Non-Fiction Books

This is a unique insider's account of how the world's best combat aircraft, best pilots, international big business, and 200,000 people are bought together for the world's biggest military airshow. Graham Hurley has been responsible for choreographing and coordinating the air displays that are the centrepiece of the event, including a simultaneous fly-past of aircraft from the 80-year history of the Royal Air Force, and an aerobatic display by the Red Arrows.

Estuary is an extremely candid account of the twilight years of author Graham Hurley’s parents, Peg and Stan. An only child, living apart from his mum and dad for most of his life, Graham and his wife Lin find themselves coping with situations beyond imagining as dementia and a series of strokes exact a savage price. “I wanted to share the journey all four of us made,” says Graham, “because it seemed then, as it seems now, so profoundly mad and so profoundly important. This may lie in wait for all of us, the ghosts behind the door we never want to open.”