Penguin Books Australia

A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11, journalist Megan Stack, a 25-year-old national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times , was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding warlords for information. From there, she travelled to war-ravaged Iraq and Lebanon and to other countries scarred by violence, including Israel, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen...

Everyone Loves You When You're Dead is a hilarious and revealing collection of celebrity interviews by Neil Strauss, the bestselling author of The Game and The Dirt .  Strauss has been a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine and the New York Times , giving him access to a wide variety of major celebrities.

In this book he:

The Corpse Walker is a collection of twenty-seven extraordinary interviews that opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women. 

We are what we eat, and in an era of global warming, food is the canary in the mine.  Food prices are rising, droughts and storms are affecting farmers and the global model of food production is under challenge.  Griffith REVIEW 27: Food Chain explores the dimension of this looming problem, and our complex relationship with the food we eat and the food we drool over.

Reversing his parents' immigrant path, a young writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new.

Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, 'We're all trying to go that way,' pointing to the rear. 'You, you're going this way?'

A generation after Pol Pot's regime killed one quarter of the nation's population, Cambodia shows every outward sign of having overcome its devastating history – the streets of Phnom Penh are paved; skyscrapers dot the skyline. But behind this façade lies a country still haunted by its years of terror.

They worked on the front lines—so they could write the headlines.

In 1943, a group of journalists—including a young correspondent named Walter Cronkite and cub reporter Andy Rooney—received an invitation to fly along on a bombing run over Germany. Of the sixty-six that took off the next day, only fifty-two made it back to England. A fellow survivor asked Cronkite if he'd thought of...

'Marvellously funny and horrifyingly mouth-watering'   Rolling Stone

'A phalanx of motorcycles came roaring over the hill from the west . . .  the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing. It was like Genghis Khan, Morgan's Raiders, the Wild One and the Rape of Nanking all at once.'

In September, 1964 a cavalcade of motorbikes ripped through the city of Monterey, California...

'The first celebrity chef - a kind of Anglo/French Jamie Oliver'   Peter May

The flamboyant Frenchman Alexis Soyer was the most renowned chef in Victorian England. This is his colourful account of his time at the front in the Crimean War, where he joined British troops in order to improve the quality of the food they were eating.

' Mia Culpa is often very funny, and sometimes very serious.'
DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Engaging stuff.'
SUNDAY AGE

Sometimes, when I meet someone new and I tell them I'm a writer, they ask  'What do you write about?' Tricky question. It's a lot like asking a woman who's just come home from a girls' dinner 'What did you talk about?'  The short answer? 

Everything!

'The best non-fiction writer in America'  Mario Puzo

Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the seemingly mundane taps into a fundamental human impulse: curiosity. From criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell takes everyday subjects and shows us surprising new ways of looking at them, and the world around us.