Biography and memoir
Teacher by Gabbie Stroud
Education and teachers are political footballs like no other. Politicians regularly stir up controversy about teachers’ daily working lives: their (excessive) wages; their (generous) holidays; their (misdirected) classroom focus. Parents, understandably anxious to get the best for their kids, are…
The Power of Hope by Kon Karapanagiotidis
A recent decision by the Australian government to cut income support for thousands of asylum seekers has meant the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) has reached breaking point. The ASRC relies on donations and has already almost run out of…
I Will Be Complete by Glen David Gold
I love this book. There, I’ve said it. I love it and this is why.
I Will Be Complete is the autobiography that took years for the author to write because he wasn’t quite sure if all the things that…
Get Up Mum by Justin Heazlewood
Justin Heazlewood’s debut memoir launches the reader into the seemingly innocent world of a pre-pubescent boy in 1990s Australia. Giddy with joy, twelve-year-old Heazlewood meticulously details the small events that cause a child so much excitement – athletics carnivals, getting…
Out of the Forest by Gregory P. Smith
Gregory P. Smith was born into a life of violence. At home he was a witness to, and a victim of, his alcoholic father’s physical abuse, and his speed-addled mother’s vicious criticism. Before long, his dysfunctional parents send him to…
Calypso by David Sedaris
‘LOL’ is an acronym I usually avoid, however, when reading David Sedaris it is apt. Calypso, the long-awaited new collection of twenty-one stories from one of the world’s most-loved humorists is an absolute cracker!
Focusing on middle age, mortality…
There Are No Grown-Ups by Pamela Druckerman
I love Pamela Druckerman’s writing. Her last book, French Children Don’t Throw Food, was, and still is, an international bestseller. To be clear, she is not the author of the French Women Don’t Get Fat books. French Children Don’t…
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
During her year as a judge’s associate in the District Court in Queensland, Bri Lee finds herself enduring case after case after case involving rape, sexual assault and child abuse. A fact that Lee keeps hidden from friends and family…
Staying by Jessie Cole
When Jessie Cole is eleven years old, her father presents her with some baby mice he’s uncovered in their compost bin. She is determined to raise them, but one by one they die over the course of a week. Cole…
The Motherhood edited by Jamila Rizvi
In The Motherhood, Jamila Rizvi has compiled a collection of letters all written by women to earlier versions of themselves in a bid to offer guidance and reassurance for those frightful, incredibly heightened first few weeks of being a…
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