Biography & memoir 2017

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Work Strife Balance

Mia Freedman

A fearless, hilarious, inspiring collection of modern-day misadventures.

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China Baby Love: An Australian Grandmother’s Life Changing Mission to Help China’s Orphans

Jane Hutcheon

How one woman turned her life upside down to help those who needed it most - half a world away.

Every orphan comes with a story. Every journalist has a…

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Who I Am

Charlotte Rampling,Christophe Bataille

The autobiography of acclaimed actor, model and chanteuse Charlotte Rampling

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The Attachment: Letters from a most unlikely friendship

Ailsa Piper,Tony Doherty

A celebration of friendship, renewal, nature and the human spirit told through letters between a writer and an 80-year-old priest. Original, surprising - both highly entertaining and deeply moving.

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The Fabulous Flying Mrs Miller

Carol Baxter

The remarkable true story of a beguiling Melbourne housewife who in the 1920s seeks international fame, fortune and adventure as an aviator and finds herself as the central figure in…

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Things That Helped: Essays

Jessica Friedmann

In this stunning collection, Jessica Friedmann navigates her journey through postpartum depression after the birth of her son. Drawing on critical theory, popular culture, and personal experience, her wide-ranging essays…

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A Wife’s Heart: The Untold Story of Bertha and Henry Lawson

Kerrie Davies

An innovative, imaginative work of biography, examining Bertha and Henry Lawson’s marriage through a modern lens.

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Dear Quentin: Letters of a Governor-General

Quentin Bryce

As Australia’s first female Governor-General, Quentin Bryce wrote to those she had met and connected with as her role took her around Australia, receiving letters from every corner of the…

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My Way

Moana Hope

A high-flying athlete who is grounded by remarkable selflessness, Moana Hope is an inspiration for women and girls everywhere. My Way is her story.

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South and West: From a Notebook

Joan Didion

From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks-writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and…

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The Poison Principle

Gail Bell

Intricate, elegant, and beautifully realised, The Poison Principle is a masterful book about family secrets and literary poisonings.

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South of Forgiveness

Thordis Elva,Tom Stranger

It wasn’t without fear that Thordis Elva kissed her three-year-old son and her loving partner goodbye before boarding a plane in Reykjavik, Iceland on March 27, 2013. The aim was…

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The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

Thi Bui

An intimate and moving portrait of one family’s journey from their war-torn home in Vietnam to new lives in America

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You’re Not Rob Snarski: Crumbs from the Cake

Rob Snarski

From Perth to Europe and all points in between, Rob Snarski shares his observations and insights from the music world he has performed in, the people he has worked with…

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Woolloomooloo: A biography

Louis Nowra

It was no wonder I was glad to be down in Woolloomooloo. The Old Fitzroy reminded me of how Kings Cross used to be. Told in his vivid and entertaining…

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Time to Die

Rodney Syme

Rodney Syme has been an advocate for medically assisted dying for more than twenty years. In Time to Die he reflects on those living and dying in pain and shares…

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Only: A Singular Memoir

Caroline Baum

Caroline Baum’s fascinating and moving memoir about being an only child in a very unusual family.

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Primo Levi’s Resistance: Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy

Sergio Luzzatto, Frederika Randall (trans.)

No other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful as Primo Levi. Yet Levi was not only a victim or a witness. In the fall of 1943, at the very…

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One Leg Over

Robin Dalton

A surprising, lively and fun memoir of love, relationships and a young woman’s sexual liberation

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The Helen 100

Helen Razer

A hundred dates in less than a year. Will they heal her broken heart or make it worse? Brilliant, hilarious and excruciating confessions from bestselling writer and journalist Helen Razer.

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Martin Sharp: His Life and Times

Joyce Morgan

The life of the charismatic, unconventional, unique and surprising Martin Sharp - pop artist and joint founder of the underground magazine Oz

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A Stranger in My Own Country - The 1944 Prison Diary

H Fallada

I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses.

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