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Ray Whitrod
In the early 1970s, Queensland was a haven for crooks from both sides of the law. It was into this hothouse that Ray Whitrod was controversially appointed as police commissioner…
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Malcolm Knox
Published to coincide with the 2013 Ashes Test series between England and Australia, this is the extraordinary story of how the 1948 Invincibles turned the cricket pitch into a battlefield.
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Alice Bilari Smith
This is Alice’s insightful and inspiring story - the story of a life that is remarkable and yet typical of Australia’s strong country women.
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Jamie Brisick
‘Peter was always looking for a princess, he wanted to find his princess. Unfortunately, the princess was me. I’m the princess that Peter always wanted but never met.’ Westerly Windina'Westerly’s…
Graeme Leith
Electrician, Graeme Leith joined Melbourne’s theatre collective at Carton’s famously innovative Pram Factory Theatre and said ‘let there be light’. And there was; Graham Blundell, Jack Hibberd, Max Gillies and…
Anne Gorman
In the tradition of Strength to Strength comes an unforgettable memoir of heartbreak and triumph. When she is five, Anne Gorman’s family disintegrates. After thirteen pregnancies and the death of…
Hannie Rayson
I realise that, despite all the references to my longing to be a writer, two things are apparent.
The first is that I don’t actually do much writing; the second…
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John Charles Barrie
Against his mother’s wishes, John Charles Barrie joined the Australian army in 1909. Five years later, he was on his way to Egypt as an officer with the Australian Imperial…
Peter Rees (Author)
‘Peter Rees has done what no one else has managed: read the vast Bean archive and get inside the head of the most influential figure in Australia’s military history. Rees’s…
Kate Howarth
The much-awaited sequel to the The Age Non-fiction Book of the Year winner Ten Hail Marys
Following on from Ten Hail Marys, which chronicled her volatile upbringing and the…
Ross Gittins
For forty years Ross Gittins has had a ringside seat as the Australian economy has gone through radical change. He’s covered forty budgets and sixteen elections, he’s watched thirteen treasurers…
Karen Lamb
Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather is the long-awaited biography of one of Australia’s most beloved authors.
Graeme Davison
Historian Graeme Davison was never interested in family history. But when he discovered in his grandfather’s notebook an account of the family’s arrival in Melbourne in 1850 on the infamous…
Abdi Aden,Robert Hillman
A remarkably warm-hearted, uplifting and inspiring story of one boy’s survival against the odds. Abdi’s world fell apart when he was only fifteen and Somalia’s vicious civil war hit Mogadishu…
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Martin Flanagan
A portrait of Michael Long, the man who changed the Australian game.
In 1995, Aboriginal footballer Michael Long gave the AFL its ‘Mandela moment’. He quietly revolutionised Australian sport by…
Nancy Underhill
Digging through the myths around Australia’s most famous artist, many of which he created himself as a masterful self - promoter, this book is the biography that Sidney Nolan deserves…
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Robert Wainwright
The first full-length biography of George Ingle Finch - maverick Australian mountaineer, scientist, concert pianist and father of actor Peter Finch.
George Ingle Finch, mountaineer, soldier, scientist, rebellious spirit, boy…
Garth Callender
A very Australian story of heroism and healing. In 2004 Garth Callender, a junior cavalry officer, was deployed to Iraq. He quickly found his feet leading convoys of armoured vehicles…
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Jeremy Oxley,Mary Oxley Griffiths
Jeremy Oxley was diagnosed with schizophrenia aged 22, at the height of his fame as singer of the popular band Sunnyboys. Terrified and in denial, he tried to hide his…
Julia Gillard
I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three days of changing the nation.Three years and three days for you…
Cat Thao Nguyen
Told through the bright and unflinching eyes of Cat Thao, a daughter born in a refugee camp, We Are Here is a memoir that begins in 1975 with her family’s…
Bill Neidjie,Mark Lang
Right then,‘ he said with a sigh, and then turned to me with a grin. 'I tell you story, eh!’ Then he said something which really floored me: ‘I been…
Vera Wasowski
My revenge on Hitler is a lifetime in which delight has reached me from a hundred sources, and been welcomed.‘ - Vera Wasowski. A story of courage, unconventionality and lust…
Renata Singer
For the first time in history, women can expect to live well from their sixties for another three decades. In Older and Bolder, Renata Singer contrasts the stories of the…
Carolyn Landon
This is the story of Celia Rosser, internationally acclaimed Botanical Illustrator, who ultimately dedicated her life to painting the entire genus of Banksia, the only artist to have done such…
Anson Cameron
You know those childhood memoirs that tell of the innocence of youth, of a gentle past when boys and girls were adorable and agreeable, respectful of their elders, and spoke…
Lesley Williams, Tammy Williams
Two remarkable women tell an inspirational story about the power of family and pursuing your dreams. Lesley Williams is forced to leave Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement and her family at a…
Fiona Wright
Small Acts of Disappearance is a collection of ten essays that describes the authors affliction with an eating disorder which begins in high school, and escalates into life-threatening anorexia over…
Janet Hawley
This is Wendy’s story but it’s also the story of the countless people who cherish the Secret Garden.
Les Murray
On Bunyah’s poems and images (both full colour and black and white) depict Les Murray’s rural home town and its surrounding landscape as only he knows it. Chosen from Murray’s…
John Brumby
Distils a series of practical lessons on leadership and public life from John Brumby’s thirty years in politics. It offers insights into the challenges and opportunities Australia currently faces and…
Drusilla Modjeska
Beginning with the disastrous events of the night before her fortieth birthday, in Second Half First Drusilla Modjeska looks back on the experiences of the past thirty years that have…
Lesley Harding,Kendrah Morgan
Much has been written about the lives and art of Heide, but finally the remaining members of the inner circle have entrusted the truth to be told through this intimate…
Magda Szubanski
If you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin.
Margaret Simons
Life lessons from the ground up.
Betty Churcher
The Forgotten Notebook is based on sketches Betty Churcher drew in the great galleries of the world when she raced through them as director of the National Gallery of Australia…
