Collection: Nonfiction

A quick and easy guide to choosing and caring for houseplants. The Houseplant Handbook is a useful guide on how to find perfect plant matches for your home environments with a sustainable and innovative approach. Focusing on working with the plants you already own, the book is divided in chapters...

"Lugma in Arabic means a 'bite'. For Noor, as a chef and co-author of two Ottolenghi Test Kitchen cookbooks, her career has been centred around taking bites of food and analysing them to create the perfect dish. Raised in Bahrain and now based in London, Noor takes you on a culinary journey to ce...

When calculating income necessary for retirement, experts provide a dollar figure excluding rent and mortgage repayments. That's right! They assume that most Australians will have paid off their family home by the time they stop working. This is no longer the case. Home-ownership rates are declin...

For all the books on pregnancy, preparing for parenthood and what to expect postpartum, very few touch on what happens when you're faced with going it alone. Mothering on Our Own is a raw and honest collection of 30 stories from single and solo mothers. Whether by circumstance or choice, solo and...

The first major cookbook on Pakistani food, Pakistan puts this delicious and varied cuisine in its cultural context. Thanks to shared borders with Afghanistan, China, India, and Iran, and a history of migration and trade, Pakistani dishes draw upon a marvellous array of flavours and ingredients t...

Piece by Piece: 20 modern patchwork and quilting projects to make from preloved fabrics is a hands-on craft book complete with patterns, tutorials and projects that use a mix of quilting, patchwork and appliqué. Designer, maker and founder of textile studio Working Cloth, Lauren MacDonald shares...

A complete guide to everything you need to know when pruning and training your plants with confidence, from the experts at the RHS Cut with confidence: know when and how to prune your trees and plants with this complete guide from the experts at the RHS. Keep your garden in top shape with the RHS...

Turn your passion for renovating and home design into profit. Do you love the idea of renovating and flipping houses, but you're scared to take the plunge? Stop Dreaming and Start Renovating for Profit is an inspiring, practical how-to guide for creating financial independence by renovating and r...

Trails to Freedom is the story of a solo hike across the Alps that brings to life the fascinating, largely unknown history of the Anzac POWs who escaped Fascist Italy to find safety in neutral Switzerland during WWII. In October 1943, four Australian soldiers left Biella in the foothills of the A...

Umai is an introduction to the comfort and serenity of Japan; it is an exploration and celebration of a culture deeply rooted in food. With over 80 delicious dishes that evoke the country's rich heritage, Umai covers easy lunches, family favourites and classics designed for sharing, as well as si...