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His Name Is George Floyd
Written by two award-winning reporters with unprecedented access, this is the only definitive biography of George Floyd.
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Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
A collection of topical essays from author and star of Queer Eye, Jonathan Van Ness.
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Homesickness
An extraordinary memoir that reflects on memory and finding your voice after decades of silence.
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Rattled
A nail-biting, unputdownable memoir that brings a confronting new perspective on the safety of women and the many ways they are silenced.
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Runaways
Two women. Two cultures. And a friendship that freed them both.
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The Palace Papers
The explosive inside story of the Royal Family over the last twenty years from Diana to now - from the bestselling author of The Diana Chronicles
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How to Be Between
In How to Be Between, Bastian Fox Phelan explores how something as seemingly trivial as facial hair can act as a catalyst for a never-ending series of questions about the self
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Brazen
A riveting, inspiring memoir of one woman's escape from an extreme religious sect and her extraordinary rise from housewife to shoe designer, to CEO and co-owner of the modelling agency Elite World Group.
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Scrubbed
The revealing, compelling memoir of one of Australia's foremost cardiothoracic surgeons, Dr Nikki Stamp.
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Unknown: A Refugee’s Story
A moving, confronting and ultimately uplifting story about a young girl's escape, with her family, from war-torn South Sudan to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, and then to Australia.
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Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis
A memoir of gender transition and recovery from addiction, a dance across genres, a ripping-up of the rulebook, Please Miss is unlike anything you've ever read before.
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Five Love Affairs and a Friendship
Scenes from the turbulent life of the rich, glamorous and beautiful Nancy Cunard
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This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music
A collection about the female experience in and of music by some of the most intelligent and famous writers of the moment
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My Tongue Is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood
The first biography of Gwen Harwood (1920-1995), one of Australia's most significant and distinctive poets.
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Managing Expectations: A Memoir
A book about how things not working out actually worked out in the end. Honest, funny, raw and brilliantly written: essays from Minnie Driver.
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Devil in a Coma
The COVID diaries of the alternative rock star and bestselling author of Sing Backwards and Weep
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Mothertongues
A genre-defying, collaborative marvel that brings the absurdity of motherhood to the page.
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker
From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker comes an unprecedented compilation of over 60 journals, drawing an intimate portrait of her development as an artist, human rights activist and intellectual...
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Easy Beauty
A groundbreaking memoir about disability from a Pulitzer-nominated writer and philosopher
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27 Letters to My Daughter
When death is dancing closer than you'd like, what becomes important? What do you need to tell your child? And how do you want to be remembered? A beautiful, tender, funny and poignant guide on how to really live, from a mother to...
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Stories I Might Regret Telling You
A memoir from internationally renowned singer Martha Wainwright.
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Ten Steps to Nanette
The memoir from Australia's much-loved comedian, Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show and self-described swan-song, Nanette, played to sold-out houses in Australia, the UK and the US. Its launch on Netflix, and subsequent Emmy and...
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Strangers on a Pier
From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and We, The Survivors comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage.
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Eat A Peach: A Chef’s Memoir
Its young chef-owner, David Chang, served ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused diners whose idea of ramen was instant noodles in Styrofoam cups.
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Apollo and Thelma: A True Tall Tale
A humorous and quintessentially Australian story, from broadcaster Jon Faine, a trusted and respected observer of Australian life
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Pharmacopoeia: A Dungeness Notebook
A beautiful, full-colour compendium of Derek Jarman's writing on nature, gardening and life in Dungeness - with a Foreword by Tilda Swinton
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Childless: A Story of Freedom and Longing
A compelling, personal and fearless examination of a life lived without children of one's own, from Melbourne writer, broadcaster and journalist Sian Prior.
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True Friends
A revealing and powerful memoir about the making and unmaking of friendships
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In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
An astonishing and brave memoir of life, love, and assisted death, from the author of White Houses.
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Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
An indispensable, intimate and stylish celebration of the institution of the gay bar, from the post-AIDS-crisis 1990s to today's fluid queer spaces.
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Am I Black Enough For You?: 10 Years On
The story of an urban-based high achieving Wiradyuri woman working to break down stereotypes and build bridges between black and white Australia.
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The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison
The extraordinary true story of Kylie Moore-Gilbert's fight to survive 804 days imprisoned in Iran.
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The Bookseller at the End of the World
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand.
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I Came All This Way to Meet You
A fierce, and funny memoir of how the New York Times-bestselling author embraced her creativity - and how it saved her.
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The Jane Austen Remedy
An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re-reading each of Jane Austen's novels.
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Elizabeth Macarthur’s Letters
Kate Grenville's collection of Elizabeth Macarthur's letters, the inspiration for her bestselling, award-winning novel A Room Made of Leaves
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Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales
A prize-winning author's memoir about a mother and son following the migration of grey whales to Alaska
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The Lonely Hunter: How Our Search for Love is Broken
The Lonely Hunter explores the rise of singledom, the realities of loneliness, and whether it is possible to live contentedly alone.
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Bob Hawke
The definitive full-life biography of Australia's 23rd prime minister; the only one that Hawke cooperated with after exiting the prime ministership.
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True North: A Memoir
An uplifting, heartfelt memoir about surviving life's upheavals - and how to live authentically
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We’ve Got This: Stories by Disabled Parents
The first major anthology by parents with disabilities
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My Accidental Career
Australia's leading biographer Brenda Niall, now in her nineties, turns the spotlight on her own story in this fascinating memoir of a remarkable life and career
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Diagnosis Normal
Combining brilliant storytelling with rigorous research, Diagnosis Normal is an incisive and darkly funny memoir from journalist turned academic Emma Jane.
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Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village
Luminous, illuminating - lose yourself in the lives and stories of a woodland village in Sweden, at the quiet edge of a turning world
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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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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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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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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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Why Karen Carpenter Matters
A radical, literary and intimate insight into one of the twentieth century's most vital vocalists.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story
An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist
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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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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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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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