Memoir

If we live life on other people's terms, we will inevitably be paralysed into inaction....

Laurie Woolever - co-author of bestsellers Appetites and Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography - traces...

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A surprising, thoughtful and deeply personal exploration of what it means to be a sociopath.'...

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After spending a year with self-help books, Marianne Power's next challenge is learning how to...

The recollections of Australia's leading public intellectual Robert Manne is one of Australia's most profound...

'Extraordinary ... one of the most moving and uplifting stories of the war' Keith Lowe...

'A moving testament to the life and work of an extraordinary woman and the country-changing...

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