Here for the first time is Murdoch in her own words, from her schoolgirl days to her last years. They also reveal her personal life, the subject of much speculation, in all its intriguing complexity: her emotional hunger and her...

Hes the sort of actor who can do Hamlet and Charlie's Angels in the same year. He shuns managers and agents and once agreed to voice the part of Garfield because he mistakenly believed it was a Coen brothers film.<br...

Steve Coogan was born and raised in Manchester in the 1960s. From an early age he entertained his family with impressions and was often told he should 'be on the telly. This book deals with his life and work.

Hilarious, heart-wrenching and brilliantly written account of a twenty something returning home to his large, eccentric, foul mouthed family to care for his beloved, dying father.

Island Home is a thought-provoking meditation on Australia and its landscape: how the land has profoundly shaped the nation, and how it has influenced the life and writing of im Winton.

An updated edition of the profoundly moving and inspiring memoir from Australia's domestic violence crusader, Rosie Batty. Rosie Batty knows pain no woman should have to suffer. Her son was killed by his father in a violent...

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...

Julia Watson thought her world was falling apart when she found out she had terminal cancer. But with humour and courage, Julia faces the greatest challenge of her life - and in the process becomes the person she'd always wanted...

You know those childhood memoirs that tell of the innocence of youth, of a gentle past when boys and girls were adorable and agreeable, respectful of their elders, and spoke only when spoken to? This isn't one of those. ...

An intimate and unique visual memoir by the multi-prizewinning Evie Wyld.

In this inspiring series of letters to his grandchildren, David Suzuki offers grandfatherly advice mixed with stories from his own remarkable life and explores what makes life meaningful. He challenges his grandchildren - and us -...

Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Beautifully written and full of unflinching truth, The Iceberg is a memoir which will leave an indelible mark on all who read it.

When Judy Sharp took her three-year-old son Tim to a paediatric specialist she was told that his autism was so severe he would never be able to communicate with her, talk or learn to live in a normal household. The advice at the...

Based on a true story, written in Belfast dialect, and set in the Catholic district of the Falls Road post World War II, this narrative tells the story of the feisty and fearless Isabelle McKitterick and champion Irish dancer Jack...

Tells the stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the generations raised under China's single-child policy. This book shows how these generations embody the hopes and fears of a great nation at a time of unprecedented...

An uplifting memoir of resilience and strength from ex-Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh.Anna Bligh knows something about hard knocks and high walls. She was raised by a single mother in the working class Gold Coast, a...

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...

In fundamentalist Iran, new life sometimes means certain death. When Leila comes to see Doctor Karimi, both are in danger. Born in a slum to a Muslim father and a Jewish mother, Kooshyar Karimi has transformed himself into a...

A true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice. It is at once an account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer's coming of age, a moving window into the lives of...

November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime?