A selection of biographies

Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you've scraped together enough for the ticket. You have to build the whole bloody engine, with nothing but a spoon and hand-me-down psychological distress. Violence, treachery and cruelty run through the generational veins of Rick Morton's fam...

A poetically written and bitterly sweet memoir about nature, death, life in Palestine, and the universal concept of home. Palestinian writer Hussein Barghouthi was in his late forties when he was diagnosed with lymphoma. He had feared it was HIV, so when the cancer diagnosis was confirmed, he lef...

With much new material on the betrayal of the Frank family and their attempts to leave for the US, this updated edition is now the definitive biography of Anne Frank.

Prince William is destined one day to be king. Determined to serve his country as his grandmother, the Queen has so selflessly done for seven decades, William is the epitome of a loving husband to Catherine, and a devoted father to their three children: George, Charlotte and Louis. In public, Wil...

The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being overlooked in the music industry, and the stories that inspired her enduring songs. Lucinda Williams's rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-cla...

BIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. One of the most high-profile defections from The Church of Scientology; this is the story a father who wants his son back. It's just that his son - David Miscavige - grew up to be the leader of one of the world's most controversial Churches. It was Ronald Miscavige Sr. who int...

On 12 October 2002, the beginning of a series of bombings occurred in Bali. The attacks, in the busy entertainment precinct of Kuta, were carried out by terrorist network Jemmah Islamiya. The attacks claimed the lives of 202 people, including 88 Australians, and wounded 240, including me. This b...

In early 2019, Rick Morton was diagnosed with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - which, as he says, is just a fancy way of saying that one of the people who should have loved him the most during childhood didn't. So, over the course of twelve months, he went on a journey to rediscover love....

In 1977, twenty-seven-year-old Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea. A life of almost constant travelling followed. The only terrain she had no interest in exploring was the past. In Unfinished Woman Davidson turns at last to explo...