Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's 'greatest living historian', a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about the...

Named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2016. For close to fifty years, three masters of the hard-boiled detective novel dispatched intrep...

Named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2016. For close to fifty years, three masters of the hard-boiled detective novel dispatched intrep...

At his death in 1985, Alden Nowlan stood in the first rank of Canadian writers. Today, his poetry is beloved by Maritimers and popular across Canad...

TEXT IN ITALIAN. The work of A Tabucchi, one of Italy's greatest contemporary writers, is imbued with the topic of individual identity. His texts q...

Through verse and lyrics, L. Ron Hubbard communicates his personal view of the world as no other art form can. His works span the entirety of his l...

The moving story of Frank Entwistle, a Lancashire lad, who grew up in the shadow of England's twentieth century mills. It tells of his subsequent j...

This collection recounts the story of leaving America, where the author was born, and of arriving in Australia, where she did not plan to stay.  It...

Rob Walker, columnist for The New York Times Magazine, energises the lately enervated worlds of memoir and travelogue with his book-length debut, '...

It has been stated that Charles Dickens began life as a lawyer, got tired of the dull routine, and turned to literature. This is erroneous, for he ...

"In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of scie...

"For a long time I used to go to bed early": possibly the most famous opening line in the French language and the first words of a masterly work wh...

This book is a fresh appraisal of the writer who made American fiction and travel writing popular worldwide. Looking at his life and his body of wr...

Hans Sachs (1494-1576), while also a cobbler, was the most prolific German author of the 16th century. He was the immediate literary successor in p...

Shortlisted, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction AwardWarm, imaginative, and thoroughly original, this memoir intertwines the mysteries of trees with the defi...

For over 100 years, the animal books and stories of beloved children’s author Thornton W. Burgess have delighted millions of children and their par...

Winner of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour The cops wanted to shoot me, my bosses thought I was a Bolshevik, and a local lawyer warned me...

Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) was a pioneer in the way he charmed his young readers with an innovative and engaging aesthetic approach to the pict...

A great conversation can offer insight into the hearts and minds of its participants. In this intimate, wide-ranging collection of conversations (a...

This book offers an entertaining and comprehensive assessment of Chandler's turbulent association with Hollywood, both as a screenwriter whose cred...

The struggles of those called to write, suffering rejection after rejection until finally recognised. This work explores the psychological and arch...

James Rahn has led the Rittenhouse Writers' Group since he founded it in 1988, making it one of America's longest-running independent fiction works...

A quick-paced and engaging biography of Canada's favourite northern poet, Robert Service. Born in England in 1874 to Scottish parents, Robert Willi...

One hundred years ago, a shy bank clerk sent a collection of his poems south from the Yukon to be privately published and shared with a small group...

Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...

Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...

How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a ‘ravishing, immersing read’, A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a ‘wild ride’ through ...

A former police officer tells his personal story of the long climb from depression to faith in the intense new personal memoir The Backpack. An ama...

Whatever happened to him actually outshines anything I’ve had my James Bond do. -- Ian Fleming James Bond: author, ornithologist, marksman, and .....

Australian poet and journalist Zora Cross caused a sensation in 1917 with her book Songs of Love and Life. Here was a young woman, who looked like ...

In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, travelled 6,500 miles to Sakhalin island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing vi...

Writer Elspeth Sandys was born during the Second World War, the result of a brief encounter between two people who would never meet again. The firs...

This mouthwatering, intimate, and sensual memoir traces Monica Meneghetti’s unique life journey through her relationship with food, family and love...

Under the covers of Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets, David Eso and Jeanette Lynes collect letters and epistolary...

Lavishly illustrated with beautiful, evocative watercolors, this record visits dozens of locations influential to the life of Pulitzer Prize-winnin...

I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with tho...

Writers on the Air brings to print for the first time Donna Seaman's vibrant author interviews from her Chicago-based radio program, Open Books. In...

Ehud Diskin's mother wanted him to play it safe when he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces. Instead, he volunteered for one of the IDF's mo...

Robin Hyde's extraordinary but short life (1906-39) included a precocious early career as poet and parliamentary reporter. As a journalist, she jug...

One of the most famous poets in the history of Turkish literature, Yunus Emre (d. 1320) is well-known as a Sufi saint-poet who has exerted a great ...