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Robert Dessaix
This is vintage Robert Dessaix. His often surprisingly funny recollections range over topics as eclectic as intimacy, travel, spirituality, enchantment, language and childhood, all woven through with a heightened sense…
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Barry Hill
In his first major prose work since 2002’s Broken Song, Barry Hill has written an epic - a travel book, a history book, a peace book. His odyssey begins with…
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Suzanne Falkiner
Four days before Christmas in 1920, Dorothy Mort shot her lover dead in cold blood. The tragic end to her affair with dashing young doctor, cricket star and War hero…
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Tim Fischer
Who was the most innovative general of WW1? For Tim Fischer, the answer has to be Australia’s ‘Maestro’ John Monash, a man who, for all the recognition he received in…
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Meredith Fletcher
Writer in a Valley is the compelling story of Jean Galbraith (1906-1999), one of Australia’s most influential botanists and writers on nature, plants and gardens. As a garden writer, she…
Martin Edmond
Battarbee and Namatjira is the biography of two artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira, one white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, the other Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the…
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Scott Bevan
This is the story of one of Australia’s greatest artists, William Dobell. It explores how ambition and talent took a working class boy a long way in the world, and…
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Susan Mitchell
This is the compelling story of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, his wife Margaret and their 70-year relationship - personal and political, private and public. It is a story of…
Michelle Potter
A wonderful celebration of the life of Dame Maggie Scott, recognizing her contribution to dance over the last 67 years.
David Walsh
MONA’s David Walsh is an enigma in the Australian art world. A Bone of Fact is his unconventional, absorbing and brilliantly surprising memoir.
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Patrick Weller
Beginning with Rudd’s childhood in rural Queensland, examines the people, places and politics that shaped him into the leader he is today. A frank analysis of Kevin Rudd’s leadership style…
Kristy Chambers
From the author of the bestselling Get Well Soon! My (Un)Brilliant Career as a Nurse comes a hilarious - and brutally honest - memoir about mental illness and depression. For…
Tim Colebatch
He was the reforming leader who made Victoria a leader in social equality, the arts, and the environment. He and his government built the underground rail loop, decriminalised homosexuality, abolished…
Lee Kofman
Lee Kofman, rebellious daughter of ultra-orthodox Jews, has always sought her own way. True to her Bohemian dream where love can coexist with sexual freedom, she decided to experiment with…
Maggie MacKellar
After Maggie Mackellar’s acclaimed When It Rains, her second memoir traces with her characteristic candour and perception her move to Tasmania, for love, and the struggles and joys of…
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Lorelei Vashti
A charming coming-of-age memoir in which every dress tells a story. Dress, Memory is about a decade in dresses. Perceptive and poignant, humorous and heartwarming, it’s the story of growing…
Kim Williams
From FOXTEL to News Corp, film to football, opera to business, Kim Williams is a builder of Australian institutions. He has worked with some of the very best in their…
Bruce Morcombe,Denise Morcombe
On 7 December 2003 Daniel Morcombe disappeared on the Sunshine Coast, while waiting for a bus.
Elizabeth Morrison
This biography of David Sydme, a powerful man of many parts, seeks to go behind the legend and round out the story of his life - primarily as press ‘baron’…
Cassandra Atherton
Wide - ranging in theme and context, it explores the imaginative effects of his writing. A tribute to Chris on the occasion of this eightieth birthday, in many ways it…
Eddie Ayres
In her provocative, intelligent, surprising and funny memoir Cadence, Emma cycles her way from England to Hong Kong with a violin she calls Aurelia strapped to her back. But it…
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Mandy Sayer
In the follow-up to her bestselling memoir, Dreamtime Alice, Mandy Sayer tells the story of the ten years she and Yusef Komunyakaa spent together, first as lovers, then as husband…
Sian Prior
Shy. It’s a shy word, a timid little word that begs to remain unnoticed. Only three letters long, and it begins with an exhortation to silence. Shhh. Reserved is different…
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Barbara Lemon
Ola Cohn was a pioneer of modernist sculpture in Australia and her Fairies’ Tree in Melbourne’s Fitzroy Gardens has delighted generations of children. A way with the fairies brings Cohn’s…
Liam Pieper
Hilarious, compelling and sometimes heartbreaking, The Feel-Good Hit of the Year is a memoir about family, drugs and learning how to live with yourself, from a sharp and original new…
Greg Combet
The Fights of My Life is the story of a man who faces up to the power structures of politics, big business and the media. His latest target is the…
Sami Shah
An intelligent, hilarious and moving memoir - from Karachi to Western Australia. Read I, Migrant and laugh til you cry. Despite nearly being killed by a kangaroo and almost lynched…
