Biography & Memoir 2013

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Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition

Mark Twain

An autobiography of Mark Twain that describes a chronology of his life, brief family biographies, and an excerpt from the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 - a controversial but…

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Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt

Saul Friedlander

A highly original and engaging appraisal of Kafka’s life, work, legacy, and thought

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Kafka: The Decisive Years

Reiner Stach

This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and…

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Perth

David Whish-Wilson

David Whish - Wilson’s Perth is a place of surprising beauty, of sand - swept peace and brilliant light, yet a place where the deeper historical currents are never too…

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On the Noodle Road

Lin-Liu Jen

On honeymoon, a food writer questions how had food and culture moved along the Silk Road, the ancient trade route linking Asia to Europe - and what could still be…

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It’s Cool to be Conscious

Harry O'Brien

The author is a philosopher at heart. There have been many obstacles in his personal life. In dealing with these, he has developed an appreciation that his story may inspire…

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Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.

Rob Delaney

Who is that hairy guy in the green Speedo?

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Autobiography

Morrissey

It has been said ‘Most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status that Morrissey has reached in his lifetime.

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Twiggy: The High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forrest

Burrell Andrew

Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest is the public face of Australia’s once-in-a-life time mining boom. A swashbuckling entrepreneur in the finest West Australian tradition, Twiggy took on mining giants BHP and Rio…

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Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family

Gabrielle Carey

Two literary lives defined by storytelling and secrets As her mother Joan lies dying, Gabrielle Carey writes a letter to Joan’s childhood friend, the reclusive novelist Randolph Stow. This letter…

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Carry a Big Stick: A funny, fearless life of friendship, laughter and MS

Tim Ferguson

The frank and fearless story of a man fighting MS with comedy.

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Damned if I do

Peter Corris,Philip Nitschke

This is the revealing, personal story of the man behind the controversial pro - euthanasia movement, told in his own words. Medical doctor, humanist, author and founder/director of Exit International…

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A Spy in the Archives

Sheila Fitzpatrick

In 1968 historian Sheila Fitzpatrick was ‘outed’ by the Russian newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya as all but a spy for Western intelligence. She was in Moscow at the time, working in…

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A History of Silence

Lloyd Jones

A History of Silence is a book about a country and a broken landscape. It’s about the devastation in Christchurch, after the 2011 earthquake. It’s about how easily we erase…

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Life in Ten Houses: Penguin Special

Sonya Hartnett

The internationally celebrated writer Sonya Hartnett is firmly Melburnian but has restlessly moved from suburb to suburb in her search for the ‘Last House’ - that special corner of the…

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Waging Peace: Reflections on Peace and War From an Unconventional Woman

Anne Deveson

One of Australia’s most highly regarded media people looks back on her life through the prism of an intellectual journey and personal memoir.

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Boomer and Me: A Memoir of Motherhood, and Asperger’S

Jo Case

An endearing story of a modern family and the hurdles they come across.

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Welcome To Your New Life

Anna Goldsworthy

When Anna Goldsworthy, pianist and perfectionist, falls pregnant with her first child, her excitement is tempered by the daunting journey ahead. In Welcome to Your New Life, she shares…

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Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir

Kristina Olsson

A powerful family memoir from the award-winning author of The China Garden Kristina Olsson’s mother lost her infant son, Peter, when he was snatched from her arms as she boarded…

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Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami

Sonali Deraniyagala

A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of learning to live with grief - that begins in Sri Lanka on Dec. 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband…

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Love with a Chance of Drowning

Torre DeRoche

Love can make a person do crazy things… A city girl with a morbid fear of deep water, Torre DeRoche is not someone you would ordinarily find adrift in the…

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Open Mike

Michael Sheahan

Since 2009 leading AFL journalist Mike Sheahan has interviewed some of Australian football’s biggest names on his Fox Sports program Open Mike. With his compassionate interview style, Sheahan manages to…

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The Exotic Booze Club: A filmmaker’s true adventures of volcanoes, cobras and a… beer elephant

Brian Armstrong

It was a club created in flagrant violation of his employer’s rules. A club for intrepid film-makers to share their hair-raising stories - of deadly snakes, acid lakes, enormous crocodiles…

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A Lasting Record

Stephen Downes

The strange tale of America’s best pianist and the Australian lipstick salesman who immortalised his genius.
A compelling and surprising tale of musical passion, tragedy and revival. In his prime…

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High Sobriety: my year without booze

Jill Stark

In re-examining her habits, Jill also explores Australia’s love affair with alcohol, meeting alcopop-swigging teens who drink to fit in, beer-swilling blokes in a sporting culture backed by booze, and…

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Selected Letters of William Styron

William Styron

Covering a career that spanned almost 60 years and many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this collection pulls back the curtain and provides readers with…

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