Memoir

Introducing a major new Australian literary voice - an unforgettable memoir of the complicated love...

May you always feel at home. After deciding not to have a biological child, Sarah...

Sir Ernest Shackleton's South is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. In...

In Solid Ivory, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Ivory, a partner in the legendary Merchant...

Joan Didion's savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an...

Searching for the Secret River is a great book about the writing of a great...

Two women. Two cultures. And a friendship that freed them both. 'We don't choose where...

Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring...

Growing up Cantonese in the racist outer suburbs of Melbourne was hard enough for Jess...

The hilarious and universally lauded memoir of life as the daughter of a gun-toting, all-American...

A speculative memoir of gender transition and recovery from addiction, refractedthrough pop culture, queer theory,...

Penguin Bloom is an extraordinary true story of recovery, hope and courage as one injured...

A surfer's journey learning to live well with cancer Tim Baker was living the dream....

Three women, three voices, three generations: the Silbery family share their most personal memories and...

In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee-farm. Drawn...

'Breakout star' The New York Times 'A tycoon of her time' The Sydney Morning Herald...

'Not That I'd Kiss a Girl' is truly, deeply, hilarious. Lil dismisses the one out...

A masterful portrait of a major Australian writer, her incandescent poetry and her battles to...

A vivid and original account of the age of vaudeville in Australia and the eccentric...

Shortlisted for the 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Awards- Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction. A genre-defying,...

Selma Blair has played many archetypal roles: gullible ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen...

When I was six, I wrote my first short essay. The title given by the...

'In Bath I lay in a field with headphones on, drunk, and staring at an...

A beautiful and moving memoir about passion, creativity and fearlessness from one of Australia's true...

Selected as one of The Oprah Daily's Best Books of 2022 An extraordinary gift of...

A heartbreaking and magnificent account of a poor and illiterate young West African's odyssey. Ibrahima,...

'Just brilliant... The book of the Decade.' - Tim Flannery I found Dad dead on...

Letters of Great Women is a collection of the most inspiring, illuminating, poignant and compelling...