Hardie Grant Books: 294 books

After bursting on to the Australian music scene in 1975, Dragon fast developed a reputation for both hard rocking and hard living. As the highly visible and charismatic lead singer, Marc Hunter was the voice behind such timeless hits as April Sun in Cuba, Are You Old Enough? and Rain. Yet Hunter was...

The President’s Desk is the story of America as seen through the eyes of its most powerful piece of furniture. Standing in the most important office in the land for over a hundred years, it has been sat at by no less than twenty-four of the greatest men who ever lived (I’m leaving out Nixon, obviously)....

This deluxe edition of Helen ONeills award-winning book is a must for lovers of design. With stunning full-page prints of Florence Broadhursts distinctive fabric and wallpaper designs, together with gorgeous photographs of interiors from around the world using her amazing patterns, this is a beautiful...

In the world of Mad Meg, life is consumed by art. The present is unalterably coloured by the silences, loyalties and betrayals of the past.Isobel tries to unravel the secrets of her parents: her kind but crazy mother, Stella, and her rogue but dearly loved father, Henri. Her campaigning sister,...

A celebration of the building and architecture of Federation Square, which has become one of our most important landmarks and a global triumph of architectural design.

It is a common belief that creativity is something you are born with, and others can only envy. Most creative people are, in fact, just as ordinary as the rest of us. What they have is a belief in themselves, and this is a skill that everyone can learn.In Change Your Mind, Rod Judkins reveals the 57...

Chippie, surfie, glam rocker in bib n braces, kids show host, breakfast DJ and straight-talking superstar, Graeme Ronald Strachan was many things to many people. But he was always Shirley, from the time his teenage surfie mates re-christened him to the day he died in a helicopter crash in 2001, aged...

Australian music has a proud, colourful and successful history. In 2008, Australian rock & roll turned 50. This book names the best Australian albums of the last 50 years. It places each album in order (from 1 100) and discuss why each album deserves its place. It tells the story behind the making of...

There is no "The Future". "The Future" does not exist independently of the choices wemake today, individually and as a society. What the future holds depends entirely on us,on those alive today. It's an enormous responsibility, being alive in these times.'We can change the world - and the need for change...

The unique inside story, revealing the truth behind the headlines of how the peace process was begun and how it was brought to fruition.

There is no shortage of sporting stars making headlines off the field for all the wrong reasons. From dodgy dalliances bubbling to the surface, to marriages shattered, lucrative endorsement deals flushed down the toilet and clubs that can no longer hold onto players who have stuffed up in very big ways....

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...

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...