Australian biography & memoir 2017
Paris Dreaming
How the City of Light gave her lessons in life: an Australian beauty journalist shares her obsession with Paris - the city that has been her guide through a lifelong journey of self-discovery.Katrina Lawrence first...
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The General
This is the official autobiography of one of the AFL's most respected and celebrated players, and one of the greatest leaders the sport has ever seen. Football books don't come much bigger than this.
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Unbreakable
This is a story of Jelena Dokic's survival. How she survived as a refugee, twice. How she survived on the tennis court to become world No. 4. But, most importantly, how she survived her father, Damir Dokic, the tennis dad from...
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The Footy Lady
No tragedy, no challenge, has proved too hard for Susan Alberti. The woman from the working-class suburbs has battled boardrooms, courts, lymphoma and adult diabetes; and was one of the driving forces behind the AFL's move into...
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Adventurous Spirit
At 41 - with two teenagers and a contentedly unadventurous life - Heather Hawkins made a doctor's appointment. Diagnosed with stage one ovarian cancer, within nine days she had surgery to remove an 18cm tumour, and a full...
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Labor of Love
People view politicians and politics with suspicion, if not downright hostility. But the decisions made in our parliaments affect everyday life. They also affect our future. So, politics matters. Deciding whether to get involved...
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Tracker
Winner of the Stella Prize 2018Miles Franklin-winning author Alexis Wright has crafted a memoir in story form of the charismatic Indigenous leader Tracker Tilmouth, and an epic portrait of a important...
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Try Hard: Tales from the Life of a Needy Overachiever (Extra Sass Edition)
A hilarious, heartfelt memoir from one of Australia's most adored performers.
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The Best Film I Never Made: And Other Stories about a Life in the Arts
This entertaining collection of pieces from the acclaimed director of Breaker Morant, Driving Miss Daisy and Mao's Last Dancer features memoirs, brief lives and revealing accounts of the film world.Alongside unsung...
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Can You Hear the Sea?: My Grandmother’s Story
An insightful and moving story of life in nineteenth and early twentieth century Australia, from one of the country's most celebrated biographers.
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Voyage of the Southern Sun: An Amazing Solo Journey Around the World
University dropout Michael Smith built a multimillion-dollar business fitting out movie theatres around the world, before restoring Melbourne's Sun Theatre and becoming one of the country's last independent cinema operators.
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Not for the Faint-hearted
Ten years after Kevin 07, Kevin Rudd gives the first volume of his memoir of political survival and public service.
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The Art of Disappearing
A memoir about surviving a childhood navigating around a violent and abusive father, and how the past influenced the author's professional life and personal relationships.
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The Things That Make Us: Life, Loss and Football
From number one pick in the 2000 AFL draft, to six-time winner of St Kilda's best and fairest award, to five-time All Australian, to captaining his club for a record 220 games, to more than 330 games as a star of the AFL, Nick...
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The Trauma Cleaner
Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature 2018Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Writing for Non-fiction 2018Winner of the Dobbie Literary Award 2018<br...
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Working Class Man
In this hugely anticipated sequel to his critically acclaimed bestseller, Working Class Boy, Jimmy picks up the story of his life as he leaves Adelaide in the back of an old truck with a then unknown band called Cold Chisel.
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Danger Music
From the former ABC Classic FM classicist comes a remarkable story about the power of music and courage to be one's self
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The First Casualty
Extremely timely, enlightening and passionate, The First Casualty is foreign correspondent Peter Greste's first-hand account of how the war on journalism has spread from the battlefields of the Middle East to the governments of...
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Incorrigible Optimist
A colourful and central figure in Australian politics for two decades, Gareth Evans has also been applauded worldwide for his contributions to conflict resolution, genocide prevention and curbing weapons of mass destruction. In...
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Caroline Chisholm: An Irresistible Force - How Caroline Chisholm Helped Shape a Nation
A fresh, spirited and engaging biography of a fascinating and influential woman who was absolutely instrumental in shaping modern Australia - but whose influence and importance has largely been forgotten.Caroline...
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Mr Showbiz
Australian entrepreneur, Robert Stigwood was the first media mogul in Britain to be dubbed 'Mr Showbiz". After an extraordinarily large life he died 4 January 2016. This is his story - warts and all.
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Work Shy: My Life as a Bludge
In his inimitable style, Graney veers from a feckless childhood in blue-collar South Australia, to the punk rock scene of 1980s London, and beer-soaked nights touring Australia where he worked very hard at not working at all.<br...
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Ways to Come Home
Shortlisted for the 2017 Finch Memoir Prize, Ways to Come Home is a powerful memoir about the need to know who we really are, and what it means to find our way back home.
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The Museum of Words
In late 2015, Georgia Blain was diagnosed with a tumour sitting right in the language centre of her brain. Prior to this, Georgia's only warning had been a niggling sense that her speech was slightly awry. She ignored it, and on a...
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Escape Artist: The Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck
The never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck. In August 1941, an eighteen-year-old Australian soldier made his.....
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The Mouth that Roared
Award-winning writer, Robert Hillman, has collaborated with one of Australia's best-known youth outreach workers and social campaigners, to bring his story to the public in that wonderful storytelling style that Robert and Les...
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Shackled
In 2013, Australian earth scientist Chris Turney led an ambitious expedition to Antarctica. It promised so much - discovery, history, adventure - but came with great risk. The story of Turney's ship, the Shokalskiy, and the plight...
