The Shack has been something of a phenomenon in Christian publishing. The book, written by William P. Young for his children, published by friends, and promoted by word of mouth, is topping best seller lists in the United States and Christian bookstores in Australia.

A beautiful, young widow sets out to Australia in this second installment of the life of Heléna, by Sydney author Jo-Anne Berthelsen.

Mahvish Rukhsana Khan whose parents migrated as doctors to the USA from Afghanistan in the 1970s is a Muslim lawyer who first became interested in Guantanamo when studying international law.

Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur and family man.

Unfinished Business: Paul Keating's interrupted revolution is more a book about economics than a political biography; although it is not devoid of biographical detail about Paul Keating.

Naomi Reed’s No Ordinary View is the sequel to 2008’s Australian Christian Book of the Year runner up My Seventh Monsoon.

There are at least two situations where it would be good to have Roy Williams by your side. The first is in a courtroom with him acting as your lawyer, the other as your guest at a dinner party.

Typo is a cautionary story of the collapse of one man's dream, told with personal honesty, insight and wry humour. The book is aptly subtitled ‘The last American typesetter or how I lost (overwritten on "made") four million dollars: An entrepreneur's education’.

Just to make things clear Gray’s Anatomy is not Grey’s Anatomy. The first (look for the ‘a’) is a medical text over 150 years old, still in print. The second (‘e’) is the TV soap featuring doctors in makeup. As is usual, take the book and skip the show.

After September 11, 2001, some Western intellectuals sought for the root causes of terrorism. Why did they hate us? Was it poverty? (as my local bishop pondered publicly – ignoring the privileged backgrounds of the hijackers). Was it Israel’s fault? – not minding that none of them was Palestinian either. What then?

As the book Pitcairn: Paradise Lost - Uncovering the dark secrets of a South Pacific fantasy paradise records, beginning in 2000, police descended on the British colony on Pitcairn to investigate disturbing reports of rape. It made news around the world.

The focus of this book is the series of interviews that David Frost conducted with Richard Nixon in 1977. What made them so significant was the way in which Nixon was brought to apologise for the first time for the wrongs that he had done.

Glen A Gerreyn's book Hope is a book written to motivate and empower people to "succeed" in life.

Not For Sale by David Batsone aims to give general information about the global slave trade. Batsone is professor of Ethics at San Francisco University and executive editor of Sojourners magazine.