Biography & memoir from 2021

Lovers Dreamers Fighters
A beautiful and moving memoir about passion, creativity and fearlessness from one of Australia's true creatives, singer/songwriter Lo Carmen, inspired by the lives and careers of other remarkable Australian women - such as Renee...
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Found, Wanting
This is a book for anyone who has ever loved someone who has died. Or who has ever loved someone. Because grief is the language of love, after all.
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Missing
Beautifully written and affecting, this is the true story of a young man caught in a world he can't control and how he finds a way to survive
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Delia Akeley and the Monkey
By telling this story, Iain McCalman illuminates much about human-animal relations and the tyranny of gender inequality. He reinstates a twentieth century story of a dedicated amateur primatologist and her adopted Vervet monkey.
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Allegorizings
Published one year on from her death, at the age of ninety-four, Jan Morris' Allegorizings is the final despatch from one of the greatest chroniclers of the Twentieth Century.
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Lost & Found: A Memoir
Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer tells the story of losing her father and finding the love of her life in this profound meditation on love, grief and joy.
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Don’t Call Us Carnies: We are Showies and Damn Proud of It
While many Australian teenagers have dreamed of joining a travelling circus, Norma Brophy wanted to run away from it. In this vibrant, uproarious and poignant memoir, multi-talented showbiz matriarch Norma Brophy comes out of...
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Mala’s Cat
A moving Holocaust memoir about the unlikely friendship between a young Jewish girl and a stray cat and their survival against the odds
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Why Karen Carpenter Matters
A radical, literary and intimate insight into one of the twentieth century's most vital vocalists.
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Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir
A poetic and raw coming-of-age memoir in essays about blackness, masculinity, and addiction
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Bypass: The Story of a Road
A classic in its own right, this personal and public memoir by one of Australia's most observant and genial writers graces our bookshelves once again.
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These Precious Days
An irresistible collection of essays and memoir from the internationally bestselling, Women's Prize-winning author of The Dutch House
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Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays
Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longlisted The Blazing World.
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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty - his mother's family, the...
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Being Britney: Pieces of a Modern Icon
A timely and unique portrait of one of music's most talented, troubled and talked-about modern icons, re-examining the prolific career, publicised life and continued cultural relevance of pop princess Britney Spears.
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Growing Up in Australia
This special collection is the perfect introduction to Black Inc.'s definitive ‘Growing Up' series
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Renegades: Born in the USA
Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly-produced expansion of their ground-breaking...
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Solid Ivory
The irreverent, brilliant memoirs of the legendary filmmaker James Ivory.
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Girl, Transcending: Becoming the Woman I Was Born to Be
Real-world life lessons about acknowledging and celebrating all the things that make you unique, from TikTok sensation, model and LGBTQI+ advocate, AJ Clementine.
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Dante
A new biography of Dante in time for the 700th anniversary of his death.
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Down and Out in England and Italy
A wry, filthy, and unputdownable look at class and national identity today.
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Eruption: The Eddie Van Halen Story
Marking the first anniversary of Eddie Van Halen's sad early death, a searching, affectionate and in-depth look at the life and legends of this true musical virtuoso.
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Orwell’s Roses
Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world.
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Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life
A joyous and poignant book about the world of professional acting, the messiness of life and how every experience - good or bad - shapes who you are, from the New York Times bestselling author of Not My Father's Son.
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Seeking Asylum: Our Stories
The voices Australia should hear
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Theroux the Keyhole: Dispatches from a Grounded Documentary Maker
Step inside Louis' life like never before as he turns his critical eye on himself, his home, and family and tries to make sense of our weird and sometimes scary world
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William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story
An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist
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Beggars Belief: Stories from Gerald’s Bar
A collection of funny, poignant, insightful and just plain ludicrous stories from Gerald Diffey's life in kitchens and behind bars
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Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
An unforgettable coming of age story exploring the meaning of freedom - personal, collective, political - from an extraordinary new voice
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The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet
A legendary conservationist. A lifetime spent fighting for nature. An indispensable message of hope.
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Last Letter to a Reader
Final work by internationally acclaimed Australian author Gerald Murnane, reflecting on his career as a writer, and the fifteen books which have led critics to praise him as ‘a genius on the level of Beckett'.
