Programmed memoir & biography

Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation (New Edition)
A new edition of seminal Tiddaist classic by Murri historian and activist Jackie Huggins, featuring timely and compelling speeches and essays.
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Black and Blue
The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within and beyond the Australian police force.
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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and acclaimed author of Negroland boldly and brilliantly fuses cultural analysis and memoir to probe race, class, family and art.
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Little Weirds
An essay collection from actor and stand-up comedian, Jenny Slate
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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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Jack of Hearts QX11594
An affectionate portrait and a moving account of courage in wartime which helps a reader understand the sacrifices made by our soldiers.
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After the Tampa
The heart-rending story of a child 'Tampa' refugee who grew up to become a Fulbright scholar, highlighting the plight and potential of refugees everywhere.
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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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Bedtime Story
From the best-selling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life and the enchantment of stories. With illustrations by Anna Walker.
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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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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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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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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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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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Abracadabra
Abracadabra is brimming with the thoughtful, witty and humorous observations for which Dessaix is known, and proves, once again, that his way with words is equally magical on the stage as it is on the page
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Speaking in Tongues
Tom Tilley made a career of telling other people's stories. Now he tells his own, of growing up in a Pentecostal church and what happened when he broke free ...
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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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The Most Important Job in the World
A powerful, compelling and forensic analysis of the role of motherhood in society today, and the competing forces that draw us towards and away from it.
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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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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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Holy Woman: A Divine Adventure
Louise Omer was a Pentecostal preacher and faithful wife. But when her marriage crumbled, so did her beliefs.
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Growing Up in Country Australia
Black Inc.'s bestselling Growing Up series goes to the country
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Raised by Wolves: A Memoir with Bite
Fierce, funny and razor-sharp, Raised by Wolves is a potent coming of age story from a savage new voice.
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big beautiful female theory
An anarchic and vital memoir unlike anything you've read before
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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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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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Putting the Rabbit in the Hat
Long-awaited memoir by the legendary star of Succession, Brian Cox.
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Good Pop, Bad Pop
The funny, revealing, surprising and highly original memoir from Jarvis Cocker
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The Boy in the Dress
The Boy in the Dress exhumes secrets of life on the home front during World War II, where tensions between soldiers boiled over, new expressions of sexuality flourished and the threat of invasion catapulted the status quo into...
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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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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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