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- 'Over the hills and far away' : the life of Beatrix Potter
- 10 Wilson Street
- 10 at 10 : the surprising childhoods of ten remarkable people
- 100 nasty women of history
- 100 philosophers : the wisdom of the world's great thinkers
- 100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world
- 101 awesome women who changed our world
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee & the invention of modern forensics
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 25 women who dared to go
- 365 real-life superheroes : they really exist!
- 50 people who messed up the world
- 50 queer music icons who changed the world : a celebration of LGBTQ+ legends
- A Saint a day : 365 true stories of faith and heroism
- A beautiful mind
- A brief history of the private life of Elizabeth II
- A certain idea of France : the life of Charles de Gaulle
- A different drummer : the escapades of a ten pound pom
- A dominant character : the radical science and restless politics of J.B.S. Haldane
- A football genius : the Peter Hudson story
- A free flame : Australian women writers and vocation in the twentieth century
- A hazardous life : Captain George Forsyth (1843-1894) : mariner & first Harbour Master for the Colony of Western Australia
- A history of Britain in 21 women : a personal selection
- A history of the world in 21 women : a personal selection
- A history of the world in 21 women : a personal selection
- A horse called Mighty
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A matriarch and the Murchison : Gussie's story : a family history, a personal perspective, set in the midwest of Western Australia
- A mind like mine
- A most clever girl : how Jane Austen discovered her voice
- A paper inheritance : the passionate literary lives of Leslie Rees and Coralie Clarke Rees
- A passion for poison
- A passion for poison : schoolboy, poisoner, serial killer
- A passion for silversmithing : Philip Noakes : gold and silversmith
- A picture book of Louis Braille
- A pirate's life for she : swashbuckling women through the ages
- A rose named peace : how Francis Meilland created a flower of hope for a world at war
- A scandal in Bohemia : the life and death of Mollie Dean
- A secret sisterhood : the hidden friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf
- A secret well kept : the untold story of Sir Vernon Kell, founder of MI5
- A serial killer's daughter : my story of faith, love, and overcoming
- A spanner in the works : the extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage
- A star on her door : the life and career of June Bronhill
- A stitch of time : the year a brain injury changed my language and life
- A week in September : a story of enduring love from the Burma Railway
- A week in September : a story of enduring love from the Burma Railway
- A wife's heart : the untold story of Bertha and Henry Lawson
- A woman like her : the short life of Qandeel Baloch
- A woman of force : the true story of Deborah Wallace, the cop known as the Gangbuster
- A woman of force : the true story of Deborah Wallace, the cop known as the Gangbuster
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of WWII's most dangerous spy, Virginia Hall
- AC/DC : for those about to rock
- ANZAC sniper
- Abel Tasman : mapping the southern lands
- Acute misfortune : the life and death of Adam Cullen
- Ada Lovelace
- Adam Gilchrist's Champions of cricket
- Adele
- Adventurers, pioneers and misfits : Australia's most amazing true life stories
- After
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : first lady of crime
- Agatha Christie close up : a radio investigation into The Queen of Crime
- Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agente Sonya : amante, madre, soldado y espía
- Agents of Empire : how E.L. Mitchell's photographs shaped Australia
- Agnetha Faltskog : the girl with the golden hair
- Ajay Rane : global crusader for women's health
- Alan Finkel : Australia's Chief Scientist : 2016-2020
- Albanese : telling it straight
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : relativity rock star
- Albert Einstein and Sir Arthur Eddington
- Albert Namatjira
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Alexandria : the quest for the lost city
- All hail the queen : twenty women who ruled
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the money in the world : the outrageous fortune and misfortunes of the heirs of J. Paul Getty
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Allan Cunningham
- Almost human : a biography of Julius the chimpanzee
- Amanda Gorman
- Amazing Australian women : twelve women who shaped history
- Amazing Australians in their flying machines
- Amazing activists who are changing our world
- Amazing artists and designers
- Amazing athletes
- Amazing women
- Amazing women : 101 lives to inspire you
- Amelia : my first Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart
- America, the band : an authorized biography
- American cipher : one soldier's nightmare in the Afghanistan war
- American princess : the love story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry
- American princess : the love story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry
- Amy : a life through the lens
- An East End farewell
- An awesome ride : through a father's eyes