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Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture
Miss Dior is about what a woman can be. Through the untold story of resistance hero, Catherine Dior, Picardie illuminates ideas of femininity, strength and beauty and the work of one of the world's most iconic designers.
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Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius
A spellbinding and unorthodox look into the life of Leonard Cohen, and the way his experiences with religion and spirituality produced one of the greatest musicians of our time.
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Manifesto
The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo
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The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World
A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, the father of science fiction, from one of Britain's best biographers
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Caught in the Act: A Memoir by Courtney Act
Caught in the Act is about our journey towards understanding gender, sexuality and identity. It's an often hilarious and at times heartbreaking memoir from a beloved drag and entertainment icon.
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Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love
The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public.
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A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries, 2003-2020
From bestselling author David Sedaris, the second volume of diaries - the source of his remarkable autobiographical stories.
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Pure Flame: On Mothers and Daughters
A revelatory enquiry into selfhood, freedom, mortality, storytelling, and what it means to be a mother's daughter
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Taste: The Sunday Times Bestseller
From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and irresistible memoir of life in and out of the kitchen
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Will: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography
The 'Event' Autobiography of the Year - a brave, inspiring and wildly entertaining memoir full of self-help lessons for readers, from one of the world's most charismatic and much-loved actors
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Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
The warm and winning story of opening a modern bookstore where there were none, Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller recounts Nadia Wassef's troubles and triumphs as a founder and manager of Cairo-based Diwan.
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Why Marianne Faithfull Matters
A remarkable feminist history and biography that features fragments from the five-decade career of an iconic artist.
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Love Stories
Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?'
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How We Love: Notes on a Life
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys.
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Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
The ground-breaking much-awaited debut by leading British star Michaela Coel. A personal and powerful book about the life-changing power of transparency.
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The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison
What happens when the prime minister views politics only as a game?
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How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers.
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Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography
The funny, frank and full autobiography of the nation's favourite comedian. 'It's the first time I've done this. Other people have written about me - or for me - but this time it's just my own life in my own words'
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A Bloody Good Rant: My Passions, Memories and Demons
Following a lifetime observing Australia and its people, Tom Keneally turns inwards to reflect on what has been important to him.
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Invention: A Life
The definitive autobiography of James Dyson, the UK's most successful businessman, revealing the secrets of his success and the inspiration behind his inventions
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Dog Days: A Year with Olive and Mabel
Now with more than 87 million views on YouTube, lockdown superstar Labradors Olive and Mabel are back with a second book about their meteoric year of fame.
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Currowan
Australia's worst bushfires, and how we live with fire in a climate-changed world
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The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Dave Grohl chronicles his life in music
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The Story Continues: Dustin Martin
An all new stunning book for Dusty's multitude of fans!
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Love is an Ex-Country
Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all these things. In this provocative memoir she explores how to claim joy in an unravelling and hostile world.
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The Dancer: A Biography for Philippa Cullen
The new book by prize-winning biographer Evelyn Juers, author of The House of Exile and The Recluse, portrays the life and background of a pioneering Australian dancer who died at the age of twenty-five in a remote town in India.
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A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes
The son of one of the greatest writers of our time - Nobel Prize winner and internationally bestselling icon Gabriel García Márquez - remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and...
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Tenement Kid: Rough Trade Book of the Year
The story, in his own words, of one of the most popular and influential British popstars of the past 30 years
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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the me too movement, comes a powerful and heartwarming memoir about empathy, hope and healing.
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The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power
A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business and politics
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Nellie: The Life and Loves of Dame Nellie Melba
The tumultuous life of Australia's most famous opera singer, Dame Nellie Melba.
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Cop: A Journalist Infiltrates the Police
The story of a French journalist who infiltrated the country's police force to reveal a culture of racism and violence in which officers act with impunity.
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Into the Rip
When Damien Cave brought his young family to Sydney to set up the New York Times' Australian Bureau, they encountered the local pursuits of Nippers and surfing - and a completely different approach to risk that changed the way...
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Every Deep-Drawn Breath
A world-renowned critical-care doctor offers hope for patients, their families, and the future of medicine in this timely, urgent, and compassionate work about the devastating and little-known physical and emotional effects of ICU...
