Item category 1: NONFIC

"From Lane Moore, the critically acclaimed author of How to Be Alone, comes an intimate, yet wildly funny exploration of the frustrating, messy, and, at times, deeply joyful experience of learning how to make meaningful friendships as an adult. Part memoir, part self-help, You Will Find Your Peop...

Christina Applegate came of age on sets and stages, expected to be on time, with lines learned, ready for lights-camera-action. Performing began as a financial necessity and became an emotional escape from a tumultuous home life in the infamous Laurel Canyon scene of the 1970s and 80s. She first ...

Once a letter to a dear friend and quickly passed on from dad to dad, Ailsa Wild's warm and encouraging words of precious love and excitement have expanded into this book to be shared on the parenting journey. Becoming a father is a time of love and learning, and dads belong right in the middle o...

From Rhodes Scholar to union leader to political powerhouse: how Bobbie became Bob, Australia's iconic larrikin PM. The new biography from award-winning historian David Day sheds new light on the early years of a political legend. David Day's biography of the young Bob Hawke takes readers on a jo...

For half a century, the Murdoch media empire and its polarising patriarch have swept across the globe, shaking up markets and democracies in their wake. But how did it all start? In September 1953, 22-year-old Rupert Murdoch landed in Adelaide, South Australia. Fresh from Oxford with a radical re...

Young Writers Showcase 2018 contains a broad selection of highest-scoring major works presented by students in the English Extension 2 course for the 2018 HSC. This impressive anthology includes short stories, poems, critical responses and scripts. Authors' notes for each item capture a reflectio...

Young Writers Showcase 2019 contains a broad selection of highest-scoring major works presented by students in the English Extension 2 course for the 2019 HSC. This impressive anthology includes short stories, poems, critical responses and scripts. Authors' notes for each item capture a reflectio...

Young Writers Showcase 20 contains a broad selection of highest-scoring major works presented by students in the English Extension 2 course for the 2020 HSC. This impressive anthology includes short fiction, creative nonfiction, poems, critical responses, scripts and podcasts. Authors' notes for ...

Young Writers Showcase contains a broad selection of highest-scoring major works presented by students in the English Extension 2 course for the 2021 HSC. This impressive anthology includes short fiction, creative nonfiction, poems, critical responses, scripts and podcasts. Authors' notes for eac...

Every student who achieved great results in high school once stood where you are now. They had the same doubts and fears about how they'd perform throughout the year. Most students start out thinking that only 'gifted' individuals get good marks, but at some point, for those who succeed, somethin...