Category: Memoirs
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America--the first African Americ ...Show more
Category: Memoirs
A memoir of iconic Australian singer and performer John Paul Young. John Paul Young is one of the most iconic artist in Australian music's history, with over four million world wide album sales and numerous awards which garnered him an induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2009. Sharing not only music ...Show more
Category: Memoirs
The inspirational story of Jackie Gillies - star of The Real Housewives of Melbourne and I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! - and one of Australia's most-sought after psychic mediums Sassy and adventurous, Jackie Gillies devours life with style and a smile - and lives it to the shiny brim. Well know ...Show more
Category: Memoirs
Tracks meets Wild in this account of Chinese Australian journalist Monica Tan's 6 month odyssey though outback Australia. 'Will I ever really belong to this country? As a Chinese Australian? As a non-Indigenous Australian? . . . I was 32 years old and barely knew the country of my birth. It was time to ...Show more
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
A circle of pine trees, a sagging wire fence, and a roof that was once painted red. 'There it is,' said Dad. In 1953, after doctors prescribed fresh country air for his health, Scottish-born Robert Wales uprooted his young family from the city life of Sydney and set out to establish ...Show more
Category: Memoirs
Twenty women share their incredible stories of surviving and thriving in the remote Australian 'Gulf Country', near the Gulf of Carpentaria. Gulf women are self-sufficient, generous, and can cope with almost anything that life and the environment throws at them: floods, drought, sickness, emergencies. W ...Show more
Category: Memoirs
At 24, life was good for Georgie Dent. After graduating with top marks she landed her dream job at a prestigious Sydney law firm and moved in with a boyfriend she adored. She had the world at her feet and no right to break. But she did. Badly. Within a year Georgie was unemployed, back living with her p ...Show more
Category: Memoirs
Cattlemen in Pearls introduces us to 28 remarkable Australian women, spanning three generations, whose love for the land and livestock is ingrained in their genetic profile. These powerful, surprising and moving mini-biographies recount tales of gritty determination, direst tragedy and glorious courage. ...Show more
Category: Memoirs
Funny woman, Instagram star and international comedy sensation, Celeste Barber's Challenge Accepted! is a hilarious and outspoken guide to life, unwanted gas and how to rock a sexy scar. It's real, like totally, really real. Actor, writer and comedian, Celeste Barber is one very funny woman - not to men ...Show more
Category: Memoirs
Scorching, self-scouring: a young woman finds her steel and learns to wield it' - Helen Garner'Brutal, brave and utterly compelling...I can't remember a book I devoured with such intensity, nor one that moved me so profoundly' Rebecca Starford, author of Bad Behaviour and co-founder of Kill Your Darling ...Show more
Category: Memoirs
People of African descent have been in Australia for at least 200 years, yet their stories are largely missing from Australian writing. Australians of the African diaspora have arrived here in many different ways- directly from the continent; via the Caribbean, the Americas and the United Kingdom; makin ...Show more
Category: Memoirs
Walkley award winning ABC journalist, Kerry O'Brien, reflects on social and political upheavals he has witnessed and the personalities who have made history.
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