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M.E. McGuire
This biography studies the making of writer and artist’s wife Cynthia Nolan, born Violet Cynthia Reed. She was almost forty when she married Sidney Nolan and consigned her past to…
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Ashleigh Wilson
The first authorized biography of this iconic twentieth-century artist, illustrated with classic artworks, rare notebook sketches and candid family photos.
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George Gittoes
The illustrated autobiography of Australian peace warrior and artist George Gittoes.
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Marie Munkara
Heartbreaking, darkly funny and deeply moving, Of Ashes and Rivers that Run to the Sea is a fearless account of being a young woman caught between two worlds.
Arnold Zable
Henry Nissen was a champion boxer, the boy from Amess Street in working-class Carlton who fought his way up to beat some of the world’s best in the 1970s. Now…
Cat Thao Nguyen
Told through the bright and unflinching eyes of Cat Thao, a daughter born in a refugee camp, We Are Here is a memoir that begins in 1975 with her family’s…
Timothy Conigrave
At an all-boys school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of the football team. So begins a relationship that weathers disapproval, separation and…
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Quentin Kenihan
Quentin Kenihan is living proof that superheroes don’t need capes, just the right attitude. FOREWORD BY RAY MARTIN
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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
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.
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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.
Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis
I want our past to be recorded for future generations to read and know and understand how life was for us desert Aboriginal people and how we live our lives…
Drusilla Modjeska
A stunning memoir from one of Australia’s most highly acclaimed writers.
Beginning with the disastrous events of the night before her fortieth birthday, Drusilla Modjeska looks back on the past…
Lesley Williams, Tammy Williams
Two remarkable women tell an inspirational story about the power of family and pursuing your dreams. Lesley Williams is forced to leave Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement and her family at a…
Kate Grenville,Kate Grenville
This vivid, intimate, narrative memoir celebrates the life of best-selling and award-winning novelist Kate Grenville’s mother. Now a gorgeous paperback
Lesley Harding,Kendrah Morgan
Much has been written about the lives and art of Heide, but finally the remaining members of the inner circle have entrusted the truth to be told through this intimate…