- An uncommon hangman : the life and deaths of Robert 'Nosey Bob' Howard
- An unsung hero : Tom Crean - Antarctic survivor
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And in the end : the last days of the Beatles
- And the rest is yours : a story of love, loss and resilience
- Andy Warhol
- Andy Warhol was a hoarder : inside the minds of history's great personalities
- Angel of death
- Angel of death
- Animal scientist and activist Jane Goodall
- Anna : the biography
- Anne Boleyn : 500 years of lies
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : out of the shadows
- Antarctica's lost aviator
- Antarctica's lost aviator : the epic adventure to explore the last frontier on Earth
- Anthology of amazing women
- Anything but ordinary Addie : the true story of Adelaide Herrmann, queen of magic
- Anzac & aviator : the remarkable story of Sir Ross Smith and the 1919 England to Australia Air Race
- Anzac sons : mateship, bravery and sacrifice
- Apollo & Thelma : a true tall tale
- Appointment in Arezzo : a friendship with Muriel Spark
- April : a mother and father's heart-breaking story of the daughter they loved and lost
- Archie Jackson : cricket's tragic genius
- Arianna Huffington : media visionary and wellness evangelist
- Art is a tyrant : the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur
- Art is everywhere : a book about Andy Warhol
- Arthur & Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- Artists : their lives and works
- Ash Barty
- Astrid Lindgren
- Astronaut Mae Jemison
- At home with Muhammad Ali : a memoir of love, loss and forgiveness
- At the broken places : a mother and trans son pick up the pieces
- Aussie Aussie Aussie
- Aussie Aussie Aussie
- Aussie Aussie Aussie : questionable histories of great Australians
- Australia's last convicts : reprobates, rogues and recidivists
- Australia's sweetheart
- Australia's toughest sports people
- Australian lives : an intimate history
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Bad boy boogie : the true story of AC/DC legend Bon Scott
- Badass mums : 30 boundary breaking women getting $#*! done!
- Banjo
- Banjo
- Banks
- Banks
- Barney Greatrex : from Bomber Command to the French Resistance : the stirring story of an Australian hero
- Barty : arise, Queen of Oz
- Barty : power and glory
- Bastard behind the lines : the extraordinary story of Jock McLaren's escape from Sandakan and his guerrilla war against the Japanese
- Battle of Britain : the pilots and planes that made history
- Battle of brothers : William, Harry and the inside story of a family in tumult
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Because I was a girl : true stories for all ages
- Become a leader like Michelle Obama
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin : the making of the modern Labor Party: 1876 - 1921
- Bee Gees : how can you mend a broken heart
- Beethoven : a life in nine pieces
- Before Rupert : Keith Murdoch and the birth of a dynasty
- Before they were authors : famous writers as kids
- Behind dark eyes : the true story of Jon English
- Being Britney : pieces of a modern icon
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Being Wagner : the triumph of the will
- Bella and Chaim : the story of beauty and life
- Beneath the fig leaves : a memoir of food, family and Greece
- Beneath the tamarind tree : a story of courage, family, and the lost schoolgirls of Boko Haram
- Bert : the entertaining life of Australia's favourite TV star
- Beyoncegraphica : a graphic biography of Beyonce
- Beyond the outback : Gulf women of remote North West Queensland
- Beyond the sky : the passions of Millicent Bryant, aviator : the 'lost' life of Australia's first woman pilot
- Beyond the thirty-nine steps : a life of John Buchan
- Big sister, little sister, red sister : three women at the heart of twentieth-century China
- Bill Lawry : chasing a century
- Billie Eilish : the ultimate unofficial fanbook
- Billie Holiday : the musician & the myth
- Billie Jean King
- Biographic Monet
- Biographic van Gogh
- Blast off into space like Mae Jemison
- Blaxland, Lawson & Wentworth
- Blood on the rosary
- Blood, fire & gold : the story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici
- Bloody brilliant women : the pioneers, revolutionaries and geniuses your history teacher forgot to mention
- Blue ribbons, bitter bread : the life of Joice Nankivell Loch
- Bob Hawke : demons and destiny : the definitive biography
- Bob Hawke : the complete biography
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bodacious the shepherd cat : a charming tale of an extraordinary cat
- Bon : the last highway : the untold story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in black
- Boris Johnson : the gambler
- Born hungry : Julia Child becomes "the French Chef"
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to fly : the story of Captain Henry Butler
- Boss ladies of science
- Bourdain : in stories
- Bowie : my first David Bowie
- Bowie A to Z : the life of an icon from Aladdin Sane to Ziggy Stardust
- Boy on fire : the young Nick Cave
- Boy on fire : the young Nick Cave
- Brabham : the untold story of Formula One
- Brabham : the untold story of Formula One
- Breaker Morant : the epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet, murderer or hero?
