Collection: Adult Non Fiction

A dog groomer offers the tricks of his trade, including instructions on bathing and brushing, practical solutions to problems such as fleas and ticks, and creative suggestions for grooming a picture-perfect dog.

Offers parents simple, research-based activities rooted in attachment theory that foster playful, calming, and communicative interactions with their babies, helping strengthen bonds, soothe fussy moments, and enhance language development through enjoyable shared experiences.

A practical and empowering personal finance title for women of all ages from the founder of Ladies Finance Club, Molly Benjamin. Money matters can seem overwhelming but Girls Just Wanna Have Funds provides invaluable insight that makes managing your finances less complicated, more intuitive, supe...

In 1974, the homeless Miss Shepherd moved her broken down van into Alan Bennett's garden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. And Bennett, despite inviting her in the first place, was a reluctant landlord. And yet she lived there for fifteen years. Th...

The Great Bookie Robbery of 1976 is one of the most notorious armed robberies Australia has ever known. It is also one of the most mysterious in recent history, with official facts blurred together with theory and wild rumours. Just how many millions of dollars was stolen on the day? And what bec...

"This memoir from the son of notorious gunman and career criminal Ray Chuck Bennett is more than a recitation of one's lilfetime. It is the journey of a man carrying a dark secret, unknown even to himself. Mirrors of death is a tribute to the friends and family of Mark Lee Bennett that lost their...

Few Australians realise that of the 62,000 Anzac soldiers who died in the Great War, over one-third are still listed as 'missing'. With no marked graves, the only reminders of their sacrifice are the many names inscribed on ageing war memorials around the world. The Nameless Names lays bare the e...

In this deeply insightful and intimate work, Daylight describes how her reading has nourished her life, and how life has informed her reading. In both, she shows us that it's the small points of connection -- the details -- that really matter: what we notice when someone close to us dies, when we...

This is the true story of Australia's worst convicted female serial killer, Kathleen Folbigg. Kathleen's children, Caleb, Patrick, Sarah and Laura Folbigg, died one by one over a 10-year period in similar circumstances - suddenly, unexpectedly and while sleeping. Each time, she raised the alarm t...

One out of every five Harvard graduates has lined up to hear Tal Ben-Shahar's lectures on that ever-elusive subject: happiness. Grounded in the revolutionary "positive psychology" movement, Ben-Shahar combines scientific studies, scholarly research, self-help advice, and spiritual enlightenment. ...