Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Basking in Beirut | 1991 | Buy |
| Nick Farr-Jones: the authorised biography | 1993 | Buy |
| Rugby Stories | 1994 | Buy |
| The Rugby War | 1996 | Buy |
| Beazley: A Biography | 1998 | Buy |
| FitzSimons On Rugby: Loose In The Tight Five | 1999 | Buy |
| Everyone and Phar Lap: Face to Face with the Best of Australian Sport | 1999 | Buy |
| Nancy Wake | 2001 | Buy |
| John Eales: The Biography | 2001 | Buy |
| Nene | 2002 | Buy |
| Kokoda | 2004 | Buy |
| Hitchhiking for Ugly People and Other Life Experiences | 2004 | Buy |
| Steve Waugh | 2004 | Buy |
| Tobruk | 2006 | Buy |
| Great Australian Sports Champions | 2006 | Buy |
| Little Theories of Life | 2007 | Buy |
| Nietzsche, Ethics and Education: An Account of Difference | 2008 | Buy |
| And Now for Some Light Relief…: The Genuinely Funny Joke Book | 2009 | Buy |
| How Hemlines Predict the Economy: Explanations, Rationalizations, and Theories on Everything | 2009 | Buy |
| Charles Kingsford Smith And Those Magnificent Men | 2009 | Buy |
| Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen | 2011 | Buy |
| Batavia | 2011 | Buy |
| Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution | 2012 | Buy |
| Ned Kelly: The Story of Australia’s Most Notorious Legend | 2013 | Buy |
| More Important than Life or Death | 2013 | Buy |
| Gallipoli | 2014 | Buy |
| Gotta Love This Country!: Great stories from around Australia to lift your heart, make you laugh and puff out your chest | 2015 | Buy |
| Fromelles and Pozières: In The Trenches Of Hell | 2015 | Buy |
| The Ballad of Les Darcy | 2015 | Buy |
| Kokoda: Teen Edition | 2016 | Buy |
| Victory at Villers-Bretonneux | 2016 | Buy |
| The Great Aussie Bloke Slim-Down: How an Over-50 Former Footballer Went From Fat to Fit . . . and Lost 45 Kilos | 2016 | Buy |
| Burke and Wills: The triumph and tragedy of Australia’s most famous explorers | 2017 | Buy |
| Seriously…You Have to Laugh: Great Yarns and Tall Tales From the Sporting Fields, Dressing Rooms and Commentary Boxes of Australia | 2018 | Buy |
| Monash’s Masterpiece | 2018 | Buy |
| The Catalpa Rescue | 2019 | Buy |
| Fair Go, Sport: Inspiring and Uplifting Tales of the Good Folks, Great Sportsmanship and Fair Play | 2020 | Buy |
| James Cook: the story of the man who mapped the world | 2020 | Buy |
| Breaker Morant | 2020 | Buy |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | 2020 | Buy |
| Straight to the Pool Room | 2021 | Buy |
| The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins | 2022 | Buy |
| The Opera House | 2022 | Buy |
| The Battle of Long Tan | 2023 | Buy |
| The Legend of Albert Jacka | 2025 | Buy |
Peter FitzSimons is one of Australia’s most popular non-fiction authors. A former rugby union player and newspaper columnist, he has written over 45 books about Australian history, military history, and sports biography since 1991.
His work brings major events from Australian and world history to a popular audience. From the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli to the mutiny on the Bounty, from Ned Kelly’s last stand to the building of the Sydney Opera House, FitzSimons combines deep research with a storytelling style that reads like a novel.
Below you will find all of Peter FitzSimons’s books in order.