How We Love: Notes on a life by Clementine Ford
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys. There is love in this place, just like there is love everywhere we care to look for it. There is beauty and there is hope and there is a boy and there is a mothe ...Show more
Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good by Tina Turner
Category: Memoir
'Each of us is born, I believe, with a unique mission, a purpose in life that only we can fulfill. We are linked by a shared responsibility: to help our human family grow kinder and happier.' Tina Turner, one of the world's most beloved artists and entertainers, reveals the deep wisdom that underpins he ...Show more
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the ...Show more
Jackson's Track Revisited - History, Remembrance and Reconciliation by Carolyn Landon
Category: Memoir
In the late 1990s, Carolyn Landon collaborated with Daryl Tonkin to write his memoir of life at Jackson's Track. It was the story of a White man and his Aboriginal family, of family ties, hard work, happiness, betrayal, racial prejudice and ultimately, from Daryl's point of view, tragic dispossession. S ...Show more
Just Don't Be a D**khead: And other profound things I've learnt by Kasey Chambers
Category: Memoir
A book of inspirational stories drawn from Kasey Chambers' life and music career. Kasey has stayed true to herself through painful and challenging times as well as good times that have required a level head. Despite all the success, Kasey has been no stranger to tragedy, but her self-belief and the supp ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir (HB) by Sam Neill
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Ca ...Show more
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager: Life in the Outback and a Whole Lot More by Sally Warriner
Category: Memoir
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager is a rollicking memoir of one woman’s life on outback cattle stations, and an homage to the many unsung women like her. It was the 1980s and Sally Warriner was in her early 20s when she returned from a backpacking sojourn and hitchhiked to Australia’s far nort ...Show more
The Empty Honour Board by Martin Flanagan
Category: Memoir
A prison diary, a story of brotherly love, a journey of redemption, Martin Flanagan's compelling book about his boarding school days goes inside an experience many have had but few have talked about. In 1966, at the age of 10, Martin Flanagan was sent to a Catholic boarding school in north-west Tasmani ...Show more
The Summertime of Our Dreams by Michael Pascoe
Category: Memoir
To be invited to walk beside a dying man, a good man, to be asked into his mind as its existence is counted down, to be offered his gaze into the abyss, to know another soul in the honesty of the deathbed. A privilege. Here is a moving and unusual memoir by Michael Pascoe about his relationship with Ji ...Show more
Rememberings by Sinead O'Connor
Category: Memoir
An intimate and revelatory memoir from the iconic, acclaimed singer-songwriter. Senead O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her landmark recording of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U made her a global icon. She outraged millions when she tore up a photogra ...Show more
Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Lucinda Williams's rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father--a poet, a textbook salesman, a professor, a lover of parties--got a new job, totalling twelve different places by the time she was 18. Her mother s ...Show more
Unlovable: A memoir from the voice of Savage Garden by Darren Hayes
Category: Memoir
Darren Hayes - singer, songwriter, producer, performer and former frontman of the iconic pop duo Savage Garden - takes control of his life story in this candid, unfiltered memoir. Darren Hayes was always a storyteller. As a child, in suburban Queensland in the 1970s, he told himself he was going to be ...Show more