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking through the clouds : the sometimes turbulent life of meteorologist Joanne Simpson
- Brett Whiteley : art, life and the other thing
- Bridges to the Kimberley
- Bright stars : great artists who died too young
- Brilliant women
- Bring it on home : Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin and beyond : the story of rock's greatest manager
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the internet
- Broken vows : Tony Blair : the tragedy of power
- Burke & Wills : the triumph and tragedy of Australia's most famous explorers
- Burke and Wills
- Bush doctors
- Buster : the military dog who saved a thousand lives
- Caligula : the mad Emperor of Rome
- Camp David : the autobiography
- Can you hear the sea? : my grandmother's story
- Can you hear the sea? : my grandmother's story
- Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era
- Captain Cook
- Captain Fantastic : Elton John's stellar trip through the '70s
- Captain Pat : cometh the hour, Cummins the man
- Captain Starlight : the strange but true story of a bushranger, imposter and murderer
- Cardinal : the rise and fall of George Pell
- Caroline Chisholm : an irresistible force
- Caroline's dilemma : a colonial inheritance saga
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carry a big stick : a funny, fearless life of friendship, laughter and MS
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Castaway : the extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858
- Cathy Freeman
- Cattlemen in pearls : celebrating women in agriculture
- Caught between two worlds
- Cecil Healy : a biography
- Change-makers : the pin-up book of pioneers, troublemakers and radicals
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin : Victorian mythmaker
- Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
- Charles Darwin and evolution
- Charles Dickens
- Charles Ulm : the untold story of one of Australia's greatest aviation pioneers
- Charles-Alexandre Lesueur : painter and naturalist : a forgotten treasure
- Charlotte Bronte : A fiery heart
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chess queens : the true story of a chess champion and the greatest female players of all time
- Child soldier : when boys and girls are used in war
- Children who changed the world
- China baby love
- China baby love
- Chinese whispers : in search of ivy : a gold rush story told by generations of an Australian-Chinese family
- Christian Dior : the illustrated world of a fashion master
- Churchill & son
- Churchill : an extraordinary life
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Claude Monet
- Cleopatra
- Climate rebels
- Clouds : a memoir
- Coco Chanel
- Coco Chanel : the illustrated world of a fashion icon
- Code breaker, spy hunter : how Elizebeth Friedman changed the course of two world wars
- Code name: Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Colombia es pasion! : the generation of racing cyclists who changed their nation and the Tour de France
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson put astronauts on the moon
- Courage and compassion : a stretcher-bearer's journey from no-man's land and beyond
- Creating Cuddlepie : the May Gibbs story
- Creswell Eastman : the man who saved a million brains
- Cricketers at war
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Cult artists : 50 cutting-edge creatives you need to know
- Cult filmmakers : 50 movie mavericks you need to know
- D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Daddy cool : finding my father, the singer who swapped Hollywood fame for home in Australia
- Damn lucky : one man's courage during the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history
- Daring to drive : a Saudi woman's awakening
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Dastardly dictators, rulers and other loony leaders
- David Bowie : a photographic memoir through the lens of Terry O'Neill
- David Morgan : an extraordinary life
- Debesa : the story of Frank and Katie Rodriguez
- Deep deception : the story of the spycop network, by the women who uncovered the shocking truth
- Diana : case solved : the definitive account that proves what really happened
- Diana : her true story in her own words
- Diana, William and Harry
- Dick Bruna
- Dig if you will the picture : funk, sex, god and genius in the music of Prince
- Discovering Charles Meere : art and allusion
- Doc : the life and times of Aussie rock legend Doc Neeson
- Dolly Parton
- Don Dunstan : the visionary politican who changed Australia
- Donald Horne : selected writings
- Dostoevsky in love : an intimate life
- Dream big : heroes who dared to be bold
- Dreaming the Beatles : the love story of one band and the whole world
- Dunera lives, Volume 1, A visual history
- Dunera lives, Volume 2, Profiles
- Dutch girl
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Duty nobly done : an extraordinary account of 11 family members in the Great War
- Dylan : the biography
- Eat & run : my unlikely journey to ultramarathon greatness
