Collection: Biographies

It's never too early to start reading to your baby. Baby's First Stories presents a blend of read-aloud stories and high-contrast visuals to stimulate baby as you read. With four stories, featuring an adorable elephant, panda, whale and bunny. Jane Foster's bold artwork uses a limited palette of ...

Cardinal George Pell is the most prominent Catholic leader in Australia at a time when Church's handling of sexual abuse is being closely investigated. He is also the confessor of prime-minister-in-waiting Tony Abbott. A news-breaking and definitive portrait of Pell, at a time of maximum tension ...

When Elisa Segrave uncovered a cache of wartime diaries written by her mother, she had no idea that she would be brought face to face with a character utterly different from the troubled woman who had become so reliant on her. Now, on the pages before her, Segrave encountered Anne Hamilton-Grace,...

The author grew up in the shadow of Hitler's Germany. Adolph Hitler wanted every fit German youth for his armies and he was drafted, like so many other German men. In this memoir, he recounts the trauma of World War 2 through the eyes of a German solider thrown into a war he doesn't want to be a ...

When Mark Donaldson was awarded the Victoria Cross in 2009, he was the first Australian to receive our highest award for bravery since Keith Payne's medal in 1969. Mark showed extraordinary courage when he rescued an Afghan interpreter under heavy fire during a bloody ambush in Afghanistan.

From humble beginnings, raised by a single mother who often worked two jobs to support her family, to being considered the fastest female hurdler in the world, Sally Pearson's honest pursuit of excellence, and her refusal to allow any obstacle to stand in her way, has lead her to be one of the gr...

Kerry Stokes is one of Australia's most enigmatic and successful business moguls, but what has it cost to live a real rags-to-riches story?