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Whole Notes
Life Lessons Through Music
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Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears
Leaping into Waterfalls explores the rich, tumultuous life of Gillian Mears, one of Australia's most significant writers of the last forty years.
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The Woman They Could Not Silence
From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman whose incredible journey still resonates today.
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You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico
A redemptive, myth-shattering biography of one of the twentieth century's most underestimated creative and artistic forces.
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Home Truths: a Memoir
The revealing and candid memoir of Australia's legendary playwright and screenwriter
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This Much is True
From Blackadder to Call the Midwife, from PG Tips to Harry Potter, Miriam Margolyes is Britain's favourite national treasure - this is (at last) her extraordinary life story and it's well worth the wait.
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The Nazis Knew My Name
The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage, kindness and ingenuity.
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Funkytown
Funkytown is a love letter to adolescence, football, family and outer suburbia
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Ill Feelings: Stories of Unexplained Illness
A moving and defiant debut from a bold new voice in narrative nonfiction,
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My Friend Fox
An exquisite literary memoir about the the wonder, the humour, and the realities that exist beyond what is printed in a mental health file
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My Remarkable Journey
The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and live...
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Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
A raw exploration of identity that shatters boundaries and explodes the way we think about the idea of the self.
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Ten Thousand Aftershocks
A powerful, poetic and moving memoir of family, violence and estrangement, from a stunning new literary voice
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My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety
This memoir, told in gloriously comic vignettes, is an utterly joyful reflection on living - and sometimes thriving (sometimes not) - with anxiety.
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Daring to Fly
A story about conquering fear and finding joy ... a girl from country Queensland who found a way to see (and report on) trauma and horror, while still holding on to joy.
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All About Yves: Notes from a Transition
A timely and thought-provoking memoir about the trans experience.
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Operation Jungle
A gripping blend of memoir, true crime and corruption in the tropics.
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Dear Son: Letters and Reflections from First Nations Fathers and Sons
Dear Son shares heartfelt letters written by First Nations men about life, masculinity, love, culture and racism.
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Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship
A solitary woman's inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative power of her unusual friendship with a wild fox.
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Bad Boy Boogie
The life, death and rock'n'roll rollercoaster career of AC/DC frontman Bon Scott.
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Imaginative Possession: Learning to Live in the Antipodes
Wondering how migrants can fully settle on this ancient continent, Belinda Probert bought a property in the "country" to observe things more closely and learn to garden differently
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Below the Edge of Darkness
An exhilarating underwater exploration for readers wanting to recapture their sense of wonder
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Roots
Roots brings us thirty of the best stories chosen from more than 2000 entries in the inaugural SBS Emerging Writers' Competition. Voices from a new vein of emerging Australian literary talent.
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Power Play
An explosive memoir-meets-handbook from the bravest woman in modern Australian politics, helping empower women in or aspiring to leadership.
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Muddy People: A Memoir
A hilarious, heartwarming memoir of growing up and becoming oneself in an Egyptian Muslim family
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Oh, What a Lovely Century
For readers of Anne Glenconner's Lady in Waiting or William Boyd's Any Human Heart, here lies a through-the-keyhole story of love, sex, war, tragedy and adventure that traverses the breadth of the 20th Century.
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28: A Memoir of Football, Addiction, Art, Masculinity and Love
A brutally honest memoir that completely rethinks what it means to be a man.
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A Week in September
Through a precious cache of WWII letters, a story of war is revealed. But also, most movingly, a story of love, resilience and survival, from award-winning and bestselling writer, Peter Rees.
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The First Time I Thought I Was Dying
A dazzling collection of essays that unpacks our unruly bodies and minds and questions why we are taught to fear and punish them, from an exciting and award-winning new author
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The Keeper of Miracles
The memoir of a Holocaust survivor keeping alive the stories of his generation.
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Recipe for a Kinder Life
Recipe for a Kinder Life offers a guiding hand for anyone, from the city to the regions, who yearns to live more gently. It is about caring for land and reaping the bounty.
