Readings Recommends: Biographies & Memoirs

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Style Notes

Maggie Alderson

Maggie Alderson, philosopher of fashion and arbiter of style, brings us a collection of her Style Notes column. Find out why men hate shopping and why women love wearing clothes…

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Red Silk: The Life of Elliott Johnston Qc

Penelope Debelle

Elliott Johnston and his wife became Communists in 1941 and he resigned only to join the South Australian Supreme Court Bench. His appointment as Queen’s Counsel was the highest public…

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Both Sides of the Wire

William Cull,Aaron Pegram

This is Bill Cull’s unforgettable story of his experiences in WW1: he fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front where he was captured by the Germans and was a…

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Mountains Beyond Mountains: One doctor’s quest to heal the world

Tracy Kidder

One man’s fight to save lives in Haiti and everywhere.

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Remind Me Who I Am, Again

Linda Grant

‘A skilful, moving, even humorous book. It is more than an elegy for a lost mother or the charting of one human being’s decline . It is an investigation of…

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Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian

John Elder Robison

Endearing stories and actionable advice that will help Aspergians, and even ordinary geeks, embrace being different and work on the things that hold them back in life. With his usual…

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Townie: A Memoir

Andre Dubus III

Won Book of the Year Adult Non-Fiction-2012 Indie Choice Awards Amazon Best Book of the Month February 2011 An acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that…

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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

Edmund De Waal

264 wood and ivory carvings of animals, plants and people, none of them larger than a matchbox; apprentice potter Edmund de Waal was entranced by the collection when he first…

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Oprah: A Biography

Kitty Kelley

The first complete portrait of one of the most influential, powerful, and admired public figures of our time - the international talk show queen revealed as never before.

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Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual

Professor Michael Scammell

From award-winning author Michael Scammell comes the first authorized biography of Arthur Koestler.

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Finding Valentino: Four Seasons In My Father’s Italy

Angela Di Sciascio

Angela Di Sciascio’s father can no longer describe his past, lost in a world ravaged by Alzheimer’s disease. Deciding not to let his story fade, Angela embarks on a voyage…

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Beating the Odds

Nichola Garvey

Alan Tripp, a man some call a genius and others call a criminal, became the world’s most successful private bookmaker. He was Australia’s most convicted SP bookmaker and was the…

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The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey

Robert Morrison

Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer.

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The Talented Miss Highsmith

Joan Schenkar

Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favourite hero-criminal, the talented Tom Ripley. The author…

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Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir

Margaux Fragoso

I still think about Peter, the man I loved most in the world, all the time. We were friends, soul mates and lovers. I was seven. He was fifty-one.

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Not Dark Yet

David Walker

Spurred on by his encroaching blindness, prominent historian David Walker’s Not Dark Yet is a frank, witty and innovative memoir that connects the small, seemingly inconsequential events of daily life…

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Girl Called Tim

Alexander June

A Girl Called Tim as a memoir is a shocking account of a rural Australian childhood, but also a heartfelt chronicle of living with a mental illness, abuse, rejection, love…

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The Alice Behind Wonderland

Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester turns his unrivaled talents to revealing the significance of the intriguing photograph whose subject inspired Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

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The UFO Diaries: Travels in the weird world of high strangeness

Martin Plowman

A funny, weird and hugely entertaining memoir of travelling around the world in search of UFO landing sights, UFO believers and abductees.

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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris - a common woodland snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, she watches a wild…

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My Favourite Teacher

High-profile Australians including children’s author Mem Fox, comedian Anh Do, retired Chief Justice Michael Kirby, broadcaster Alan Jones and The Chasers’ Julian Morrow, along with contributors from all walks of…

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The Imago: E. L. Grant Watson and Australia

Suzanne Falkiner

Enlisted in 1910 by a Cambridge University sponsored expedition of Western Australia, Grant Watson served as biologist and research aide to celebrated anthropologists A R Brown and Daisy Bates, recording…

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America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag

Sarah Palin

Celebrates the strengths and virtues that have made the United States great. This book ranges widely over American history, culture, and current affairs, and reflects on the key values -…

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Handling Edna

Barry Humphries

In this unauthorised biography, acquired for an unprecedented advance and in spectacular secrecy, long-time manager and the man who was there from the very beginning, Barry Humphries takes a behind-the-…

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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Mark Twain

I’ve struck it! Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. And I will give it away - to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you…

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Just Kids

Patti Smith

Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith’s evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe

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A Life In Pictures

Alasdair Gray

The autobiography in words and pictures of one of Britain’s most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray

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The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister: Vol. 1: I Know My Own Heart

Anne Lister

The diary of a remarkable woman who lived life on her terms in Regency Yorkshire. Anne Lister was a wealthy landowner, industrialist and lesbian.

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