Writers @ Stanton

With deep insight and compassion, Stephanie offers a new way to look at anxiety that is accessible, supportive and immediately effective, and returns the life-changing power of choice and inner security to you—where they belong. 

Drawing on unpublished archival material and new reportage, Walter Marsh pieces together a  paper trail of succession, sedition, and power of how the Murdoch media empire swept across the globe shaking up markets and democracies.

In this compelling new novel, Kate Grenville uses family memories to imagine her way into the life of her grandmother, Dolly Maunder. This is the story of a woman who was able to make a life she could call her own through life’s obstacles.

Discover how a viral video led Mark Dapin to a story that went to the heart of the Australian underworld and shed light on a number of unsolved murders, in this revealing portrait of Australian crime from the 1960s to the 2010s.

From Australia’s leading investigative journalist Chris Masters, comes the shocking story of the case against Australia’s most highly decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.

 Colin Burgess shares the incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of their evacuation ship in 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra. 

The history books are full of heroes and villains … but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity in his new book, one idiot at a time. 

Discover a breathtakingly intimate view of one of the most important literary marriages of the twentieth century with Anna Funder in her new book, Wifedom, about George Orwell’s forgotten wife: Eileen O’Shaughnessy.

Discover the life of Henry James O’Farrell, before and after the would-be assassination of Queen Victoria’s son, Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, in this richly textured, lyrical reimagining from Simon Smith – relative to Henry himself. 

Science journalist and former radio host Lynne Malcolm takes us on a fascinating journey to discover how new scientific investigations and technologies are not only changing the way we understand the brain but also changing lives.