An 8000-km hitchhiking trip is at the heart of Anna Broinowski’s Datsun Angel. Dominic Gordon, in contrast, kicks his young self around Melbourne’s alleys like a half-squashed can of energy drink.
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For poet Robert Adamson, the natural world offered a form of deliverance.
Rushdie feared until he dealt with the attempt on his life, he ‘wouldn’t be able to write anything else’. The book is a clearly cathartic story of courage and resilience, but it’s curiously one-eyed.
Adele Dumont’s affecting memoir, The Pulling, draws the reader into the secrecy, shame and impulses behind trichotilllomania, or compulsive hair-pulling.
Award-winning, much-loved Australian writer Peter Goldsworthy is better equipped than most to write an illness memoir: he’s also a GP.
At 27, Robyn Davidson trekked through the Australian outback with four camels and a dog. In her long-awaited memoir we come closer to knowing why she made this journey.
Love and Money, Sex and Death ricochets between sparkling defiance, unravelled grief, and furious hope.
If there is an overriding theme in The Worlds I See, it is that human and artificial intelligence form a double helix.
Stephanie Land’s sequel to her mega-successful debut memoir Maid works as hard as she does – but while its details of low-income single-parent life as a student are valuable, it suffers by comparison.
A Memoir of My Former Self is a celebration of one of Britain’s most beloved and celebrated novelists.
Alex Miller is a man of humble origins, adventurous journeys, and a slow-burning but ultimately impressive literary career.
Two new memoirs make blind writer Amanda Tink ‘very proud’ of her community – and share the stories of blind writers, performers, teachers, activists and inventors.
As a diva, Streisand has consistently defied instructions not to do something by doubling up her efforts.
In Question 7, Richard Flanagan writes of the contingencies of history, and troubles the distinction between truth and fabrication.
Britney Spears’ memoir illustrates once again the potential lifelong damage that can be caused by being a child star.
My Life as a Jew is an honest and very personal book about a growing sense of Jewish identity, but it has its contradictions.
The book shares secrets – Mantel’s own alongside those of the writers, historical figures and places she describes.
Jessica Kirkman introduces readers to her Deaf grandparents’ experience – and to Deaf culture – in her memoir. And Sam Drummond recalls growing up with pseudoachondroplasia (a form of dwarfism) in his.
So many authors are creating Substack newsletters – from Bri Lee’s magazine-like News & Reviews, to George Saunders’ writing tips and Hanif Kureishi’s reflections on being paralysed. But can it last?
The hunt for sleep has become a global industry, with apps, drugs, self-help remedies. In a new book, author Marie Darrieussecq contemplates the curse of insomnia.
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