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Chloe Higgins
A memoir of enormous power: of family, loss, and sexuality which recalls Kate Holden, Fiona Wright or Sarah Krasnostein.
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Jess Hill
Combining exhaustive research with riveting storytelling, See What You Made Me Do dismantles the flawed logic of victim-blaming and challenges everything you thought you knew about domestic and family violence.
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Stephanie Wood
Now a Paramount+ TV series, inspired by the book, starring Asher Keddie and David Wenham.
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Erin Rhoads
All the tips, tricks and motivation you need to transition to a less wasteful life.
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An anthology that aims to smash the stereotypes of Arabs in Australia that too often proliferate in mainstream media.
Patti Miller
They didn’t know it, but Patti Miller and her brother, Barney, shared something in common - a passion for the illuminating joy of wild nature - with all its challenges…
Gay'wu Group of Women
Songspirals is a rare opportunity for outsiders to experience Aboriginal women’s role in crying the songlines in a very authentic and direct form.
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Samia Khatun
An evocative and gracefully written reflection on cultural encounters between Aboriginals and Indians in the Outback, from the nineteenth century.
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Adele Ferguson
How corporate greed broke our trust and failed Australia.
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Jane McAdam,Fiona Chong
Everyone has the right to seek asylum under international law, but public discourse in Australia about refugees is dominated by scare-mongering and political point-scoring. Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong provide…
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Marianne Broadbent
The Book is in three parts – Lead Yourself with Purpose, Lead Others with Resolve, and Lead with Insight from Others. Not only is this book for the experienced executive…
Magda Szubanski
Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where Magda Szubanski, one of Australia’s most beloved performers, tells her story
Gabrielle Carey
Two literary lives defined by storytelling and secrets As her mother Joan lies dying, Gabrielle Carey writes a letter to Joan’s childhood friend, the reclusive novelist Randolph Stow. This letter…
Christine Kenneally
The Invisible History of the Human Race describes how biology, psychology, and history shape us as individuals.
Janine Burke and Helen Hughes (Eds.)
How one woman helped shape the Australian art world.
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Kim Mahood
Imagine the document you have before you is not a book but a map. It is well-used, creased, and folded, so that when you open it, no matter how carefully…
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…
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Rebecca Starford
Everyone remembers those stomach churning teenage years full of angst, hormones and changes. When you are locked up away from your parents in a complicated world of teenagers and authority…
Chloe Hooper
The story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the…
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Anna Clark
The past is consumed on a grand scale: popularised by television programs, enjoyed by reading groups, walking groups, historical societies and heritage tours, and supported by unprecedented digital access to…
Anna Krien
For decades, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of bitter struggle. Sawmillers and police face off with protestors deep in the forest, while political games are played in the…
Clare Wright
Ten years in the research and writing, inimitably bold, entertaining and irreverent in style, Clare Wright’s The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka is a fitting tribute to the unbiddable women of…
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Karen Hitchcock
In this short, powerful book, Karen Hitchcock shines a light on ageism in our society
Eva Orner
Filmmaker Eva Orner takes us on a personal, gripping and compelling journey to show us how she came to make her documentary about Australia’s asylum seeker policies.
Elizabeth Tynan
In 1950 Australian prime minister Robert Menzies blithely agreed to atomic tests that offered no benefit to Australia and relinquished control over them - and left the public completely in…
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Including new chapters. Frank, fearless, funny, articulate and inspiring, Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a dynamo, a young Muslim dynamo offering a bracing breath of fresh air - and hope.
Larissa Behrendt
A vital Aboriginal perspective on colonial storytelling
Elspeth Muir
In 2009 Elspeth Muir’s youngest brother finished his last university exam and went out with some mates to get drunk. Later that night he wandered to the Story Bridge. He…
Alice Pung
Offers a vivid and ironic sense of two worlds. Combines the story of Pung’s life growing up in suburban Footscray, with the inherited stories of the women in her family.
Annabel Crabb
Why women need wives, and men need lives. ‘I need a wife’ It’s a common joke among women juggling work and family. But it’s not actually a joke. Having a…
Julia Leigh
At the age of 38 acclaimed novelist Julia Leigh made her first visit to the IVF clinic, full of hope. So started a long and costly journey of nightly injections…
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…
‘The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and white crepe paper when the rumour of a pack rape by celebrating footballers began…
Anne Summers
Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when Damned Whores and God’s Police was first published in 1975. That was before the…
