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Catharine Lumby
The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters.
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Walter Isaacson
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era-a rule-breaking visionary who helped…
Douglas Adams
Over 60 boxes full of notebooks, research, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches, to-do lists, hard drives and even poems…Welcome to the incredible archive of Douglas Adams.
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Bernie Taupin
An evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, the lyrical master and longtime collaborator of Elton John.
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Donna Leon
The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade
Miriam Margolyes
Award-winning actress, bestselling author of her memoir This Much is True, and Britain's naughtiest national treasure is back, and she's as outrageous as ever.
Hannah Diviney
A defiant coming of age story about a young woman coming to terms with all that she is, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Natasha Walter
From the acclaimed writer and thinker, a moving memoir about losing her mother as well as honouring the legacy of a family whose members struggled bravely against some of the…
Alisha Aitken-Radburn
A memoir about identity and authenticity in the smoke-and-mirror worlds of politics, reality TV and social media, from Bachelor star Alisha Aitken-Radburn.
Sir Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career.
Lorin Clarke
A family memoir about the beloved comedian John Clarke by his daughter, writer Lorin Clarke. A warm, witty and uplifting book about how our families make us who we are..
Graeme Davison
Four Centuries of a British-Australian Family
Deborah FitzGerald
The first definitive biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem 'My Country.'
Rose Ellis
The untold story of the uncompromising and fearless woman who captivated mid-20th century Australia with her spectacular acts of defiance.
Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo
A powerful father–daughter story of a young woman’s political and social coming of age, and a portrait of life on the Left during a time of great social change
Jonny Steinberg
From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandela's relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
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Joe Klein
The classic biography of the hugely influential American folk singer who inspired a generation of songwriters, including Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.
Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn would like to say a brief word about a few of the friends who have shaped his life - ‘before my memory goes’. Some have had a profound…
Jeff Apter
Don't Dream It's Over is the first biography to focus exclusively on Neil Finn, the man who wrote the timeless hits of Split Enz and Crowded House.
Erin Riley
An exhilarating, thought-provoking and joyful debut that asks how we create our identities and how we can transcend them.
Patrick Barkham
The definitive biography of Roger Deakin, beloved author of cult classic Waterlog
Stephanie Danler
From the author of the international bestseller Sweetbitter, a memoir of survival, starting over, and love in all its complicated guises.
Ryan Cropp
The fascinating biography of a brilliant man who captured the nation's imagination and boldly showed Australians who we were and how we could change
Simone Amelia Jordan
A rallying call for anyone who dreams big. And a deeply personal story of family, culture and music from Australia's most successful hip-hop journalist, a high-achieving Lebanese-Australian woman who refused…
Rachel Louise Snyder
Following the acclaimed No Visible Bruises, a piercing account of the author's childhood in an Evangelic Christian community, her teenage escape, and her career as a reporter at the…
Marie Darrieussecq
Sleepless is both a personal account of the author's inability to sleep and a poetic survey of a range of artists and others who have suffered from chronic insomnia-a book…
David McAllister
It’s not all tutus and tiaras: an in-depth look into the gritty and transformative world of ballet.
Stuart Coupe
The story of how a gangly, music-obsessed kid from Tassie did everything and met everyone - Shake Some Action is a rip-snorting rock 'n' roll ride through a life of…
M. John Harrison
One of our greatest and most original living writers sets out the perils of the writing life with joyful provocation
Peter Rees
A heartfelt look at the life of a man who placed his role as a father with an autistic son above his service to the country as deputy prime minister
Richard Harris
Diving doctor on the Thai Cave Rescue (now a Netflix series) and former joint Australian of the Year explores the stories of other people who regularly risk their lives and…
Jeanne Ryckmans
A darkly funny memoir and investigation into the charms and crimes of the untrustworthy.
Brendan Watkins
A stunning memoir of one man's search for his birth parents, which uncovered an astonishing global scandal at the heart of the Catholic Church.
Andrew Sneddon
Hailed as a real-life Boy Swallows Universe, a 'bold, brutal and unforgettable' memoir of growing up in the criminal underbelly of Queensland's Gold Coast in the 1980s.
Martin Flanagan
A prison diary, a story of brotherly love, a journey of redemption, Martin Flanagan's compelling book about his boarding school days goes inside an experience many have had but few…
Ben Mckelvey
Combining autobiography, reportage and science, Ben Mckelvey tells his personal story, along with research about psychology, physiology and neuropathology
Oliver Twist
Powerful, heartbreaking and full of humour, Jali marks the arrival of a dazzling new voice.
Karen Kirsten
If we seal off the past, how will we ever know the truth?
In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland, a Jewish child was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a…
Frieda Hughes
'He was a hectic, unprincipled bird, but it was impossible not to love him' ... a memoir of love, obsession and feathers
Eileen Kramer
Australia's oldest and most graceful dancer shares not just how to live a long life but also how to live a great life, full of wonder and joy.
Luiz Schwarcz
A memoir of a short childhood and a long depression
David Meagher
I was a victim of child sexual abuse. It occurred more than forty years ago, when I was just thirteen years old. This is the story about what happened to…
Amy Key
Is it possible life without romantic love isn't so bad? An essential memoir about building life on your own terms
Shoji Morimoto
The true life adventures of Shoji Morimoto, who launched a business in which he rents himself out to do nothing in Japan.
Anna Funder
A blazing, genre-bending masterpeice from one of the most inventive writers of our time.
Shaneel Lal
A stunning, heart-breaking yet defiant memoir by activist, model and social media sensation Shaneel Lal.
Robert Skinner
I’d Rather Not is about work, escape and that something more we all need.
Jonathan Eig
A major new biography of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life
