True stories: discovery, historical & scientific books

The Icelandic Adventures of Pike Ward is the entertaining and intrepid diary of a Devon fish merchant who became...  Read More >>

Samuel Gist was born in Bristol, orphaned and sent to Virginia in the early 18th century. He became wealthy there...  Read More >>

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New Yorker magazine staff writer Paige Williams delves into the surprisingly perilous world of fossil collectors...  Read More >>

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The Author analysis her challenges with mental health, being a university student and an independent young mum,...  Read More >>

Since the arrival of the First Fleet, thousands of prisoners have escaped from prison, police stations, courts,...  Read More >>

The story of Tom Crean who served on three of the major Antarctic expeditions of the early 20th century under the...  Read More >>

When radio inventor and spiritualist, Leslie Carter, meets the beautiful psychic healer, Lily Bancroft, he knows...  Read More >>

The dramatic and fascinating story of RMS CARPATHIA: rescue ship to RMS TITANIC; sunk by a German U-boat in WWI;...  Read More >>

Anna Funder's Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Stasiland is an Australian classic, the definitive account of tyranny...  Read More >>

The ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten, and the surprising...  Read More >>

A gripping, untold saga of love, betrayal and scandal at the height of the Roaring Twenties.  Read More >>

A gripping, untold saga of love, betrayal and scandal at the height of the Roaring Twenties.  Read More >>

Fr Martin J Magill comprehensively reserached the story of the Order of the Poor Clares and their time in Belfast...  Read More >>

“16 Weeks and Everything After...” uncovers the remarkable fact that over the last 50-60 years the establishment...  Read More >>

Albert Facey's story is the story of Australia. A true classic of Australian literature, Facey's simply penned story...  Read More >>

First published in 1952 and 1955, and called the greatest Canadian biography ever written, this edition includes...  Read More >>

An Economist book of the year. Fifty years ago, Christmas 1968, Man first orbited the Moon. This book tells the...  Read More >>

From the late-17th to the early 20th century, intrepid explorers from America and Europe risked (and sometimes lost)...  Read More >>

The second in the Cold Case Jury Collection, a unique series of true crime titles inviting the reader to deliver...  Read More >>

Illustrated by award-winning Parisian artist Pénélope Bagieu, humorous dialogue and uncommon true tales make Brazen...  Read More >>

The Interesting Narrative is a first-hand account of the horrors of slavery, published on the eve of the British...  Read More >>

In 1954, the 28-year-old David Attenborough seized the opportunity to travel the world in search of rare animals...  Read More >>

One of the best survival stories illustrated with Frank Hurley s superb expedition photographs  Read More >>