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Where We Swim
As Ingrid Horrocks takes swims in rivers, oceans and pools around the world, she considers her relationship with water and with the world around her
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Let’s Talk About Hard Things
Let's Talk About Hard Things is candid, unflinching, and entertaining in its quest to make everyone more comfortable with the uncomfortable realities of life.
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I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year
The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporters and authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Very Stable Genius
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Dissolve
This story of a writer finding her voice, struggling to have a room of her own, is the story of ALL women finding space for themselves against the 'very important men' in their lives. It's the story of every woman's life.
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Blessed: The Breakout Year of Rampaging Roy Slaven
Who is Rampaging Roy Slaven? John Doyle, the man who knows him best, delves into the early years of the master of midfield mayhem.
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The Mother Wound
A story of female resilience and the role of motherhood in the home and in the world, Amani Haydar uses her own strength to help other survivors find their voices.
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Last Shot
A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption in the high-stakes world of Michelin star kitchens.
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The Broken House: Growing up Under Hitler - The Lost Masterpiece
The major rediscovery of a forgotten masterpiece in the mould of Alone in Berlin and Stoner - the literary memoir of a youth in Nazi Germany.
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The Education of Young Donald Trilogy: Including Confessions of a New Boy and Portrait of an Optimist
A classic of Australian literature, The Education of Young Donald Trilogy combines Donald Horne's three autobiographies in one volume.
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The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen
From Stella Prize-shortlisted author Krissy Kneen comes an intergenerational study of family-a journey into memory, trauma and the lifelong secrets of a towering matriarch.
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You Lose Yourself You Reappear
An insightful biography of one of the world's greatest musicians, Bob Dylan, by bestselling author Paul Morley.
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Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud
A no-holds-barred memoir and outspoken manifesto from Senator, role model, and modern Australian hero Mehreen Faruqi.
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Fury
A raw, painfully honest, heartbreaking account of a young woman raising herself out of abuse and poverty to become her own hero.
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My Rock ‘n’ Roll Friend
An exploration of female friendship and women in music, from the iconic singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Another Planet and Bedsit Disco Queen
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Everything Harder Than Everything Else
It's part of human nature to test our limits. But what happens when this part comes to define us?
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Eating with My Mouth Open
Eating with My Mouth Open is food writing like you've never seen before: honest, brave, and exceptionally tasty. Lyrically written, Sam van Zweden offers a millennial response to classic food writers, revelling in body positivity...
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Black is the Body
In twelve intensely personal, interconnected essays, Emily Bernard sets out to tell stories from her life that enable her to talk about truth, race, family and relationships, and much more.
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A Paper Inheritance
When Dymphna Stella Rees - named after family friends Dymphna Cusack and Stella Miles Franklin - finds bundles of love letters buried in her parents' archive, she is intrigued by the discovery.
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My Year of Living Vulnerably
From Rick Morton, the author of the bestselling, critically acclaimed memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt comes a dazzlingly brilliant book about love, trauma and recovery, My Year of Living Vulnerably.
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Duchess Countess
The remarkable story of the 18th century aristocrat who scandalised the nation
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Brat: An 80’s Story
Fans of Patti Smith's Just Kids and Rob Lowe's Stories I Only Tell My Friends will love this beautifully written, entertaining and bracingly honest memoir by an actor, director and author who found his start as a 1980s Hollywood...
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The Believer
From award-winning author Sarah Krasnostein comes an exploration of the power of belief.
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Escape from Manus: The Untold True Story
The powerful account of how one man escaped the prison of Manus Island. A true story of bravery and resilience.
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Plunder
From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Poland - and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows
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The Code Breaker
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how the pioneering scientist Jennifer Doudna, along with her colleagues and rivals, launched a revolution that will allow us to cure...
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House of Kwa
Wild Swans meets Flesh Wounds in this riveting family saga spanning four generations
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You’ve Got To Be Kidding
The hilarious new take on country life by one of Australia's bestselling authors
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Rememberings
An intimate and revelatory memoir from the iconic, acclaimed singer-songwriter
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Lost Cat
Lost Cat begins with the story of how Gaitskill rescued a stray cat in Italy and brought him to live with her in the US, where he went missing. As she explores the unexpected trauma of her loss, Gaitskill describes how she came to...
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A History of My Brief Body
A dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, who mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.
