Biography
TIMPANO, Jessa
Five women confront abuse, loss, betrayal, and hardship. Through courage and resilience, they rebuild their lives and discover that healing, hope, and strength can emerge from even the darkest experiences.
CLAESSEN, Rohan
What we lost at the pier, we carried for a lifetime.
SUMMERILL, Roger
In a long and successful career, Roger Summerill worked with many of the biggest names in Australian radio—as an announcer and later in station management. In this frank and revealing memoir Roger chronicles his life and career.
BONFIELD, Niki
Niki invites readers into the rich, complex inner world she once tried to hide.
LEE, Warwick
An insightful and unforgettable account of a young boy’s journey through family struggles, history, war and a nation’s aspiration to free itself from colonialism.
AY, Nicole
Life is short, but sometimes life can be dreadfully long.
WELFORD, John
The story revolves around a town in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province, called Nakuru. The book opens with a recollection of a perilous childhood journey to Nakuru and the memoir finishes in that place in 1971, where Spen died. There is a postscript that details what happened to the rest of his family after that.
LAMPARD, Kerry
Tip of the Spear is split into two parts. The first is a memoir of Kerry’s experience with patrols in the SAS as a forward scout. The second is three light-hearted fictional short stories.
HUGHES, Ken & SHAW, Stuart
THE STURT FOOTBALL CLUB HISTORICAL AND MEMORABILIA SOCIETY are proud to present our second Volume of We Are Sturt.
SKINNER-SMITH, Simone
“Ever dreamt of packing it all up, hitting the open road and living your best life?”
DOLLING, Susie
The Days Before You Went Away is a raw and tender caregiver memoir about complex family dynamics, anticipatory grief, denial, and the heartbreak of losing a parent.
DUFFY, Faith
Through Teddy’s eyes offers a rare glimpse into a crucial period for the Aboriginal people of Tennant Creek and will resonate with anyone interested in Australian cultural and historical memoirs.
MARTIN, Gab
This memoir is a reflection on the assumptions we make about ourselves and others, and how those assumptions shape who we become. Through her own experiences, Gab explores what might be possible if we are brave enough to step outside them.
MILLS, David
In his book Coconut Kid David Mills tells some of his stories. David was born in 1941 in Cranbrook, WA. At the age of four months he was taken from his family and spent the next 8 years at Parkerville Children’s Home not even aware that he had older siblings.
ROBIN, Giselle
We are living in a pandemic of ‘mental illness’. Hospitals are overfilled, and people a are suffering or even dying from the side effects of medication.
HEYES, Tonya
The crash did more than bend metal and scatter glass — it unraveled the woman I had spent years becoming.
REID, Dianne
Walking the River of Loss, and Finding the Body Again.
SMITH, John H
The story of a man whose forgotten legacy and “chequered career” reveal a complex and intriguing life in early Australian history.
VREDENBREGT, Rick
‘Stazza, The Football Career of Chris Stasinowsky; Mercurial Talent, Complex Soul’, is an in-depth analysis of an Australian rules football career that included time in Western Australia and South Australia at the peak of top-level competition Australia wide pre-VFL/AFL national league expansion.
UNG, Tim
HROUGH PADDYFIELD AND MINEFIELD is a powerful memoir of survival, loss and resilience in the shadow of Cambodia’s darkest years under the brutal regime of the Khmer Rouge.