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Expertise you can check, told by people worth reading

Our non-fiction authors work at the intersection of storytelling, expertise and personal experience — clinicians, scientists and practitioners who have done the work before they wrote about it.

Dr Russ Harris

Dr Russ Harris

Physician & psychotherapist · MBBS

  • 1 million+ copies of The Happiness Trap sold worldwide, in over 30 languages
  • 80,000+ health professionals trained in ACT since 2005
  • Wrote the ACT protocol adopted by the World Health Organization for use in refugee camps

Also His WHO title Doing What Matters in Times of Stress is the most downloaded mental-health resource on the WHO website.

Books by Russ Harris
Karen Fischer

Karen Fischer

Nutritionist · BHSc

  • Award-winningThe Healthy Skin Diet won Best Health, Nutrition or Specific Diet Book at the Australian Food Media Awards
  • Seven books, including The Eczema Detox
  • 20 years in practice helping thousands of people heal chronic skin conditions

Also Founder of the eczema support network Eczema Life and the supplement company Skin Friend.

Books by Karen Fischer
Jared Cooney Horvath

Jared Cooney Horvath

Neuroscientist & educator · PhD, MEd

  • Research and lectures at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School and the University of Melbourne
  • Has taught at 50+ international schools
  • Director of the Science of Learning Group and LME Global

As featured in The New Yorker · The Economist · The Atlantic · The New York Times · Scientific American · WIRED · New Scientist

Books by Jared Cooney Horvath

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