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The Shape Of Sound
A vivid and essential memoir of deafness, disability and identity by Australian writer Fiona Murphy
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Shanghai Acrobat
For readers of Mao's Last Dancer comes the inspiring true story of a world-famous acrobat who escaped communist China to begin a new life in Australia.
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Late Bloomer: How an Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life
Clem Bastow grew up feeling like she'd missed a key memo on human behaviour. Then at age 36 she received a life-changing diagnosis: she was autistic.
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Promises to Keep
Democratic Senator Biden, one of the most recognizable figures in the U.S. government, presents an insiders look at life in the Senate, Washington politics, and American foreign policy.
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Daughter of the River Country
From a victim of the ‘stolen generations' comes a remarkable memoir of abuse, survival - and ultimately hope.
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Literary Lion Tamers
In this unique and entertaining blend of memoir, biography, and literary detective work, highly respected former fiction editor Craig Munro recreates the lives and careers of Australia's most renowned literary editors and...
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The Secret to Superhuman Strength
From the author of Fun Home, a profoundly affecting graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exercise, set against a hilarious chronicle of fitness fads in our times
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Aftershocks
An exceptional memoir about race, family and belonging for a moment when identity and division dominate our global politics
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The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals.
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Happy Endings
Happy Endings is a hilarious and compelling memoir from a bright and bold new Australian voice.
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Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz
A vividly rendered and empathetic exploration of how two of the greatest poets of the 20th century-Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton-became bitter rivals and, eventually, friends.
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Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967-75
Beeswing is the autobiography from world-renowned artist Richard Thompson, co-founder of the legendary folk rock group Fairport Convention.
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Real Estate: Living Autobiography 3
Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'
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My Life as a Villainess: Essays
The first essay collection from the acclaimed crime novelist, a candid portrait of a life lived unapologetically.
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Crying in H Mart
From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakast, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker piece that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up mixed-race, of Korean food, losing her Korean mother,...
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Fragments Of An Infinite Memory
A deeply informed, yet playful and ironic look at how the internet has changed human experience, memory, and our sense of self, and that belongs on the shelf with the best writings of Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard.
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The Ghost In The Garden: In Search of Darwin’s Lost Garden
The forgotten garden which inspired Charles Darwin becomes the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory, family, and the legacy of genius.
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Do Something for Nothing
Based on the grassroots movement and Netflix film hosted by Morgan Freeman, this is a beautiful, moving and inspiring collection of photographs capturing the stories behind those living on the streets across the globe.
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Lapsed
What happens when a good Catholic girl goes AWOL?
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The Chief Witness
A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes -- and the story of one woman's fight to survive.
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Lovers and Others
In this richly illustrated volume full of photographs from Lowenstein's personal archives documenting his long-standing friendships and reflecting the volume's heady mixture of accounting, art and wine.
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I Am a Girl from Africa
A powerful memoir about a girl from Africa whose near-death experience sparked a dream that changed the world.
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Yearbook
A collection of funny personal essays from Seth Rogen, one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys.
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Two Cultures, One Story
Told with grace and strength, this memoir shares the inside story of a respected Elder and his drive to break down cultural barriers and improve the lives of his people.
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Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours
A devastating memoir about motherhood, from the award-winning author of Draw Your Weapons
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For Now
In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work
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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
A genre-defying examination of identity, queerness and love in the vein of Maggie Nelson's Argonauts
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The Lost Cafe Schindler
A fascinating memoir in the vein of East West Street, The Lost Cafe Schindler offers a profound reflection on memory, truth, trauma and the importance of cake.
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Broken: In the Best Possible Way
Hilarious, heart-warming and honest, Broken is about living, surviving and thriving with anxiety. A must-have for fans of Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and David Sedaris.
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A Restless Hungry Feeling:The Double Life of Bob Dylan Vol. 1: 1941-1966
The definitive biography of one contemporary culture's most iconic and mysterious figures - musical revolutionary, Nobel Prize-winner, chart-topping recording artist
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As Beautiful As Any Other: A Memoir of My Body
When Kaya Wilson came out to his parents as transgender, a year after a near-death surfing accident and just weeks before his father's death, he was met with a startling family history of concealed queerness and shame.
