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He.
Fragments and reflections from the life of a revered Australian writer
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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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Emotional Female
Emotional Female charts Kadota's rugged journey through ambition and dedication to exploitation and eventual collapse - and beyond.
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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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The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death & Faith
From award-winning author Sarah Krasnostein comes an exploration of the power of belief.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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In My Past Life I Was Cleopatra
A sceptical believer's journey through the new age.
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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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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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You’ve Got To Be Kidding
The hilarious new take on country life by one of Australia's bestselling authors
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Joe Biden: American Dreamer
The new biography of President-elect Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos
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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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Banks
By award-winning bestselling writer Grantlee Kieza, Banks is a rich and rollicking biography of one of the most colourful and intriguing characters in the history of exploration.
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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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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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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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Belief
From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story.
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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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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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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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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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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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Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave
The first volume of the long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Soar
From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a story of courage to fight against the odds for your passion and succeed.
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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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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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