The Story of the Greatest Car in the World In 2005, Bugatti launched a car that has single-handedly redefined the notion of a ‘supercar’. It was called the Veyron, was reputed to cost £5 million to build and yet only £1m to buy. It quickly became the most talked about and indeed coveted car of all time. Written with the full co-operation of Bugatti. The Bugatti Veyron’s statistics are min... Read more

For the first time, Bernard, Darren, Ian, John and Jonathan look back and tell their whole story from childhood to their final farewell. Few could debate Powderfinger’s place as one of Australia’s most loved bands. 2010 saw the end of an era in Australian music, with Powderfinger playing their last concert together, so this November Hachette Australia will proudly publish FOOTPRINTS... Read more

Her Majesty Her majesty’s a pretty nice girl but she doesn’t have a lot to say. Her majesty’s a pretty nice girl but she changes from day to day. I wanna tell her that I love her a lot, but I gotta get a belly full of wine. Her majesty’s a pretty nice girl, someday I’m gonna make her mine. Oh yeah, someday I’m gonna make her mine. The Beatles. New book expand... Read more

The first official book by international superstar Lady Gaga. In this book of original, behind-the-scenes photographs, acclaimed photographer Terry Richardson follows superstar Lady Gaga during one year of her life, from Lollapalooza through the final show of her Monster Ball tour. During the time period he followed Gaga, Richardson took over 100,000 images and attended more than 30 Monster Bal... Read more

H.G. Nelson–arguably Australia’s foremost sports commentator, cultural critic and social observer–is a legend of the tinny transistor, the small screen and the mounting enclosure. But who is the man behind the mike? In this blisteringly honest memoir, H.G. takes us back to his Barossa Valley roots and shows readers how a very different Australia shaped the ankle-biter who became the boy w... Read more

P.D. James masterfully recreates the world of Pride and Prejudice, and combines it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly-crafted detective story. The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the Pemberley nursery, Elizabeth’s beloved sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live within seventeen miles, t... Read more

A blur of tumbling and chaotic events, the past few months have felt as if my career was flashing before my eyes. My book, too. During my years as the BBC’s South Asia correspondent, I was consumed by the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, getting as close to the tip of the spear as we possibly could as the Americans tried to track him down in the tribal badlands of the border area between Afghanistan a... Read more

Worth Flying For – Tuesday, 23 November 2010 A man walks into a mystery convention…. Okay, so you enjoy reading the Reacher novels. This fictional character is tall and heavy, I’m tall and heavy, he’s blonde with blue eyes, so am I, he was a cop of sorts for thirteen years and mustered out of the army as an officer, I’m still in the army as an officer and have been a cop... Read more

Available 31 October 2011 In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, there’s something of special value about a carefully composed letter. In homage to this most civilised of activities, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia’s finest dames of stage, screen and page have delivered missives on a series o... Read more

  LADY GAGA STYLE BIBLE is a rich, tantalizing, and fascinating guide dedicated to all aspects of Lady Gaga’s uncompromising, spellbinding and extraordinary visual artistry. The book is a vibrant photographic fantasy storybook: it is part fashion show pictorial, part retrospective homage—a complete guide to Monster Fashion, literally categorized from A to Z. Style subjects include &#... Read more