Biography

The "thought-provoking...must-read" (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped ) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and...

On 27 January 2015, the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson...

'You'll fall head over heels - again and again.' A delightful celebration of love's enduring magic. What draws us to love, binds us in partnership, and keeps us searching for...

Out of the Ashes is the inspirational story of an Australian mother's journey back from hell after the 12 October 2002 Bali bombings. The deadly terrorist attacks on Paddy's Irish...

Thanks for the Mammaries is an honest recount of author Kate Gale's journey with cancer. After being diagnosed at the young age of twenty-seven with breast cancer, she fought a...

Tony Thomas's new essays pulverise "woke" causes including climate doomism; the Aboriginal industry; and the ABC's bias. While society goes mad with political correctness, Tony gives sanity and laughter a...

Susan Cutsforth and her husband, Stuart, are 'ordinary' people living an extraordinary life. They both work full-time: one is a teacher librarian of thirty years, and the other, a middle-level...

When Tania McCartney discovered she'd be moving her husband, self and two kids under the age of five to China for four years, she was 95 per cent horrified. What...

Can we ever really know the truth about our parents? From the popular journalist, podcaster and tweeter about his rescue dog #SophiefromRomania comes a moving memoir in search of the...

There is so much to look forward to in the months ahead - to lengthening evenings, bike rides past fields of sunflowers or wild meadows of bluebells and poppies (just...

Meghan O'Rourke was thirty-two when her mother died of cancer on Christmas Day, 2008. As a writer, even in the depths of her grief, she was fascinated by what she...

In her mid-thirties Karen has it all: a career as a fashion editor, a handsome boyfriend, a fab flat in west London and an array of gorgeous shoes. But when...

A self-empowerment gift book for woman of every age, these quotes and slogans are guaranteed to bring out your inner badass. Celebrating female power and potential, the sayings will inspire...

With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care for her little...

The Godfather is a classic. Not just of Hollywood or America, but in worldwide cinema. Its legacy not only lives on in the 21st century, but it has also transcended...

And you'd never guess that the baddest of the bad-me-would make it out of the prison system and instead of dying in the street as a stone-cold junkie and killer,...

The most talked about memoir is now available in paperback When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished...

For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. Here,...

Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be - as incarnated by trailblazing Black...

Bizarre, bloody and baffling true stories from the hospital ED, told by bestselling author and paramedic Tim Booth. When paramedic Tim Booth finds himself rushing a patient's dead cat to...

What does it mean to be on land taken from others? 'What does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how...

As seen on Australian Story Christopher was seventeen and had everything to live for. He was smart, charismatic, loving, and deeply loved, and a champion rugby player. Yet he was...

'(Alison's) haunting story is one that truly compels telling . Pointed and poignant, sprinkled with breathtaking intuitions . an act of bravery.' - Elle When Jane Alison was a child,...

This is a searing account of the author's physical, spiritual and emotional journey from man to woman. Josie has lived and loved as a man and as a woman. This...

In this compelling and beautifully written impressionistic memoir, Mohamed Khadra recounts stories from his life as a surgeon, from the gruelling years of training to the debilitating sleepless nights on...

A selection from the memoir of Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, the renowned eighteenth-century French portraitist and one of the most important women painters in art history In her memoir,...

Freud's 1915 essay "On Transience" recorded a summertime conversation with two unnamed companions-who were thought to be poet Rainer Maria Rilke and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas- Salom?. In "Freud's Requiem," their...

At the age of twenty, Tracey Leonard went to Calcutta to work as a volunteer in Mother Teresa's home for a the dying and destitute. This story endeavors to bring...

For many years, heartache prevented Nahid Rachlin from turning her sharp novelist's eye inward- to tell the story of how her own life diverged from that of her closest confidante...

As chief of staff, Jean Becker had a ringside seat to the never-boring story of George Herbert Walker Bush's life post-presidency. Full of heart and wisdom, THE MAN I KNEW...

'a quietly impressive book, which does something most celebrity autobiographies shy away from: it seeks the truth and, more often than not, finds it.' - THE MAIL A look at...

'Nemonte's writing is as provocative as it is inspiring' EMMA THOMPSON ' One of the most effective leaders for indigenous rights and environmental justice' LAURENE POWELL JOBS 'I'm here to...

ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2024 'Hurrah for one of our most merciless humorists. Auslander's prose isn't just laudable, it's frightening' David Sedaris From the acclaimed...

______________________ A moving, funny and beautifully written memoir by musician, DJ and writer Ben Watt which carefully chronicles his parents' lives, their marriage and their decline into old age Longlisted...

THE BRAND NEW REVELATORY ROYAL MEMOIR FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR PAUL BURRELL. 'A moving and at times jaw-dropping account - not just of his...

With a quick Google search, she finds him, and both are quick to realize that the passion they felt 20 years prior hasn't faded with time and distance. Samantha knows...

'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian 'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer 'Extraordinary . . ....

Dark, bold, and unapologetically original - Billie Eilish has redefined what it means to be a modern music icon. From her whisper-soft vocals to her powerful, soul-shaking belts, she has...

'This intimate new book will change the way we think about the King of Rock 'n' Roll' Telegraph 'A rollercoaster of love and loss' Washington Post The long-awaited, candid memoir...

In June 1960, several British newspapers received a letter so shocking some thought it was a hoax. Beginning 'Sir, we are homosexuals . . ' , it was signed by...

Educated meets The Queen's Gambit in this extraordinary memoir by International Master and Chess.com co-founder Danny Rensch, who describes his upbringing in an abusive cult - and how chess ended...

"If you think that surviving an airplane crash will get you a free pass for the rest of your life, think again." When young Annette Herfkens, one of the few...

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In this powerful and honest memoir, Laurie Matthew takes the reader with her as she revisits her childhood in 1950s and 1960s Dundee. Raised in a home which consisted of...