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Damien Brown
A powerful, heart-breaking, surprisingly funny, honest and ultimately uplifting account of life on the medical frontline, and a moving testimony of the work done by Medecins Sans Frontieres and the…
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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…
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Roland Perry
He was a little stray pup the boys of First Australian Machine Gun Battalion saved from harsh Libyan Desert. He became their much-loved mascot and saviour. But what happened to…
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Earl Owen
Earl Owen was the first surgeon to be able to reverse vasectomies and complete fallopian tube ligatures (using his microsurgical prowess). And he designed the chairs in the Sydney Opera…
Rebecca Mead
A celebration of George Eliot’s life, work and greatest novel, exploring through a mixture of literary biography, deep reading and personal memoir how Middlemarch answers fundamental questions about life and…
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…
Zoe Daniel
From the political unrest in Bangkok and the bittersweet story of conjoined twins in India, to a tragic plane crash in Laos and the destruction of Typhoon Haiyan in the…
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Doris Brett
The Twelfth Raven is a literary journey through a series of crises, and an inspirational story of recovery after stroke. Doris Brett’s brave and unflinching memoir offers hope to the…
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Matthew Condon
The much-anticipated sequel to the bestselling Three Crooked Kings. Here we read about the shocking true story of Queensland and how a society was shaped by almost half a century…
Julie Szego
In the style of literary non-fiction comes a compelling, true story that will appeal to mystery, crime and “CSI” aficionados and anyone interested in justice for all in the midst…
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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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Rafael Epstein
Prisoner X, just 34 years old, was slumped in a small bathroom, separated from his cell by a transparent door. Kept in one of the most technologically sophisticated solitary jail…
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Kurt Vonnegut
Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, the author is funny, wise and modest. As he himself said: ‘I am…
Dan Bischoff
Gandolfini: One of a Kind is the first biography of the actor, who died in June 2013 at age 51, and who some think was one of the best–and most…
David Vann
David Vann has loved boats all his life. So when his academic career seems to be stuck in the doldrums, he leaps at the opportunity to start an educational charter…
Adam Begley
In this eye-opening, authoritative biography, Adam Begley offers a captivating portrait of John Updike, the author who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America, and who…
Eva Slonim
These events, the persecution of my people, have simply become part of the collection of facts that people now call ‘history’. I lived these facts every day. They are part…
Jennifer Saunders
A young Dawn French, bluffing her way to each BBC series, shooting Lulu, trading wild faxes with Joanna Lumley, touring India with Ruby Wax and Goldie Hawn. There’s cancer, too…
Marcus Luttrell,Patrick Robinson
It was a top-secret US military mission. Now, the SEAL team leader finally tells the stunning true story
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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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…
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…
Rob Oakeshott
From deep inside the last Parliament, Rob Oakeshott reveals the real story of being an independent during the Gillard government. From his apprenticeship in the NSW Parliament to the last…
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…
Madonna King
Will this man be Australia’s next Prime Minister? The son of an immigrant and a Bondi beauty queen, Joe Hockey is one of Australia’s most popular politicians with one of…
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…
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.
Biff Ward
Poignant and moving memoir of Elizabeth Ward, known to one and all as Biff, who grew up in the 1950s in a household that tiptoed around her mother’s demons and…
Rochus Misch
After being seriously wounded in the 1939 Polish campaign, Rochus Misch was invited to join Hitler’s SS-bodyguard. There he served until the war’s end as Hitler’s bodyguard, courier, orderly and…
Josh Hanagarne
An inspiring story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette’s found salvation in books and weight-lifting. Hanagarne couldn’t be invisible if he tried. Determined to conquer his affliction, he underwent…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Linda Tirado
An urgent, uncompromising and heartfelt insider’s account of what it is like to be poor and working-class in the modern West
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…
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.
James Westcott
The extraordinary life and death-defying work of one of the most important and pioneering performance artists in contemporary art.
Michelle Potter
A wonderful celebration of the life of Dame Maggie Scott, recognizing her contribution to dance over the last 67 years.
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…
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…
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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Edward Follis,Douglas Century
A highly decorated DEA agent recounts his incredible undercover career and reveals the shocking links between narcotics trafficking and terrorism.
Nick Drake,Gabrielle Drake,Cally Callomon
An official celebration of Nick Drake’s life and music.
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…
