Biography and memoir
Breaking Badly by Georgie Dent
Georgie Dent is an accomplished journalist and public speaker. She is the contributing editor of Women’s Agenda, and tweets on feminist issues. But while her memoir, Breaking Badly, details her career rise as a journalist and public figure over…
Unconditional Love: A Memoir of Filmmaking and Motherhood by Jocelyn Moorhouse
You’ve seen her beautiful movies and you have rejoiced that an Australian female director has won so many awards and accolades for her work. You may have remarked that Jocelyn Moorhouse’s most recent work, The Dressmaker, managed to convey…
The Little Girl on the Ice Floe by Adelaide Bon, translated by Ruth Diver
As the scale and impact of child sexual abuse is finally becoming acknowledged and understood (though tenuously so, as recent comments by a defence QC in a famous court case chillingly reminded us), the realisation that so many people live…
Active Labour: Memoirs of a Working-Class Doctor by Percy Rogers
Active Labour, the title of Percy Rogers’ autobiography, alludes to his work as an obstetrician pioneering the Lamaze method of childbirth, and also his life-long commitment to social activism. His fascinating story takes the reader through a remarkable number…
Happy Never After by Jill Stark
Five years after publishing High Sobriety, Jill Stark returns with Happy Never After, somewhere between a follow-up memoir and investigative journalism.
Where High Sobriety explored Stark’s and the general community’s relationship with alcohol, here she turns her sights…
Always Another Country by Sisonke Msimang
Perth-based South African writer Sisonke Msimang was raised in exile in the 1970s and 80s by her South African freedom-fighter parents. Her childhood and early adulthood were spent in Zambia, Canada, Kenya and the United States. After apartheid, her family…
No Country Woman by Zoya Patel
Zoya Patel was born in Fiji to Indian parents, and came to Australia at three years old. In her thoughtful debut essay collection, she grapples with the idea of identity, and the often confusing experience of identifying as Fijian-Indian, Australian…
Teacher by Gabbie Stroud
Education and teachers are political footballs like no other. Politicians regularly stir up controversy about teachers’ daily working lives: their (excessive) wages; their (generous) holidays; their (misdirected) classroom focus. Parents, understandably anxious to get the best for their kids, are…
The Power of Hope by Kon Karapanagiotidis
A recent decision by the Australian government to cut income support for thousands of asylum seekers has meant the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) has reached breaking point. The ASRC relies on donations and has already almost run out of…
I Will Be Complete by Glen David Gold
I love this book. There, I’ve said it. I love it and this is why.
I Will Be Complete is the autobiography that took years for the author to write because he wasn’t quite sure if all the things that…
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