Australian Biographies & Memoir 2014
What Days Are For: A Memoir
This is vintage Robert Dessaix. His often surprisingly funny recollections range over topics as eclectic as intimacy, travel, spirituality, enchantment, language and childhood, all woven through with a heightened sense of...
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Peacemongers
In his first major prose work since 2002's Broken Song, Barry Hill has written an epic - a travel book, a history book, a peace book. His odyssey begins with a pilgrimage to Bodhi Gaya in India, where the Buddha received...
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Kerry Stokes: the Boy from Nowhere
The compelling and inspirational story of the rags to riches life of Kerry Stokes, a remarkable Australian. Kerry Stokes is a remarkable Australian. Not because he is one of Australia's wealthiest and most powerful people, but...
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John Olsen: the landmark biography of an Australian great
Joint winner of the 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Non-Fiction This landmark biography by Darleen Bungey, the author of the celebrated biography of Arthur Boyd, graphically depicts the forces that drove John Olsen to...
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Maestro John Monash: Australia’s Greatest Citizen General
Who was the most innovative general of WW1? For Tim Fischer, the answer has to be Australia's 'Maestro' John Monash, a man who, for all the recognition he received in his lifetime and after, has arguably not been given his proper...
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Battarbee and Namatjira
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Bill: The Life of William Dobell: The Life of William Dobell
This is the story of one of Australia's greatest artists, William Dobell. It explores how ambition and talent took a working class boy a long way in the world, and how the reaction to one painting almost destroyed him. It's also a...
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Dame Maggie Scott: A Life In Dance
A wonderful celebration of the life of Dame Maggie Scott, recognizing her contribution to dance over the last 67 years.
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My Story
Here, in her own words, Julia Gillard reveals what life was really like as Australia's first female prime minister.
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The Dangerous Bride: A Memoir of Love, Gods and Geography
Lee Kofman, rebellious daughter of ultra-orthodox Jews, has always sought her own way. True to her Bohemian dream where love can coexist with sexual freedom, she decided to experiment with an open marriage... despite the fact that...
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A Bone of Fact
MONA's David Walsh is an enigma in the Australian art world. A Bone of Fact is his unconventional, absorbing and brilliantly surprising memoir.
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Dress, Memory: A Memoir of My Twenties in Dresses
A charming coming-of-age memoir in which every dress tells a story. Dress, Memory is about a decade in dresses. Perceptive and poignant, humorous and heartwarming, it's the story of growing up and growing into yourself. It's about...
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Margaret & Gough: The Love Story That Shaped a Nation
This is the compelling story of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, his wife Margaret and their 70-year relationship - personal and political, private and public. It is a story of how two extraordinary people, side by side, led...
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It’s Not You, Geography, It’s Me
From the author of the bestselling Get Well Soon! My (Un)Brilliant Career as a Nurse comes a hilarious - and brutally honest - memoir about mental illness and depression. For someone who hates exercise, Kristy Chambers is pretty...
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How to Get There
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Dick Hamer: The liberal Liberal
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Kevin Rudd: Twice Prime Minister
Beginning with Rudd's childhood in rural Queensland, examines the people, places and politics that shaped him into the leader he is today. A frank analysis of Kevin Rudd's leadership style and his government's first term in...
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Rules of Engagement: FOXTEL, football, News and wine: The secrets of a business builder and cultural maestro
From FOXTEL to News Corp, film to football, opera to business, Kim Williams is a builder of Australian institutions. He has worked with some of the very best in their fields - Rupert Murdoch, Kerry Packer, Kevin Sheedy, Gail Kelly...
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Where is Daniel?
On 7 December 2003 Daniel Morcombe disappeared on the Sunshine Coast, while waiting for a bus.
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David Syme: Man of the Age
This biography of David Sydme, a powerful man of many parts, seeks to go behind the legend and round out the story of his life - primarily as press 'baron' but also as theorist and author, financier, farmer, property developer...
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The Fights of My Life
The Fights of My Life is the story of a man who faces up to the power structures of politics, big business and the media. His latest target is the labour movement, arguing that the Labor Party and the trade unions must...
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Travelling Without Gods: A Chris Wallace-Crabbe Companion
Wide - ranging in theme and context, it explores the imaginative effects of his writing. A tribute to Chris on the occasion of this eightieth birthday, in many ways it suggests an alternative cultural history of Australia since...
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Biting Through: Five Years in Afghanistan
John Ratcliffe is a quiet man, not the type of person who stands out in a crowd or draws attention to himself. But scratch the surface and you will find a person who has lived anything but a normal life.
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Shy: A Memoir
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The Feel-Good Hit of the Year: A Memoir
Hilarious, compelling and sometimes heartbreaking, The Feel-Good Hit of the Year is a memoir about family, drugs and learning how to live with yourself, from a sharp and original new Australian voice.
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Cadence
In her provocative, intelligent, surprising and funny memoir Cadence, Emma cycles her way from England to Hong Kong with a violin she calls Aurelia strapped to her back. But it is also a journey through the keys, and the music...
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The Poet’s Wife
In the follow-up to her bestselling memoir, Dreamtime Alice, Mandy Sayer tells the story of the ten years she and Yusef Komunyakaa spent together, first as lovers, then as husband and wife.
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Sheila: The Australian Beauty Who Bewitched British Society
Born on a NSW sheep station, she wedded earls and barons, was feted by London and New York society, and when she died was a Russian princess.
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