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Peter Guralnick
How one man discovered B. B. King, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley, and how his tiny label, Sun Records of Memphis, revolutionised the world.
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Robert Schnakenberg
Hes the sort of actor who can do Hamlet and Charlie’s Angels in the same year. He shuns managers and agents and once agreed to voice the part of Garfield…
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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…
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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…
Margaret Simons
Life lessons from the ground up.
Deyan Sudjic
The incredible life story of one of the 20th century’s most important designers, who knew everyone from Hemingway to Picasso.
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…
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…
Janet Hawley
This is Wendy’s story but it’s also the story of the countless people who cherish the Secret Garden.
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Magda Szubanski
If you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin.
Sophie Hardcastle
A brave, honest, unforgettable memoir about mental illness that breaks the silence and shatters the taboos to give hope to all those struggling to find their way through.
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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…
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…
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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…
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…
Simon Goodman
Simon Goodman’s grandparents came from German-Jewish banking dynasties and died in concentration camps. Originally he knew little about them - his father never spoke of their history or heritage. But…
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…
Una LaMarche
Una LaMarche has written a hilarious take on coming of age by doling out all the advice she wishes her own mother had given her about everything, from how to…
Dee Williams
A personal memoir about downsizing and the author’s experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle –
Thomas Harding
In July 2012, the author’s fourteen-year-old son Kadian was killed in a bicycle accident. Beginning on the day of Kadian’s death, and continuing to the one-year anniversary, and beyond, this…
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…
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…
Adam Ford
Part memoir, part potted history of civilisation, My Life in Ruins is the account of a life lived in uncovering the past. Adam Ford is an archaeologist. Not only has…
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…
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…
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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Etgar Keret
From the man the New Yorker declared ‘a genius’, here is a ridiculously enjoyable, tragicomic collection of essays about raising a son and losing a father
Brett Morgen,Richard Bienstock
The riveting companion book to the highly anticipated documentary about the life of Nirvana frontman and grunge legend Kurt Cobain, featuring expanded exclusive interviews with the family and friends who…
Anne-Marie Foster
Based on a true story, written in Belfast dialect, and set in the Catholic district of the Falls Road post World War II, this narrative tells the story of the…
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…
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…
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…
Melissa Rivers
Joan Rivers was known all over the world - from the Palace Theater to Buckingham Palace, from the bright lights of Las Vegas to the footlights of Broadway, from the…
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…
Judy Sharp
When Judy Sharp took her three-year-old son Tim to a paediatric specialist she was told that his autism was so severe he would never be able to communicate with her…
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…
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…
Alan Sampson
At the beginning of Schools of Fish, Alan Sampson is very much a man bent on success. As a very strict high school principal he was renowned for transforming weak…
Karen Lamb
Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather is the long-awaited biography of one of Australia’s most beloved authors.
Alan Cumming
Presents the story of authors journey of discovery, both a memoir of his childhood in Scotland, and an investigation into his family history which would change him forever.
Elizabeth Bard
Picnic in Provence takes us on another delicious journey, this time to the heart of Provence.
In Lunch in Paris, Elizabeth Bard fell in love with a handsome Frenchman…
Latika Bourke
Latika Bourke was adopted from India, aged eight months. Growing up in Bathurst, New South Wales she felt a deep connection to her Australian home and her Australian family. It…
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me.
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…
Patti Miller
An exquisite memoir of a year spent daydreaming in Paris by award-winner Patti Miller
It must mean something, a dream that can propel you to the other side of the…
Brenda Niall
Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 until his death, aged ninety-nine, in 1963, was a towering figure in Melbourne’s Catholic community. But his political interventions had a profound effect…
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…
