Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Biographies & True Stories

In the first volume of this new series, Alison Weir strips away centuries of romantic mythology and prejudice to reveal the lives of England's queens in the century after the Norman Conquest. Beginning with Matilda of Flanders, who supported William the Conqueror in his invasion of England in 106...

In this first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory th...

"I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment, that did not affect me." In the first instalment of Clive James's memoirs, we meet the young Clive, dressed in short trousers, and wrestling with the demands of school, various rela...

A memoir of boyhood by a man who was removed as a child - from country, from culture and language, family and from his mother. Filled with surprises, this is more than just a story of surviving. From hiding out from the Japanese in spring-fed caves in the deep Kimberley, to being let loose in a p...

This is the first of four books by Rick Fenny. It is the first era of four eras of his life punctuated by four red kelpie dogs. This story is about his life growing up, firstly on a small farm and orchard in the Hills region on the outskirts of Perth, and later, with his dog Pip, in Albany Wester...

"In All Creatures Great and Small, we meet the young Herriot as he takes up his calling and discovers that the realities of veterinary practice in rural Yorkshire are very different from the sterile setting of veterinary school." -- Amazon.com.

The American mafia has long held powerful sway over our collective cultural imagination. But how many of us truly understand how a clandestine Sicilian criminal organisation came to exert its influence over nearly every level of American society? In BORGATA: RISE OF EMPIRE, former mafia member Lo...

In this evocative, at-times heartbreaking memoir, Stolen Generations survivor Frank Byrne recounts his life-long search for his mother. His journey takes him across the Central and Western deserts of Australia to the Kimberley coast and back. Along the way Frank not only experiences his fair shar...

"All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to Herriot's first collection, All Creatures Great and Small, and picks up as Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants-both two- and four-legged...

Chris Stewart's Driving over lemons told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras an oddball region of Spain, south of Granada. Funny, insightful and real, the book became an international bestseller. A Parrot in the Pepper Tree, the sequel to Lemons, follows the lives of...