Australian biography & memoir 2019
Paris or Die: A Memoir
Losing your heart in Paris can sometimes mean also losing your head.
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Able: Fully Updated Edition
The incredible life of an astonishing athlete and now disability advocate - fully updated to include Wimbledon and French Open wins and more
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Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography
To mark Bob Hawke's extraordinary life and legacy, this master work brings together the story of the man in full in a definitive hardback commemorative biography.
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When All Is Said and Done
Neale Daniher sat down to pen a letter to the grandchildren he'll never get to know. And then he kept on writing ... When All is Said & Done is a book of stories and wisdom from a man who has always held his beliefs to the...
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A Sceptic’s Search for Meaning
Mike Willesee's spellbinding spiritual quest around the world and deep into the heart of life's ultimate riddle.
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James Cook: The Story Behind the Man Who Mapped the World
Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook?
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The Memory Pool: Australian Stories of Summer, Sun and Swimming
Smell the chlorine, taste the hot chips and feel the burning concrete underfoot as you read these stories of Australian childhoods at the pool.
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Fighting for Hakeem
How people power challenged two monarchies, a military junta, and the world's largest sporting institutions ... and won
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Your Own Kind of Girl
Clare Bowditch has always had a knack for telling stories. Through her music and performing, this beloved Australian artist has touched hundreds of thousands of lives. But what of the stories she used to tell herself? That 'real...
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Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music
One of the most powerful and highly anticipated life stories to be told in Australian history. A breathtakingly powerful memoir by beloved Australian music legend Archie Roach - stolen child, musical and lyrical genius and the...
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Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume One, 1978-1987
The private diaries of one of Australia's greatest living writers, the much loved, fearless and fierce Helen Garner.
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Olive Cotton
A landmark biography of a singular and important Australian photographer, Olive Cotton, by an award-winning writer - beautifully written and deeply moving.
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The Shelf Life of Zora Cross
Australian poet and journalist Zora Cross caused a sensation in 1917 with her book Songs of Love and Life. Here was a young woman who looked like a Sunday school teacher, celebrating sexual passion in a provocative series of...
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Nobody’s Soldier: The Life of Andrii Antonenko
Andrii Antonenko was born in the Ukraine in 1922 shortly before the Communist purges of the Kulaks. He and his family were sent to work camps in the frozen steppes of the far North when he wasn't even a teenager. He escaped the...
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Penny Wong: Passion and Principle
A revelatory portrait of one of the most talented, poised and respected women in Australian politics, written by one of Australia's foremost biographers.
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Other People’s Houses
What seduced publishing trailblazer Hilary McPhee to an exotic writing project in Jordan? Curiosity, political engagement, mad bravery? McPhee's brutally honest memoir traverses wild terrain, from Italy to Amman.
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Gulpilil
From the bestselling author of Wednesdays with Bob comes an intimate portrait of Indigenous actor David Gulpilil.
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The Girls
A memoir of enormous power: of family, loss, and sexuality which recalls Kate Holden, Fiona Wright or Sarah Krasnostein.
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Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella
Jack Charles has worn many hats throughout his life: actor, cat burglar, musician, heroin addict, activist, even Senior Victorian Australian of the Year. But the title he's most proud to claim is that of Aboriginal Elder.
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Don Dunstan
The first major biography of Don Dunstan, one of the few state premiers to stride the national stage and make a lasting mark on Australian life.
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My Story: Schapelle Corby
An updated edition of the international bestseller, taking in Schapelle's nine years in prison in Bali and return to Australia.
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About a Girl
Rebekah Robertson's extraordinary personal story of raising her transgender child, Georgie Stone, who has become a voice not just for other transgender kids - but for an emerging generation.
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Mirka Mora: A Life Making Art
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.
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The Strong Man
A powerful story of life under fire and one man's journey back from the brink.
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Before I Forget: An Early Memoir
Before I Forget is the long-awaited memoir from Professor Geoffrey Blainey - Australia's most significant and popular historian - that tells the story of the first forty years of his life, from his childhood to his career as...
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Back on Track
A thought-provoking and heart-warming story of how one man (and his working dogs) is giving rural kids, on their last chance, a second chance.
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Something to Believe In
For Andrew Stafford, music was a way up and a way out. There was just one little problem: he couldn't play. Because those who can do and those who can't review, he carved out a niche writing about it instead.
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Songs
For over forty years, Don Walker's songwriting has captured what it is to be Australian. From Cold Chisel to his solo work, as well as many other writing collaborations, Walker's words are poetic, moving and incisive. This...
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The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory
A memoir of trauma, evil and survival that will break your heart and then show you how to rebuild it, from one of Australia's brightest young comedians.
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Split: True Stories of Leaving, Loss and New Beginnings
In this compelling anthology of personal essays, curated by award-winning author Lee Kofman, some of Australia's most beloved writers reveal, for the first time, powerful, occasionally funny and often heartbreaking stories of...
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Timeless On The Silk Road
After riding her motorcycle across Africa, Heather Ellis rides the fabled Silk Roads of antiquity from London to Hanoi.
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Alice to Prague
A bittersweet story of a search for identity, belonging and love, set in a time, a place and with a man that fill Tanya's life with contradictions.
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Little One
A powerful story about family and adoption, and the tensions and joys between the old world of Europe and the new world of Australia.
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Barefoot in the Bindis
Filled with drama and hilarity, joy and back-breaking toil, BAREFOOT IN THE BINDIS portrays a childhood spent in the bush, and is a sensational picture of Australia past.
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The Wasp and the Orchid
Award-winning zoologist and author Danielle Clode presents the life of one of Australia's foremost female naturalists, Edith Coleman, and the story of the quest to recover her from the footnotes of history - now available in trade...
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Stranger Country
What happens when a 32-year-old first-generation Australian woman decides to chuck in a dream job, pack a sleeping bag and tent, and hit the long, dusty road for six months? Thirty-thousand kilometres later, Monica Tan has the...
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Rapture’s Roadway
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The Heart’s Ground: A Life Of Anne Elder
This finely wrought biography is rich in historical detail as it draws on four generations of letters and diaries and more recently on critical commentary and recollections.
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Blood on the Rosary
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Growing Up Muslim in Australia
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Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook
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Requiem with Yellow Butterflies: A Memoir
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Fridays with my Folks
Amal Awad's life changed when her father was diagnosed with kidney failure. It was a shock to see the impact it had on him, both physically and mentally, and the way the side effects trickled onto those around him. Work had always...
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Going Back
Munjed's new book is once more a journey, but this time in taking him across the world on a quest to save others rather than himself.
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Growing Up African in Australia
Welcome to African Australia. Compiled by award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke, with curatorial assistance from writers Ahmed Yussuf and Magan Magan, this anthology brings together the regions of Africa, and the African...
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