Biography and memoir
Something to Believe In by Andrew Stafford
Something To Believe In is a memoir of music, madness and love, all wrapped in one beautifully written book. Andrew Stafford’s first book, Pig City, was both a history of the Brisbane music scene as well as a look…
Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice by Jessica White
Hearing Maud is a compelling work of creative nonfiction. In many ways, this is a book about the power of language, of writing, and of finding one’s own voice. Jessica White lost all of her hearing in her left ear…
Fake by Stephanie Wood
Boy meets girl. Boy kisses girl. Boy lies to girl, manipulates her emotionally, and comes up with countless outlandish excuses for cancelled dates (all while having at least one other woman on the side for the duration of their relationship)…
Breaking Badly by Georgie Dent
Georgie Dent is an accomplished journalist and public speaker. She is the contributing editor of Women’s Agenda, and tweets on feminist issues. But while her memoir, Breaking Badly, details her career rise as a journalist and public figure over…
Unconditional Love: A Memoir of Filmmaking and Motherhood by Jocelyn Moorhouse
You’ve seen her beautiful movies and you have rejoiced that an Australian female director has won so many awards and accolades for her work. You may have remarked that Jocelyn Moorhouse’s most recent work, The Dressmaker, managed to convey…
The Little Girl on the Ice Floe by Adelaide Bon, translated by Ruth Diver
As the scale and impact of child sexual abuse is finally becoming acknowledged and understood (though tenuously so, as recent comments by a defence QC in a famous court case chillingly reminded us), the realisation that so many people live…
Active Labour: Memoirs of a Working-Class Doctor by Percy Rogers
Active Labour, the title of Percy Rogers’ autobiography, alludes to his work as an obstetrician pioneering the Lamaze method of childbirth, and also his life-long commitment to social activism. His fascinating story takes the reader through a remarkable number…
Happy Never After by Jill Stark
Five years after publishing High Sobriety, Jill Stark returns with Happy Never After, somewhere between a follow-up memoir and investigative journalism.
Where High Sobriety explored Stark’s and the general community’s relationship with alcohol, here she turns her sights…
Always Another Country by Sisonke Msimang
Perth-based South African writer Sisonke Msimang was raised in exile in the 1970s and 80s by her South African freedom-fighter parents. Her childhood and early adulthood were spent in Zambia, Canada, Kenya and the United States. After apartheid, her family…
No Country Woman by Zoya Patel
Zoya Patel was born in Fiji to Indian parents, and came to Australia at three years old. In her thoughtful debut essay collection, she grapples with the idea of identity, and the often confusing experience of identifying as Fijian-Indian, Australian…
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