortlisted for The Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal 2015
Longlisted for The Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015
Longlisted for The Australian Literary Studies Gold Medal 2015
Longlisted for The Stella Prize 2015
A gripping and thought-provoking novel about...
The Rag Tag Fleet
The unknown story of the Australian men and boats that helped win the war in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The unknown story of how a fleet of Australian fishing boats, trawlers and schooners supplied US and Australian forces in the Pacific - and helped turn the course of World War II.
Mid-1942: from China to New Guinea, the Pacific belonged to the Japanese. In this desperate situation, a fleet...
by Li Feng
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
'Deeply moving story of self-sacrifice and pride' - Jennifer Byrne, Australian Women's Weekly
One family's epic tale of survival in tumultuous twentieth-century China.
Li Feng grew up in Mao's communist China with her mother's motto burning in her ears - Success demands two things: unconditional...
by Colin McLaren
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
**Assassination? Conspiracy? Evidence of the shocking truth is finally revealed.
'Shocking new details' - Herald Sun**
On 22nd November 1963, the 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and his wife Jackie were taking part in a presidential motorcade through Dallas....
Rogue Nation
Fascinating, relevant, compelling the one book about Australian politics you must read
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Reporting from the backrooms and corridors of Parliament House in Canberra to the streets of post-industrial Burnie in Tasmania, the struggling rural communities of Gippsland and the Queensland heartland, Royce Kurmelovs captures with perceptive, real-time analysis the rise of Australian populism.
The...
Ambon
The Truth About One of the Most Brutal POW Camps in World War II and the Triumph of the Aussie Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Survival, heroism, courage and mateship in Ambon - a place of nightmares.
In February, 1942, Ambon, an Indonesian island north of Darwin, fell to the Japanese army and the Allied forces defending it were captured. Over a thousand of these soldiers were Australian. By the end of the war, just...
Skimpy
Outrageous true tales of crocodiles, snakes and pulling beers in the Outback
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Fans of Paul Carter will love this fast-paced and funny memoir featuring nudist neighbours, sex in croc-infested waters, frogs in the toilet and a resident snake in Kellie's kitchen that may or may not be lethal. These are the outrageous stories of a feisty girl who decided to go bush.
SKIMPY...
by Roger Cole
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Can you mend a broken heart and begin to love again? Can you remain calm in an ever-changing world? Discover who you really are ? a peaceful soul ? and what your true purpose in life is.
We all experience grief, loss or sadness at some time in our lives. Through spiritual lessons, meditations...
Right & Wrong
How to Decide for Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
In modern Western societies we are presented with a huge array of choices and encouraged to believe that having the freedom to choose sets us on the path to happiness. Yet, as renowned social commentator Hugh Mackay shows in RIGHT & WRONG, freedom to choose is no freedom at all unless it is accompanied...
by Inga Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE AWARD FOR FICTION 2017
LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017
A beautiful new novel about the innocence of childhood and the scars that stay with you for life, from the award winning author of Mr Wigg and Nest.
'All in?' Kieran pulled me up, and...
by Richie Lovett, Sean Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
'Richie is one of the most inspiring people I've ever met, and his story is testament to the healing power of the ocean.' Kelly Slater
Goes surfing, beats cancer. One man's inspirational story.
Richie Lovett might be the world?s unluckiest surfer . . . or its luckiest. We?re not quite...
Gallipoli
The Battlefield Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
The essential travel companion for anyone visiting Gallipoli.
Each year, thousands of Australians visit Gallipoli to pay homage and see where their forebears fought, suffered and died. Anzac Cove, Quinn's Post, Lone Pine - the iconic places where our national legend was forged.
In this...
On the Record
Politics, Politicians and Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
ON THE RECORD is a collection of the very best of Laurie Oakes' reporting over more than forty years. He is a legend in the Canberra press gallery for breaking the big stories, and asking the difficult questions. Some of the decisive points of the 2010 election campaign are classic examples of this......
The Suitcase Baby
The heartbreaking true story of a shocking crime in 1920s Sydney
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 NED KELLY AWARD, DANGER PRIZE AND WAVERLEY LIBRARY NIB
True history that is both shocking and too real, this unforgettable tale moves at the pace of a great crime novel.
In the early hours of Saturday morning, 17 November 1923, a suitcase was found washed up...