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Everything and Nothing

Heather Mitchell

A powerful, immersive and intimately candid memoir exploring the light and shade that co-exist in love, family and the arts, from celebrated stage and screen actor Heather Mitchell

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Heartbake

Charlotte Ree

Reminiscent of Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart and Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love, Charlotte Ree's Heartbake is part memoir, part recipe book, and part joyous battle cry…

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Inconceivable: Heartbreak, Bad Dates and Finding Solo Motherhood

Alexandra Collier

Written with warmth, intelligence and humour, Alexandra Collier's inspiring memoir takes us on the wild ride of becoming a mother on your own terms.

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Did I Ever Tell You This? A Memoir

Sam Neill

Actor Sam Neill's unmissable memoir is revealing, heart-warming and often hilarious, as he recounts the unpredictable turns of fortune that have defined his life and career.

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Infidelity and Other Affairs

Kate Legge

What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you confront living on your own? In amongst parents dying, careers ending and becoming a grandparent?

As a…

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A Joyful Life

Rosemary Kariuki, Summer Land

An extraordinary memoir of one migrant's resilience, not just to survive, but shine.

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Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man

Frances Peters-Little

In this first biography of the man and his music, Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man tells the incredible story of one of Australia's most acclaimed Aboriginal pop and country…

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Tanya Plibersek: On Her Own Terms

Margaret Simons

A fascinating portrait of one of Australia's most influential women

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The Last Daughter

Brenda Matthews

An unmissable First Nations memoir that tells of the shattering experience of being stolen, The Last Daughter is a story of heartbreak and healing that offers a path forward for…

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Anaximander

Carlo Rovelli

The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics tells the thrilling story of one of the greatest intellectual leaps of all time.

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Life So Full of Promise

Ross McMullin

Life So Full of Promise, his second multi-biography about Australia’s lost generation of World War I, features a collection of interwoven stories set in that defining era.

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Inner Song: A Biography of Margaret Sutherland

Jillian Graham

Did Margaret Sutherland achieve more for Australian music than any other composer?

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Love, Pamela

Pamela Anderson

A memoir covering the life of Canadian actress, model, and activist, Pamela Anderson.

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The God of No Good

Sita Walker

Traversing decades and continents – from Iran to India, Sri Lanka to the Czech Republic, Adelaide to the Torres Strait – The God of No Good is a beautifully lyrical…

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Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

Janet Malcolm

For decades, Janet Malcolm’s books and dispatches for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books poked and prodded at reportorial and biographical convention, gesturing towards the artifice…

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The Queen’s Wife

Joanne Drayton

A modern love story- whakapapa, archaeology, art and heartbreak.

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Gigorou

Sasha Sarago

In a time where the patriarchy obstructs women from the divine feminine, and sexism, racism and ageism violate our sovereignty, Gigorou invites us to explore the interconnectedness of Aboriginal culture…

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I Don’t Need Therapy

Toni Lodge

A hilarious memoir of home truths and whatever the opposite of 'that girl energy' is, from one half of the hit podcast Toni and Ryan.

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All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything

Claire Harman

Accessible, lively new biography of an under-served female writer, from a bestselling, acclaimed literary biographer

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Stay True: A Memoir

Hua Hsu

From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art.

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Raising Raffi: A Book about Fatherhood (For People Who Would Never Read Such a Book)

Keith Gessen

'A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene' - New York Times

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Spare

Prince Harry

The extraordinary and unflinching memoir from Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex.

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century- two young boys, two princes, walking…

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Higher Sobriety: My Years Without Booze

Jill Stark

What happened next? It's the question Jill Stark has been asked most often since the publication of her acclaimed memoir, High Sobriety.

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Taking Sides: A Memoir About Love, War, and Changing the World

Sherine Tadros

The deeply moving memoir of an award-winning war correspondent turned activist - and her rousing defence of human rights in times of resurgent authoritarianism.

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Political Lives

Chris Wallace

Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.

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A Little Give: The Unsung, Unseen, Undone Work of Women

Marina Benjamin

In Marina Benjamin's new set of interlinked essays, she turns her astute eye to the tasks once termed 'women's work'. From cooking and cleaning to caring for an ageing relative…

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The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942

Zachary Gorman

Explores the formative period of Sir Robert Menzies’s life, when his personal outlook and system of beliefs that would help shape modern Australia were themselves still being formed. Contributors look…

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We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958

Fintan O'Toole

Fintan O'Toole’s history of Ireland in his own time. Ireland has changed almost out of recognition during the decades since O'Toole’s birth in 1958, and this is his very personal…

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Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

Brigitta Olubas

At last - the authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Great Fire, The Transit of Venus and Greene on…

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Uncultured

Daniella Mestyanek Young

In the vein of Tara Westover’s Educated, Daniella Mestyanek’s memoir is a searing and powerful testament to a woman’s ability to transform the circumstances of her life through inner strength…

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Novelist as a Vocation

Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel & Ted Goossen (trans)

A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels.

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Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides

Paul Clements

The first full account of a truly remarkable life.

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Madly, Deeply

Alan Rickman, Alan Taylor (ed.)

Alan Rickman was one of the world-class actors of his generation, as well as a tireless political activist, an avid traveller and a devoted confidant and friend. Through his never-before-seen…

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My Dream Time

Ash Barty

It’s a tennis story. It’s a family story. It’s a teamwork story. It’s the story of how I got to where and who I am today.

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Cannon Fire: A Life in Print

Michael Cannon

The froth and the bubble and the standing like stone.

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Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters

Mandy Sayer

The trailblazing McDonagh sisters were the first women in Australia to form their own film production company. Between 1926 and 1933, while they were in their mid-twenties, these sassy sisters…

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Running up that Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush

Tom Doyle

A mosaic biography featuring snapshots, stories, episodes, interviews and insights that will lift the curtain on the real Kate Bush.

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Sultan: A Memoir

Wasim Akram, Gideon Haigh

Sultan is the official biography of Wasim Akram, the "sultan of swing", one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history of cricket.

For twenty years, Wasim Akram let his…

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Landlines

Raynor Winn

Global bestselling author Raynor Winn returns with her third and most ambitious memoir, a chronicle of her journey across Great Britain.

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The Successor

Paddy Manning

The first major biography of Lachlan Murdoch, one of the world’s most powerful and enigmatic people - an epic saga of ruthless power plays and family battles.

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Tell Me Again

Amy Thunig

The most inspirational and important memoir of 2022

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True Hallucinations

Terence McKenna

The cult psychedelic adventure memoir from the world-famous ethnobotanist Terence McKenna.

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Making a Scene

Constance Wu

From influential and iconic star Constance Wu, a powerful and poignant memoir-in-essays full of funny and intimate observations that will resonate with readers everywhere.

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Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here

Heather Rose

A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from the award-winning author of Bruny and The Museum of Modern Love.

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Wandering with Intent

Kim Mahood

To essay means to try, to endeavour, to attempt - and to risk failure. For Kim Mahood, it is both a form of writing and an approach to life.

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A Year with Wendy Whiteley

Ashleigh Wilson

A must-have for culture lovers, A Year with Wendy Whiteley sees the biographer and critic Ashleigh Wilson painting a portrait of the inimitable Wendy Whiteley-in her own words.

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Dirtbag, Massachusetts

Isaac Fitzgerald

The best of what memoir can accomplish… pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always finds the capacity for grace and joy. -Esquire, Best Memoirs of the…

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It’s a Shame About Ray

Jonathan Seidler

It’s a Shame About Ray is an extraordinary and powerful memoir about family, love and the power of music.

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