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Sex, Lies and Question Time
Kate Ellis bursts the Canberra bubble to reveal what life is like for our female MPs, and why it's the best and worst job in the world.
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Raceless: Exploring race, identity and the truth about where I belong
A stunning family memoir by journalist Georgina Lawton, exploring race, identity and the devasting effect of long-held secrets on a happy family.
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A Promised Land
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. This is the first volume in an unmissable two-part memoir, which covers his early political career and his...
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Between Two Kingdoms
We all face moments that bring us to our knees- heartbreak, trauma, illness. When things don't go to plan this is the book to reach for - an inspirational memoir about what the struggle to survive teaches us about how to...
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Racism: Stories on Fear, Hate and Bigotry
Are we a nation of racists? Thirty-nine writers confront our darkest truths in this fearless collection of short stories, poems and essays from the margins of Australia.
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
The story of the Sackler Dynasty, Purdue Pharma, and their involvement in the opioid crisis that has created millions of addicts, even as it generated billions of dollars in profit.
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Heartsick
Based on three true stories, Heartsick is a compelling narrative nonfiction account of the many lows and occasional surprising highs of heartbreak
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In My Past Life I Was Cleopatra
A sceptical believer's journey through the new age.
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Cathy Goes to Canberra
Whenever anyone tells you that only the big parties or star candidates have a chance of winning a seat in federal parliament, just say 'Cathy McGowan'.
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Off the Charts
Stories full of infectious, hospital-grade humour and loads of heart, from Australia's favourite nurse.
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Turns Out, I’m Fine: How Not to Fall Apart
In her most candid and insightful book yet, Judith looks at her family and relationships to understand how despite being a feminist, her hopes and expectations have been shaped by men - including her work.
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Car Crash: A Memoir
What is it like to survive a crash that kills your best friends, and how do you move on? From an exceptional debut writer comes a stunning memoir about grief, perseverance and courage.
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Loud
What goes on tour stays on tour - unless you're the the first woman roadie in the world
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The Dead Are Arising
An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative.
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Bachar Houli: Faith, Football and Family
Writing for the first time, Houli explores the experiences and beliefs that sparked his trailblazing success as a Muslim footballer, and that established him as a leading voice within the AFL community for inclusion, understanding...
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Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years
The extraordinary life of one of the world's greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best.
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How We Live Now
From the beloved author of Insomniac City, a poignant and profound tribute in stories and images to a city amidst a pandemic.
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Sweet Dreams
Sweet Dreams charts the rise of the New Romantics, a scene that grew out of the remnants of the post-punk period and developed alongside club culture, ska, electronica, and goth.
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Consent
Already an international literary sensation, an intimate and powerful memoir of a young French teenage girl's relationship with a famous, much older male writer-a universal #MeToo story of power, manipulation, trauma, recovery,...
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No Document
No Document is an urgent, groundbreaking work of non-fiction that reimagines the boundaries that divide us - as people, nations and species - and asks how we can create forms of solidarity that endure.
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Belief
From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story.
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Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces
A major new biography published for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, offering a fresh, human portrayal
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Old Seems to be Other People
Sparkling with wit and wisdom, Old Seems to be Other People is a collection of essays by Lily Brett that explores the hilarity, challenges and poignancy of getting older. Stories are simultaneously hilarious, serious and utterly...
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The Beauty of Living Twice
She was one of the most renowned actresses in the world - until a massive stroke cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune...
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Debesa: The Story of Frank and Katie Rodriguez
Debesa is a sweeping social history of one family's struggles and triumphs set against the backdrop of the beauty of the West Kimberley.
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The Best of Me
A lavish gift edition of David Sedaris's best stories, spanning his spectacular bestselling career. Hand-picked by David himself, these are stories that will make you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time, from the funniest...
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Monsters
From award-winning writer and critic Alison Croggon, Monsters is a hybrid of memoir and essay that takes as its point of departure the painful breakdown of a relationship between two sisters.
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Son of the Brush: A memoir
Tim Olsen is the son of arguably Australia's greatest living artist, Dr John Olsen. Son of the Brush is his fascinating, candid memoir of what it was like to grow up in the shadow of artistic genius, with all its wonder,...
