Item category 1: Biographies & Memoirs

Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Australians, Phillip the colony's first governor, and Bennelong the Yiyura leader. The pair have come to represent the conflict that flared and has never settled. Fullagar's account is als...

The glittering story of April Ashley, model and trans pioneer, and the divorce case which gripped 1960s Britain and defined transgender rights for a generation.

In Bread and Milk, Swedish writer Karolina Ramqvist traces a girlhood through food - that which has the potential to fill her up, but also threatens to consume her. She remember the tangerines eaten in gluttonous longing before her mother's closed bedroom door; her grandmother's rice pudding conn...

Robert Dessaix's testament to a wonderful life is funny, incisive and literary. His voice is completely distinctive and utterly compelling. Robert Dessaix's Chameleon is about everything that matters, a book of memories that flow so freely they seem to happen as we read. Cartwheeling from story t...

Helen Gibson was a woman willing to do anything to give audiences a thrill. Advertised as "The Most Daring Actress in Pictures," Helen emerged in the early days of the twentieth-century silent film scene as a rodeo rider, background actor, stunt double, and eventually one of the era's biggest act...

In this vibrant graphic novel, follow the remarkable journey of Ella Fitzgerald, the "First Lady of Song," as she rises from humble beginnings to become one of the greatest jazz vocalists of all time. Through stunning artwork and compelling storytelling, readers are immersed in the world of jazz,...

Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa is on a quest to describe how she became an all-round performer after a childhood in a quiet and undramatic migrant family. Where did it all go wrong? Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa knows a thing or two about telling a story. From her experience on stages and in front of live and televis...

It is 1993: a serial killer is loose on the streets of Frankston, Victoria. The community is paralysed by fear and a state's police force and national media come to find a killer. Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old Paul Kennedy is searching for something else entirely. He is focused on finishing schoo...

From larger-than-life adventures to vivid and poignant tales of the imagination, Highways and Byways is a collection of 30 stories taking listeners on an enthralling tour (complete with the odd detour) through the raucous, well-lived life of one of this country's most successful and beloved artis...

For over twenty years, Ittay Flescher has worked as an educator, journalist and peacebuilder in Melbourne and Jerusalem. When he woke up on the morning of October 7, 2023 to the sounds of rocket sirens over Jerusalem and later saw the devastation of Gaza in response, the grief and sadness that en...