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Richard Scolyer
Revealing his fight against a diagnosis of 'incurable' brain cancer, this is the remarkable story of 2024 co-Australian of the Year Richard Scolyer.
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Patrick McCaughey
A generous and insightful glimpse into the private life and creative process of a giant of Australian landscape painting
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Lech Blaine
From one of Australia's most brilliant writers, a dark comedy about the tangled fates of two couples and the children trapped between them
Cher
Part one of a two-part memoir from the iconic artist and actor
Noni Hazlehurst
An icon. A household name. One of our best-loved actors. Noni Hazlehurst is finally telling a story of her own.
Virginia Trioli
A Bit on the Side is an ode to joy, filled with wisdom, stories, memories and recipes, all told with Virginia's renowned insight and wicked sense of humour. This is…
Ian Nathan
An engaging and in-depth examination of the work of Christopher Nolan, one of the most revered directors working in modern cinema.
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Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science – and the untold story of…
Lili Anolik
An outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the complicated relationship between Joan Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.
Claire Roberts
Ian Fairweather is one of the most significant twentieth-century artists to have worked in Australia, and is exceptional among modern artists for his experience of Chinese life and culture. This…
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Anthony Sharwood
Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko…
Andre Aciman
The elegant and insightful memoir from the bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Find Me and The Gentleman From Peru.
Bethany Joy Lenz
A deliciously witty and inspiring memoir by One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz about her decade in a cult and her quest to break free.
Adam Zamoyski
Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast…
Mayumi Inaba, Ginny Tapley Takemori (trans.)
A beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author's twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, companionship, the writing life, and how cats can change our lives.
Michael Visontay
One hundred years ago, Gabriel Wells, a New York bookseller, committed a crime against history. He broke up the world's greatest book, the Gutenberg Bible, and sold it off in…
Gina Chick
Gina Chick, the inaugural winner of Alone Australia, tells the story of her extraordinary, indomitable life in one of the most powerful, moving memoirs you will ever read.
Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts
A blockbuster memoir from one of Australia's most powerful voices, Long Yarn Short is the incredible story of a young woman's journey - from being stolen from her family as…
Helen Ennis
From multi-award-winning writer Helen Ennis comes the first ever biography of the photographer Max Dupain, the most influential Australian photographer of the 20th century and creator of many iconic images…
Burkhard Bilger
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this 'unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war' (Patrick Radden Keefe, author…
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Tracy Westerman
A powerful memoir that explores how one Indigenous woman from the Pilbara transformed psychology
Stan Grant
Stan Grant is talking to his country in a new way. In his most poetic and inspiring work yet, the Wiradjuri writer offers us a means of moving beyond the…
Rebecca Donner
The thrilling and previously unknown story of the woman who led the largest anti-Nazi resistance group in Germany.
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Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough
Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully…
Kasey Chambers
A book of inspirational stories drawn from Kasey Chambers' life and remarkable music career.
Ian Kershaw
The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of history
James Rebanks
A story of friendship, history and redemption on a remote Norwegian island
Helen Garner
Garner's first new work in a decade is a tender portrayal of the relationship between grandmother and grandson, and of that moment on the cusp of adulthood when a boy…
Markus Zusak
What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs? The answer can only be chaos
Robert Manne
The recollections of Australia's leading public intellectual
Mark Raphael Baker
An uplifting memoir on living well in the face of death
Melissa Roberts (ed.), Trevor Watson (ed.)
Australia’s women correspondents tell their stories of working at the frontline around the world.
Deborah Levy
From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writer
Al Pacino
From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full
John Farnham, Poppy Stockell
The Voice Inside is like sitting down with an old friend sharing stories that are both deeply personal and wildly entertaining. Written alongside award-winning filmmaker Poppy Stockell, this is a…
Don Watson
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a remote Aboriginal tribe: a miniature epic of human adaptation, suffering and…
Katy Hessel
The bestselling category killer comes to paperback with a new chapter and a full publicity and marketing campaign
Darren Hayes
Darren Hayes - singer, songwriter, producer, performer and former frontman of the iconic pop duo Savage Garden - takes control of his life story in this candid, unfiltered memoir.
Sue Prideaux
A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin, by the prize-winning author of I Am Dynamite!
John Safran
Australia's most intrepid Jew finds out just how precarious identity can be.
Andrew Quilty
Exceptionally produced and visually striking, This is Afghanistan captures life in a war-torn nation through the lens of one of Australia's great war reporters, Walkley award-winning photo-journalist Andrew Quilty
Gillian Anderson
What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you want, when the lights are off? What do you want, when you are anonymous?
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Tim Minchin
Charlie Mackesy meets Kurt Vonnegut, in the first non-fiction book from Tim Minchin
