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Sasha Sarago
'I laughed, shed tears and felt those goosebumps when you know your soul is being spoken to and nourished.' Chelsea Watego
'If you've ever dimmed your light, hated how you…
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Kris Kneen
Fat Girl Dancing is a frank, beautiful and triumphant ode to self-respect from one of Australia's most original and acclaimed writers.
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Helen Ennis
Biography of leading Australian modernist photographer Olive Cotton, covering her life through childhood, early marriage to fellow photographer Max Dupain and her successful commercial work of the 1930s to her…
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Behrouz Boochani
Written in secrecy on a contraband mobile phone from Manus detention centre by journalist Behrouz Boochani, No Friend but the Mountains became the bestselling, award-winning book of 2018.
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Amy Thunig
The most inspirational and important memoir of 2022
Jarvis Cocker
The funny, revealing, surprising and highly original memoir from Jarvis Cocker
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Sabine Cotte
Mirka Mora features a rich insight into the intellectual life and art practice of one of Australia’s most versatile, creative and prolific modern artists.
Rob Wilkins
At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on his finest story yet - his own.
Anna Spargo-Ryan
A memoir about anxiety, our minds, and optimism in spite of it all
Monica Potts
An unforgettable story of friendship and lost promise in 21st-century America
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Michelle Obama
The powerful, insightful follow-up to the critically acclaimed, multi-million #1 bestselling memoir Becoming
Alan Rickman, Alan Taylor (ed.)
Alan Rickman was one of the world-class actors of his generation, as well as a tireless political activist, an avid traveller and a devoted confidant and friend. Through his never-before-seen…
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Lisa Taddeo
Three Women is a record of unmet needs, unspoken thoughts, disappointments, hopes and unrelenting obsessions.
Evelyn Juers
The new book by prize-winning biographer Evelyn Juers, author of The House of Exile and The Recluse, portrays the life and background of a pioneering Australian dancer who died…
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Trent Dalton
Trent Dalton, Australia’s best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: ‘Can you please tell me a love story?
Patti Smith
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one…
Alison Bechdel
Meet the author’s father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family’s Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and…
Jeanette Winterson
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson’s first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette’s version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted…
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Kathryn Heyman
A raw, painfully honest, heartbreaking account of a young woman raising herself out of abuse and poverty to become her own hero.
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Yumiko Kadota
Emotional Female charts Kadota’s rugged journey through ambition and dedication to exploitation and eventual collapse - and beyond. Yumiko Kadota is a voice for her generation when it comes to…
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Dianne O'Brien
From a victim of the ‘stolen generations’ comes a remarkable memoir of abuse, survival - and ultimately hope.
Fiona Murphy
A vivid and essential memoir of deafness, disability and identity by Australian writer Fiona Murphy
Deborah Levy
Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy’s critically acclaimed ‘Living Autobiography
Clem Bastow
Clem Bastow grew up feeling like she’d missed a key memo on human behaviour. Then at age 36 she received a life-changing diagnosis: she was autistic.
Sarah Sentilles
A devastating memoir about motherhood, from the award-winning author of Draw Your Weapons
Kaya Wilson
When Kaya Wilson came out to his parents as transgender, a year after a near-death surfing accident and just weeks before his father’s death, he was met with a startling…
Lech Blaine
What is it like to survive a crash that kills your best friends, and how do you move on? From an exceptional debut writer comes a stunning memoir about grief…
Veronica Gorrie
The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within and beyond the Australian police force.
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The voices Australia should hear
Jack Charles
Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government’s White Australia Policy. The loneliness and…
Anna Wiener
‘Joan Didion at a startup’ Rebecca Solnit ‘Impossibly pleasurable’ Jia Tolentino ‘This is essential reading’ Stylist
Cathy Park Hong
A fearless work of creative non-fiction about racism in cultural pursuits by award-winning poet Cathy Park Hong.
Dr Robert Isaacs
Told with grace and strength, this memoir shares the inside story of a respected Elder and his drive to break down cultural barriers and improve the lives of his people.
Archie Roach
A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader.
Sarah Krasnostein
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife…
Long Litt Woon
One woman’s journey to overcome grief by delving into an overlooked wonder of nature.
Julie Kavanagh
Born on a train in Stalin’s Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet’s pop icon. Nureyev’s achievements and conquests became legendary: he rose out of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirov’s…
Maxine Beneba Clarke
‘Maxine Beneba Clarke is a powerful and fearless storyteller…Clarke is the read deal, and will, if we’re lucky, be an essential voice in world literature for years to come’ -…
Tara Westover
An extraordinary memoir about a woman’s discovery of education, its transformative power and the price she has to pay for it.
Bri Lee
A fiercely intelligent, heartbreakingly honest memoir and feminist call to arms in the tradition of Fight Like A Girl
Rick Morton
Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you’ve scraped together enough for the ticket. You have to build the whole bloody engine, with nothing but a…
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Judith Brett
Alfred Deakin-scholar, spiritualist, prime minister-was instrumental in creating modern Australia. In the first biography of Deakin in more than half a century, the acclaimed political historian Judith Brett deftly weaves…
Claire Tomalin
A memoir that follows Claire Tomalin through triumph and tragedy in about equal measure, from the disastrous marriage of her parents and the often difficult wartime childhood that followed, to…
William Finnegan
A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer
Anthony Bourdain
After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain decided to tell all - and he meant all.
Patricia Lockwood
The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed ‘The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas’ by The New York Times, was unusual in many respects. There was the location: an impoverished…
Maggie Nelson
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson’s _The Argonauts _is a genre-bending memoir, a work of ‘autotheory’ offering fresh…
Paul Kalanithi
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor…