- Eco stories for those who dare to care
- Ed Sheeran : writing out loud
- Eddie Jones : rugby maverick
- Eddie Woo : superstar maths teacher
- Edison
- Edith Blake's war : the only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War
- Edith Blake's war : the only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War
- Eight seasons : our family's journey with childhood leukaemia
- El Jefe : the stalking of Chapo Guzman : the explosive true story of the rise and fall of the world's deadliest narco
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Electric blue
- Electric blue
- Elisabeth's lists : a family story
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth : the queen and the crown
- Elizabeth Macarthur : a life at the edge of the world
- Elizabeth Macarthur : a life at the edge of the world
- Elizabeth and Michael : the Queen of Hollywood and the King of Pop - a love story
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Ellis Rowan : a life in pictures
- Elton John : the biography
- Elton John : the biography
- Elton John : this one's for you : a life in music
- Elvis Presley
- Elvis in Vegas : how the King reinvented the Las Vegas show
- Elvis the legend : the authorized book from the Graceland archives
- Emma Johnston : marine biologist and TV presenter
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empress dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power and history's first global manhunt
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Enid : the scandalous life of a glamorous Australian who dazzled the world
- Environmentalist Rachel Carson
- Epic tales of triumph and adventure
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Shackleton
- Escape artist : the incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck
- Escape from the ghetto : the breathtaking story of the Jewish boy who ran away from the Nazis
- Esther : the extraordinary true story of the First Fleet girl who became first lady of the colony
- Ethics into action : learning from a tube of toothpaste
- Eureka! : 50 scientists who shaped human history
- Eve Langley and The Pea Pickers
- Everything I know about love
- Evita : the life of Eva Perón
- Evonne Goolagong
- Examined lives : twelve great thinkers and the search for wisdom, from Socrates to Nietzsche
- Explorers : amazing tales of the world's greatest adventurers
- Fab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- Fake : a startling true story of love in a world of liars, cheats, narcissists, fantasists and phonies
- Fantastic female adventurers : truly amazing tales of women exploring the world
- Fantastically great women artists and their stories
- Fantastically great women who changed the world
- Fantastically great women who made history
- Fantastically great women who saved the planet
- Fare thee well : the final chapter of the Grateful Dead's long, strange trip
- Fatal mission : the life and death of the crew of Naughty Nan 467 Sqn RAAF
- Father of lions : how one man defied ISIS and saved Mosul Zoo
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fear and loathing in Las Vegas : a savage journey to the heart of the American dream
- Ferdinand Magellan sails around the world
- Fidel Castro : in his own words
- Fierce girls
- Fight like a girl : 50 feminists who changed the world
- Finding Marjorie King : a daughter's journey to discover her mother's identity
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Fiona Wood : inventor of spray-on skin
- First man : the life of Neil A. Armstrong
- First to the top : Sir Edmund Hillary's amazing Everest adventure
- First women : the grace and power of America's modern First Ladies
- Flash Jim
- Florence Nightingale
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Flynn's outback angels, Volume 1, Casting the mantle
- For gallantry : Australians awarded the George Cross & the Cross of Valour
- For small creatures such as we : rituals for finding meaning in our unlikely world
- For valour : Australians awarded the Victoria Cross
- Forces of nature : the women who changed science
- Frances Burke : designer of modern textiles
- Frank Hurley : a photographer's life
- Freddie Mercury A to Z : the life of an icon, from Mary Austin to Zanzibar
- Freo groove : musicians of Fremantle
- Frida : the biography of Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo : artist and activist
- Friday on my mind : the life of George Young
- Friends & rivals : four great Australian writers : Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson
- From cradle to stage : stories from the mothers who rocked and raised rock stars
- Galileo Galilei
- Galileo and the science deniers
- Game changers : the unsung heroines of sports history
- Genghis Khan : the man who conquered the world
- Genius of Leonardo da Vinci : with quotations, some abridged, from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
- Genius physicist Albert Einstein
- Geoff Brock : the man who saved a city
- Geoffrey Blainey : writer, historian, controversialist </