Hardie Grant Books: 294 books

From 1975 to 2001, Andrew Fraser was a leading criminal solicitor with a successful national practice. And then it all went horribly wrong. In 1999 he was charged with being knowingly concerned with the importation of a commercial quantity of cocaine. Fraser pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing and...

Greg Chappell was the outstanding Australian batsman of his generation. Though he had an appetite for big scores, it was his calm brow and courtly manner that bowlers found just as disheartening. When he followed his brother Ian into the Australian captaincy, his feat of scoring centuries in each innings...

Malcolm Blight is as famous for his mercurial nature as he is for his footy and his coaching. Hes been a fixture on the Aussie Rules scene since he began playing for the Woodville FC in the SANFL in the late 1960s. In the 1970s he joined North Melbourne FC and made his mark as a consistently brilliant...

Chappy is a raw and honest account of a glittering 16-year AFL career that scaled rare heights but included personal trauma as Paul Chapman discovered exactly who he was.From the angry young man who arrived at Geelong following the tragic accidental death of his brother Glenn in 1998, to the...

sparked a deadly chain-reaction that has so far led to the deaths of a further

When RocKwiz, the hugely popular SBS TV rock trivia show, look for questions, there is one resource they continually turn to Toby Creswell's 1001 Songs. The stories behind the great songs of all time from Gershwin to Missy Elliott, from Bob Dylan to Alicia Keys, Sinatra to Offsping, Leonard Cohen to...

A savvy and accessible guide to helping anyone, male or female, keep up with a broad range of conversations at dinners, parties, dates and more.

“The average American family has no time for television.”- The New York Times, 1939 No one can predict the future, but that has never stopped us trying.Throughout history, science and technology have promised us visions of possible futures filled with medical miracles and flying cars. We have turned...

Billionaire Boy: Mark Zuckerburg in his own words is a revealing insight into the mind and vision ofthe worlds youngest billionaire and founder and CEO of Facebook.The Mark Zuckerburg most people know is the one depicted in Academy Awardwinning film TheSocial Network: a nerdy, insecure and socially awkward...

You've had your babies and taken a year or more off work and now it's time to get out there and start earning again. How? Has the working world changed while you've been nurturing your brood? Or have you?

Storm Cloud reveals the hidden story of Melbourne Storm. Founded in 1998 in the middle of the AFL heartland, Melbourne Storm fast established itself as one of the Australias greatest football teams. Winning three of five grand finals and producing the best players in the game, it seemed infallible. But...

The Future Makers is a groundbreaking new work by wine writer Max Allen, set to redefine Australias wine landscape for the new century. As global warming and continued drought threaten the state of the Australian wine industry, many winemakers are beginning to think long-term, and in doing so are starting...

In James Halliday’s Top 100 Australian Wineries, James Halliday, Australia’s leading wine writer and former, long-serving wine judge, makes his personal selection of our finest 100 wineries from Bannockburn to Bay of Fires, Woodlands to Wirra Wirra.Arranged alphabetically, and representing...

Praise for NOT THE COSTELLO MEMOIRS 'This is one of the hardest reviews I will write. John Howard has been the finest prime minister Australia has ever had ... but this is a brilliant, lucid and powerful historical portrait ... compelling and accurate insight into the man who should have been PM.' Janet...