Penguin Books Australia

On 5 December 2001 New Zealand sporting and adventure hero Sir Peter Blake was killed by bandits at the mouth of the Amazon River. In this intimate account, Sir Peter's wife Pippa offers an intensely personal account of their life together.

Unpublished photographs from her personal albums, behind-the-scenes stories of Sir Peter's sailing adventures, and Pippa's own journal entries and artworks...

This special edition slipcased package contains Paul Kelly's much-anticipated memoir How To Make Gravy along with the companion  A-Z Recordings box set, which includes eight CDs of new live recordings of the songs that form the book's chapters, stripped back to their essentials as mesmerising solo or duo performances. The box set also features a 64-page booklet of colour photographs.

A powerful and compelling autobiography of Kelvin Cruickshank, psychic medium on the acclaimed Televison series Sensing Murder.

As a child, Kelvin saw, heard and felt spirits, but had no idea what it all meant.  He believed everybody could see and talk to ghosts.

One of pioneers of modern music in New Zealand, Ray Columbus began his career in 1959 at the tender age of 17. After more than four decades at the top of the New Zealand entertainment industry as a singer, songwriter, bandleader and TV star, and having hits with such classics as 'She's a Mod' and 'Till We Kissed', Ray is well and truly a household name.

David Hartnell grew up in a secure but unremarkable suburban life. His interest in things colourful and theatrical led him to championship rollerskating and cabaret. On his big OE, he landed a job in Australia and then in the heart of the London cosmetics industry, and eventually attended to the makeup needs of A-listers. He went on to New York and Los Angeles where his career took a new course. Returning...

'No longer a boy, not quite a man, often a prat . . .'

When Alan Davies was growing up he seemed to drive his family mad. 'What are we going to do with you?' they would ask – as if he might know the answer.

'I am English.  Tweedy.  Pukka.  Confident.  Establishment.  Self-assured.  In charge.  That is how people like to see me, be the truth never so at variance . . . In fact, I am chronically overmastered by a sense of failure, underachievement and a terrible knowledge that I have betrayed, abused or neglected the talents that nature bestowed upon me . . . Are you not...

The Rolling Stones have stood like a Colossus over the rock 'n' roll scene for almost five decades.  At the heart of the band is Keith Richards one of the greatest guitarists of his generation.  Famous for some of the greatest riffs of the last century, he is equally well known for his outrageous rock 'n' roll lifestyle.  The man who topped the Most Likely To Die chart for more than...

'Action-packed, magisterial . . . Caravaggio's life was every bit as bloody, sexy and attention-grabbing as the paintings themselves and Graham-Dixon is a man who knows the paintings better than almost any. Here is a life, an argument for a life, and, most satisfyingly of al, a three-dimensional reimagining of his lived world' 
Ian Kelly, The Times

The bestselling memoir by one of Australia's best-loved comedians

Judith Lucy has been cracking jokes about her parents for much of her career.   But when a birth relative's casual comment implied that she must despise them, Judith was shocked.   Sure, for years she had been talking about Ann and Tony Lucy like they were one-dimensional Irish nut bags who'd ruined her life, but who –...

'Captures the thrills of the early years and the madness of fame'  Big Issue

Stephen Davis – author of the legendary Hammer of the Gods – details the riveting story of a band that lifted itself from the gutters of Sunset Strip to become the biggest, baddest band on the planet.

Davis brilliantly captures the birth of Guns N' Roses raw power, which – despite rape charges, drug-induced...