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Live, Lead, Learn: My Stories of Life and Leadership
Inspiring, practical, generous and optimistic, one of our finest communicators and most successful businesswomen shares what she's learned about leadership, the culture of the workplace and the vital importance of living a whole...
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One Halal of a Story
As in life, Sam Dastyari's memoir is unexpected and unorthodox. This is the man who introduced Pauline Hanson to the halal snack pack and accountability to big banks. One Halal of a Story is a no-holds-barred look at the good and...
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Baby Lost: A Story of Grief and Hope
What happens when a death occurs within your body, but you survive? In Hannah's struggle to make sense of the personal and legal aftermath, she had to find out what it means to mother a dead child and to renegotiate her own...
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Tex
The autobiography of Australian rock 'n' roll legend, Tex Perkins.
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Every Lie I’ve Ever Told
The original Anti-Cool Girl is back! Rosie Waterland took Australia by storm in 2015 with her critically acclaimed, bestselling memoir The Anti-Cool Girl, her irrepresible, blackly comic account of her...
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Thirty Days: A Journey to the End of Love
From the author of The Fiftieth Gate, Mark Raphael Baker's new book Thirty Days is a meditation on life, death, love and marriage, written with an honesty that bares the souls of two people who shared their lives.
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Tell it to the Dog: a memoir of sorts
Tell it to the Dog is an exquisitely written memoir that is at once playful, heartbreaking and affirming.
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No Way! Okay, Fine: A memoir of pop culture, feminism and feelings
No Way! Okay, Fine. is a memoir about pop culture, pop music, feminism and feelings from freelance journalist and editor Brodie Lancaster. Shortlisted for the Richell Prize 2015.
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Adult Fantasy
A wry and topical inquiry into how we respond when our cultural clock starts ticking.
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Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness
Cold-press juices, hot yoga, quitting sugar, Paleo, mindfulness . . . if you embrace these things you will be happy, you will be well - just ask Instagram. From celebrity vegan chefs to sleep gurus, there is no shortage of people...
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Woman of Substances: A Journey into Addiction and Treatment
Journalist Jenny Valentish investigates the female experience of drugs and alcohol, using her own story to light the way.
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The Weaver’s Son: Odyssey of an Australian Surgeon
Dr Donald Hossack is one of the Melbourne Medical School's most highly respected alumnus. The son of blue-collar Scottish immigrants, he overcame adversity and dyslexia on his journey to become a doctor, and went on to make a...
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Understory: A Life With Trees
A memoir about staying in one place, told through trees, by the award-winning author of MR WIGG, NEST and WHERE THE TREES WERE.
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Finding Nevo: How I Confused Everyone
Meet Nevo: girl, boy, he, she, him, her, they, them, daughter, son, teacher, student, friend, gay, bi, lesbian, trans, homo, Jew, dyke, masculine, feminine, androgynous, queer.
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My Lifelong Love Affair With The Sydney Swans
My Lifelong Love Affair with the Swans by Jan Courtin details a red and white adventure that began at the Lake Oval in South Melbourne some 67 years ago. Born into a Bloods family, Jan attended her first match in 1948, when she...
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Things That Helped: Essays
In this stunning collection, Jessica Friedmann navigates her journey through postpartum depression after the birth of her son. Drawing on critical theory, popular culture, and personal experience, her wide-ranging essays...
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After
Australia's bravest and most honest writer explores the devastating aftermath of her elderly mother's decision to end her own life. Nikki Gemmell's world changed forever in...
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Beyond The Rock: The Life of Joan Lindsay and the Mystery of Picnic At Hanging Rock
This is the story of one of Australia's most famous novels, and the author who kept its secrets until she died.
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My Way
A high-flying athlete who is grounded by remarkable selflessness, Moana Hope is an inspiration for women and girls everywhere. My Way is her story.
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A Wife’s Heart: The Untold Story of Bertha and Henry Lawson
An innovative, imaginative work of biography, examining Bertha and Henry Lawson's marriage through a modern lens.
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Dear Quentin
As Australia's first female Governor-General, Quentin Bryce wrote to those she had met and connected with as her role took her around Australia, receiving letters from every corner of the country. Generous, witty and always...
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Only: A Singular Memoir
Caroline Baum's fascinating and moving memoir about being an only child in a very unusual family.
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Woolloomooloo: A biography
It was no wonder I was glad to be down in Woolloomooloo. The Old Fitzroy reminded me of how Kings Cross used to be. Told in his vivid and entertaining style, Louis Nowra ...
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The Green Bell
The Green Bell is a lyrical and profoundly moving story about love and madness
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The Poison Principle
Intricate, elegant, and beautifully realised, The Poison Principle is a masterful book about family secrets and literary poisonings.
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The Helen 100
A hundred dates in less than a year. Will they heal her broken heart or make it worse? Brilliant, hilarious and excruciating confessions from bestselling writer and journalist Helen Razer.
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Martin Sharp: His Life and Times
The life of the charismatic, unconventional, unique and surprising Martin Sharp - pop artist and joint founder of the underground magazine Oz
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Lion: A Long Way Home
As a five-year-old in India, I got lost on a train. Twenty-five years later, I crossed the world to find my way back home.
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Yassmin’s Story
At 21, Yassmin found herself working on a remote Australian oil and gas rig; she was the only woman and certainly the only Sudanese-Egyptian-Australian background Muslim woman. With her hijab quickly christened a 'tea cosy' there...
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