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World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
A celebration of the life and legacy of one of the most important food writers of all time - the inimitable Anthony Bourdain
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The Care Factor
A portrait of a nurse in Australia as she returns to the ICU and encounters the frontline of the pandemic crisis on many fronts.
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Dolly Parton, Songteller
Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics is a landmark celebration of the remarkable life and career of a country music and pop culture legend.
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Truths from an Unreliable Witness
Truths from an Unreliable Witness is a fiercely honest and wryly funny memoir of melancholy, love, marriage, the loss of love and marriage, homelessness, of hotel rooms strewn with empty mini-bar bottles of vodka, of waking from a...
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The Puzzle Solver
The Puzzle Solver follows Ronald Davis as he unravels the molecular trail within his own son's donated blood and genome, to begin to find answers about chronic fatigue syndrome. He confirms this is a biological disease and...
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Lioness
Saroo Brierley's journey home to a small village in India with the help of Google Earth became an internationally bestselling book and inspired the major motion picture Lion. But the story of how his adoptive mother, Sue, came...
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The Good Hand
Oil work is hard, manual and deadly. In this blistering memoir, Michael Flanagan Smith offers a vision of what life is like for the men doing the world's dirty work.
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Really Saying Something
In the early eighties, best friends Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward arrived at the YWCA in London, with their sights set on careers in journalism and the media... but that wasn't to be. London was the most vibrant and culturally...
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One Day I’ll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995
In this second volume of diaries from one of Australia's greatest writers, we see Garner in love; asking herself questions about relationships, individuality, morality and contentment.
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Women of a Certain Rage
This book is the result of what happened when Liz Byrski asked twenty Australian women from widely different backgrounds, races, beliefs and identities to take up the challenge of writing about rage.
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In the Eye of the Storm
Tells the remarkable story of AIDS volunteers who engaged in a struggle for life against death. For the first time, by focusing on individual life stories, this book explores the crucial role of the men and women who volunteered...
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The Soul of a Woman
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende - a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman.
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He.
Fragments and reflections from the life of a revered Australian writer
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With My Little Eye
With My Little Eye is a poignant and very funny account of a peculiar childhood in 1950s suburban Australia.
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The Heart and Other Monsters
A riveting, deeply personal exploration of the opioid crisis--an empathic memoir infused with hints of true crime.
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Not a Novel
Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Drawing from her 25 years of thinking and writing, the book plots a journey through the works and subjects that have inspired and influenced her.
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Walking With Ghosts
A highly anticipated memoir by Gabriel Byrne, award-winning actor. Walking with Ghosts is an exquisite portrait of an Irish childhood and a remarkable journey to Hollywood and Broadway success.
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Christmas Tales
'Tis the season to be jolly! One of Australia's favourite storytellers is back with a collection of stories about everyone's favourite family holiday.
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Essex Girls
Essex Girls are disreputable, disrespectful and disobedient. They speak out of turn, too loudly and too often, in an accent irritating to the ruling classes.Their bodies are hyper-sexualised and irredeemably vulgar. They are given...
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The Rock
Journalist Aaron Smith's new memoir holds up a unique mirror to Australia. What he sees is at once amazing, disturbing and revealing.
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Searching for Charlotte
The extraordinary, long-buried life story of Australia's earliest published children's author, Searching for Charlotte combines elements of biography, recreation of history and rediscovery of family history. It is a sometimes...
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Sad Mum Lady
Unapologetic and frank, Sad Mum Lady navigates the joys of motherhood in ways that will be familiar, hilarious and essential reading for parents and non-parents alike. Savage, true and deeply relatable - finally, a book that...
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Is This Anything?
The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades in comedy.
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Only Happiness Here
Elizabeth von Arnim is one of the early 20th century's most famous - and forgotten -authors. Her novels were ahead of their time in their representation of women and their pursuit of happiness.
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Love Marriage in Kabul
In 2006, Sanaz Fotouhi, a young woman in her twenties, travels to Afghanistan with her partner to make a film Seven years and four trips later their feature documentary Love Marriage in Kabul wins awards and the hearts of...
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Solitude & Company
An oral history biography of the legendary Latin American writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel GarcA a MArquez, brimming with atmosphere and insight from those that knew him.
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