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Alice Carriere
Compared to Girl, Interrupted, this memoir and love story, one of the most notable literary debuts of 2023, tells of a young woman's harrowing coming-of-age amid glamour, excess, and…
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Salman Rushdie
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the…
Jo Peck
An uplifting, witty and hilarious memoir about the road from the shock and despair of a sudden marriage break-up to a fabulous new life
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Patric Gagne
An utterly compelling, drily funny, and, at times, jaw-dropping account of life as a diagnosed sociopath from a music manager who retrained as a therapist to better understand her condition…
Bradley Trevor Greive, Caroline Laner Breure
Sometimes the whole truth is the death of everything.
Nova Weetman
How do we become more after losing? Beloved Australian author Nova Weetman shares her heartfelt experiences with grief and loss while also celebrating the profound beauty of love and life.
Abbas El-Zein
A story of survival, and a meditation on desire and loss, language and violence
Rosie Batty, Sue Smethurst
After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty
Lynda Holden
150,000 adoptions took place in Australia between 1950 and 1975. It is estimated that one in 15 was forced. Proud Dhunghutti woman, laywer, human rights advocate and former midwife Lynda…
Chimene Suleyman
A memoir exposing one man's control over many women, an exploration of the trauma he left behind and the sisterhood that formed in his wake despite - and in spite…
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Anna Jacobson
How do you write a memoir when your memories have been taken? She awakens in hospital, greeted by nurses and patients she doesn’t recognise, but who address her with familiarity…
Dr Kerryn Phelps AM
A memoir and manifesto from the remarkable Kerryn Phelps
Dominic Gordon
A wild ride through a disaffected youth by a gifted writer. Dominic Gordon explores his memories in tight prose bursting with insight, audacious ideas and dark humour.
Adam Shatz
Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, a French colony, in 1925. As a young man, he volunteered to fight in De Gualle's army for the liberation of France, and trained…
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Sue Williams
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets.
RuPaul
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date
Carrie Sun
A gripping memoir of one woman's self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indictment of privilege, extreme wealth, and work culture
Peter Goldsworthy
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness.
Anna Broinowski
Datson Angel is a turbo-charged adventure into the savage heart of 1980s Australia: a place completely alien, yet frighteningly similar, to today.
Sloane Crosley
Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley's memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend.
David Goodwin
An odyssey of drive-offs, spiked slurpees, stale sausage rolls and sleep-deprived madness.
Brian Herbert
The insightful and illuminating biography of one of science fiction's most imaginative minds, written by Frank Herbert's son Brian Herbert.
Y-Dang Troeung
A brilliant, devastating memoir about the very act of writing memoir, and what it means to bear witness to atrocity
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Madelaine Dickie, Wayne Bergmann
Discover the remarkable story of Wayne Bergmann, a Nyikina man and Kimberley leader who has dedicated his life to his community, in this moving memoir of living between two cultures.
Jennifer Clement
An ultra-vivid, carnivalesque memoir of Jennifer Clement's early life from 60s Mexico to 80s New York City - the prequel to Widow Basquiat
Kerstin Pilz
A wise and witty memoir about having to care for the very person who has hurt you the most. Perfect for fans of Kathy Lette and Elizabeth Gilbert.
Sheila Heti
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning author of Pure Colour, in the vein of Joe Brainard and Edouard Leve.
Crystal Hefner
Combining the nostalgic writing of Jennette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died with the urgency of Emily Ratajkowski's My Body, this gripping memoir from Hugh Hefner's widow lays bare the…
Gary Stevenson
The high-wire true story of the millionaire trader, who won the finance game and then blew it wide open
Robert Gluck
A moving story about love, AIDS, grief, and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come out of San Francisco's LGBTQ+ scene.
Victoria Vanstone
Victoria Vanstone was trapped in a cycle of binge drinking and hangxiety. In this hilarious and heartfelt memoir, she charts her transition from party girl to parent, and how she…
Mary Gabriel
In this exceptional biography, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era: Madonna.
Adele Dumont
Reminiscent of the writing of Leslie Jamison and Fiona Wright, The Pulling is a fascinating exploration of the inner workings of a mind.
Keren Blankfeld
The incredible true story of two Holocaust survivors who fell in love in Auschwitz, only to be separated upon liberation and lead remarkable lives apart following the war - and…
Carly-Jay Metcalfe
A triumphant story of hope and survival
Colum McCann, Diane Foley
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures…
McKenzie Wark
A breathtaking memoir of transition, history, art, and memory
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Roger Lewis
The comic genius of English writing takes on Hollywood, delusion, celebrity and last century’s ultimate glamour couple: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
Kristine Philipp
A funny and provocative memoir about a woman working to live, not the other way around.
Ben Rothenberg
This deeply revealing biography of tennis phenomenon Naomi Osaka tells the story behind her grand slam-winning career and her advocacy for racial justice and mental health.
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Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie (trans.)
'My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon.' Thus begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become Annie…
Jami Nakamura Lin, Cori Nakamura Lin (illus.)
In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated lyrical memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo to shift…
Jozsef Debreczeni, Paul Olchváry (trans.)
A rediscovered classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor Jozsef Debreczeni
Matthew Lamb
A cultural history of the times that shaped Frank Moorhouse and which Moorhouse himself helped to shape.
Hua Hsu
Capturing a coming-of-age cut short, and a portrait of a beautiful friendship, Stay True is a deeply moving and intimate memoir about growing up and moving through the world in…
Maggie Smith
Award-winning poet and author Maggie Smith offers a lush, heartrending and instant bestselling memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age
Alex Miller
A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life.
Mary Haverstick
The true story of a filmmaker whose unexpected investigation of her film’s subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of…
