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Paul Livingstone
The inside story of The Doug Anthony All Stars then and now. The no-holds-barred true story behind how the bad boys of Australian comedy reunited - weaker, sicker, funnier, older…but…
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Mal Walden
Memoirs of one of Australia’s most respected and longest-serving TV news presenters, offering exclusive behind-the-scenes insights into sixty years of news headlines.
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George Gittoes
The illustrated autobiography of Australian peace warrior and artist George Gittoes.
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Quentin Kenihan
Quentin Kenihan is living proof that superheroes don’t need capes, just the right attitude. FOREWORD BY RAY MARTIN
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Manny Waks
‘Who gave you permission to speak to anybody?’ Rabbi Telsner, the leader of the Yeshivah Centre, thundered during his regular weekly sermon. It was a question directed to Manny Waks’s…
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M.E. McGuire
This biography studies the making of writer and artist’s wife Cynthia Nolan, born Violet Cynthia Reed. She was almost forty when she married Sidney Nolan and consigned her past to…
Tim Winton
The remarkable true stories of The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play.
Ms Amanda Webster
An honest and deeply personal story of how a privileged white woman deals with the realisation that the children she grew up with were part of the Stolen Generation. A…
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Georgina Arnott
Judith Wright (19152000) remains a giant figure within Australian art, culture and politics. Her 1946 collection of poetry, The Moving Image
John Murphy
John Murphy’s Evatt: A life is a biography of Australian parliamentarian and jurist HV Evatt. Remembered as the first foreign minister to argue for an independent Australian policy in the…
Nicholas Lee
For more than thirty years Nicholas Lee was a cameraman on 60 Minutes, Australia’s most respected and watched current affairs program, alongside Ray Martin, George Negus, Ian Leslie, Richard Carleton…
Ashleigh Wilson
The first authorized biography of this iconic twentieth-century artist, illustrated with classic artworks, rare notebook sketches and candid family photos.
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Elspeth Muir
In 2009 Elspeth Muir’s youngest brother finished his last university exam and went out with some mates to get drunk. Later that night he wandered to the Story Bridge. He…
Eva Orner
Filmmaker Eva Orner takes us on a personal, gripping and compelling journey to show us how she came to make her documentary about Australia’s asylum seeker policies.
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Julia Leigh
At the age of 38 acclaimed novelist Julia Leigh made her first visit to the IVF clinic, full of hope. So started a long and costly journey of nightly injections…
Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis
I want our past to be recorded for future generations to read and know and understand how life was for us desert Aboriginal people and how we live our lives…
Sheridan Palmer
Bernard Smith began life as a ward of the State; he would go on to become the father of Australian art history. In 2008, Smith invited writer and art historian…
Arnold Zable
Henry Nissen was a champion boxer, the boy from Amess Street in working-class Carlton who fought his way up to beat some of the world’s best in the 1970s. Now…
Tom Dusevic
In this exuberant and compelling memoir of family and childhood, readers will be swept away by Tom Dusevic’s verve, warmth and honesty. Suburban Sydney in the 1970s is an adventure…
Marie Munkara
Heartbreaking, darkly funny and deeply moving, Of Ashes and Rivers that Run to the Sea is a fearless account of being a young woman caught between two worlds.
Arminah Hart
Born in London to an Australian mother and West Indian father, Aminah Hart was brought up in Melbourne by her gutsy single mum, Helen, and devoted grandparents. Despite their loving…
Robbi Neal
Stories of life from a remote Aboriginal community that sing with vivid and simple life, truth and power. At the end of 2008, Robbi Neal and her family travelled to…
Yuwali
The memoir of Olive Knight (Kankawa Nagarra), a Wangkajungka woman who has led the most extraordinary life.
Hugo Race
In the spirit of Patti Smith's M Train , Road Series is both love story and elegy. Renowned musician Hugo Race's evocations of Melbourne, Sydney, the USA, Europe and Mali…
Suzanne Falkiner
Randolph Stow was one of the great Australian writers of his generation. His novel To the Islands -
Marianne van Velzen
The incredible life story of the original nomadic writer, Ernestine Hill, evoking a larger-than-life personality, exotic landscapes, and remarkable characters.
Barry Jones
In a long and generously lived life, Barry Jones has been on an endless quest to share the extraordinary and the beautiful, to encourage the pursuit of an abundant life…