Brainstorm

The image of the book cover for Brainstorm by Richard Scolyer with Garry Maddox includes the tagline ' A dedicated doctor. A devastating diagnosis. A chance for a medical revolution '. The image is a photo of Richard Scolyer, smiling, against a blue background, he's wearing a plain dark t-shirt.

Revealing his fight against a diagnosis of 'incurable' brain cancer, this is the remarkable story of 2024 co–Australian of the Year Richard Scolyer.

A dedicated doctor. A devastating diagnosis. A chance for a medical revolution.

Skin...Read more

Australian Gospel

The image of the book cover for Australian Gospel by Lech Blaine includes the tagline ' A Family Saga' and the quote 'One of the best writers of his generation' Benjamin Law. The image is a blurred, shiny background with two children, one in a blue t-shirt and shorts at the top, the other just in shorts. The one at the top has longish brown hair, the bottom, his mouth wide open. Both images are on a sideways angle, it looks like they are happy.

From one of Australia's most brilliant writers, a dark comedy about the tangled fates of two couples and the children trapped between them

Michael and Mary Shelley are Christian fanatics who loathe their fellow Australians – especially their 'foul language, reckless indulgence...Read more

Madame Brussels

The book cover of Madame Brussels by Barbara Minchinton with Philip Bentley has the tagline 'The life and times of Melbourne's most notorious woman' 

The image is of a woman in an elaborate period dress, leaning against the bottom of a stairway.

A must-read biography of an enigmatic personality who helped shape early Melbourne

Madame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in nineteenth-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today. But until now, little has been known about Caroline Hodgson, the...Read more

We Are the Stars

The book cover of We Are the Stars by Gina Chick has the subtitle 'A misfit's story of love, connection and the glorious power of letting go'. The image is of Gina's smiling beautiful face looking upwards to the right. There is a blurred tree in the background, Her hair is swept back and her shoulders slightly bare.

Gina Chick, the inaugural winner of Alone Australia, tells the story of her extraordinary, indomitable life in one of the most powerful, moving memoirs you will ever read.

From day one of her wildly unconventional...Read more

The Last Secret Agent

The book cover of The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour and Jude Dobson has the tagline 'My untold story of life as a spy behind Nazi enemy lines'

The cover includes the image of a young woman with a hairstyle that's typical of the 1940's, she's got dark hair and a hint of red lipstick on, she's looking up towards the left hand side of the book. In the background there's a green field with a treeline in the background.

This is the astounding true story of one of the last female special operations agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII.

Born in 1921, Pippa Latour became a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Trained by the...Read more

I Wanna Be Yours

The cover for John Cooper Clarke's I Wanna Be Yours, is an image of the author standing side on looking towards the right. He's got his hands in the pockets of his black suit and is looking slightly upwards. The author's name and book title are to the left against a matt grey background

Poet Laureate of Punk, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator.

At 5' 11' (8 stone, 32 inch chest, 27 inch waist), in trademark suit jacket, skin-tight drainpipes and dark glasses, with jet-black back-combed hair and mouth full of gold teeth, John...Read more