Australian Biographies & Memoir 2015
Six Square Metres: Reflections From A Small Garden
Life lessons from the ground up.
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Plain-Speaking Jane
Jane Caro writes a fearless and frank memoir about career, family, feminism, mental illness, and what happens when they mix.
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Modern Love
Much has been written about the lives and art of Heide, but finally the remaining members of the inner circle have entrusted the truth to be told through this intimate biography of John and Sunday Reed. Equal parts romance and...
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Wendy Whiteley And The Secret Garden
For more than twenty years Wendy Whiteley has worked to create a public garden at the foot of her harbourside home in Sydney's Lavender Bay. This is the extraordinary story of how a determined, passionate and deeply creative woman...
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Henry and Banjo
The fascinating lives and turbulent times of Henry Lawson and Andrew 'Banjo' Paterson - the two men who wrote Australia's story.
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Flesh Wounds
A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family. Richard Glover's favourite dinner party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?'. It's a game he always...
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The Anti-Cool Girl
A dark, funny and subversive memoir about surviving the very worst that life can throw at you, Rosie Waterland's story of her coming of age is a blackly comic Australian memoir for our times and a clarion call for all anti-cool...
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Small Acts of Disappearance
Small Acts of Disappearance is a collection of ten essays that describes the authors affliction with an eating disorder which begins in high school, and escalates into life-threatening anorexia over the next ten years. Fiona...
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Not Just Black and White
Two remarkable women tell an inspirational story about the power of family and pursuing your dreams. Lesley Williams is forced to leave Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement and her family at a young age to work as a domestic servant....
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Everything is Teeth
An intimate and unique visual memoir by the multi-prizewinning Evie Wyld.
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Old Man’s Story: The Last Thoughts of Kakadu Elder Bill Neidjie
Right then,' he said with a sigh, and then turned to me with a grin. 'I tell you story, eh!' Then he said something which really floored me: 'I been waiting for you. You been waiting for me.' And so began Bill Neidjie's...
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We Are Here
Told through the bright and unflinching eyes of Cat Thao, a daughter born in a refugee camp, We Are Here is a memoir that begins in 1975 with her family's gripping exodus by foot out of post-war Vietnam - a dangerous journey,...
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My Story
I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three days of changing the nation.Three years and three days for you to judge.' On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the...
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Sidney Nolan: A Life
Digging through the myths around Australia's most famous artist, many of which he created himself as a masterful self - promoter, this book is the biography that Sidney Nolan deserves. In an authoritative, insightful and often...
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Shining: The Story of a Lucky Man
A remarkably warm-hearted, uplifting and inspiring story of one boy's survival against the odds. Abdi's world fell apart when he was only fifteen and Somalia's vicious civil war hit Mogadishu. Unable to find his family and...
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Good Muslim Boy
Good Muslim Boy is a hilarious and heartbreaking memoir of loss, love and family. It's about what we'll do to live up to expectations - and what we must do to live with ourselves.
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Lost Relations: Fortunes of my Family in Australia’s Golden Age
Historian Graeme Davison was never interested in family history. But when he discovered in his grandfather's notebook an account of the family's arrival in Melbourne in 1850 on the infamous ship Culloden, his interest was piqued.
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Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather
Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather is the long-awaited biography of one of Australia's most beloved authors.
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Fallen
'Call me Eve. It's the name I call myself when I think back to that time when I was a young wife - so very young, so very hungry. I picked the fruit and ate and drank until I was drunk with freedom and covered injuice...
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Bloodhound: Searching For My Father
A personal quest to uncover the truth about her parents and her birth, by the daughter of Holocaust survivors.
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Settling Day: A Memoir
The much-awaited sequel to the The Age Non-fiction Book of the Year winner Ten Hail MarysFollowing on from Ten Hail Marys, which chronicled her volatile upbringing and the fight to save her son from...
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Lion Attack!: I’m Trying To Be Honest And I Want You To KnowThat
From the inaugural co-winner of the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers comes a funny, energetic and original coming-of-age story that isn't quite like any other book you'll read this year.Oliver is a writer...
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We’re All Going To Die (Especially Me)
My late twenties have felt like a series of slow - motion epiphanies, each one sneaking up before slapping me in my newly acquired jowls. Everything I said I'd do 'by the time I'm thirty' as a glassy - eyed graduate is now in the...
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Bearing Witness: The Remarkable Life of Charles Bean, Australia’s Greatest War Correspondent
'Peter Rees has done what no one else has managed: read the vast Bean archive and get inside the head of the most influential figure in Australia's military history. Rees's superb book shows how Bean bore witness to Australia's...
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Memoirs Of An Anzac: A First-Hand Account By An Aif OfficerIn The FirstWorld War
Against his mother's wishes, John Charles Barrie joined the Australian army in 1909. Five years later, he was on his way to Egypt as an officer with the Australian Imperial Force. He survived the war to write his memoirs, which...
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Hello, Beautiful!: Scenes From A Life
I realise that, despite all the references to my longing to be a writer, two things are apparent.The first is that I don't actually do much writing; the second is that my teenage reflections display...
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Windsor’s Way
Born and bred in north - western New South Wales, Tony Windsor has held the balance of power in state and federal parliaments for nearly a third of his public life. He has always stood as an Independent, believing it was the only...
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Being There
After exploring the idea of home, where and what it is in A First Place, what does it mean to be a writer and where writing begins in The Writing Life, David Malouf moves on to words and music and art and...
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Passing Clouds: A Winemaker’s Journey
Electrician, Graeme Leith joined Melbourne's theatre collective at Carton's famously innovative Pram Factory Theatre and said 'let there be light'. And there was; Graham Blundell, Jack Hibberd, Max Gillies and many others produced...
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Becoming Westerly: The Transformation of Surfing Champion Peter Drouyn into Westerly Windina
'Peter was always looking for a princess, he wanted to find his princess. Unfortunately, the princess was me. I'm the princess that Peter always wanted but never met.' Westerly Windina'Westerly's affection for Peter comes in many...
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Under A Bilari Tree I Born
This is Alice's insightful and inspiring story - the story of a life that is remarkable and yet typical of Australia's strong country women.
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With Every Step: A Son’s Quest And A Father’s Promise
In late 2010 Andrew 'Cad' Cadigan quit his job, sold his home and set out to walk around Australia. He was doing it in honour of a mate, Chris Simpson, who had recently succumbed to a rare pre-leukaemia condition.
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Bradman’s War
Published to coincide with the 2013 Ashes Test series between England and Australia, this is the extraordinary story of how the 1948 Invincibles turned the cricket pitch into a battlefield.
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Before I Sleep: My Life Fighting Crime and Corruption
In the early 1970s, Queensland was a haven for crooks from both sides of the law. It was into this hothouse that Ray Whitrod was controversially appointed as police commissioner in 1970. Just six years later he resigned from the...
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