AUSTRALIAN STORIESBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRTell Me WhyArchie RoachSimon & SchusterAUS | HB $49.99Archie Roach tookalmost a lifetime to findout who he really was.In this intimate andmoving memoir, Roach’sstory is an extraordinary odyssey through loveand heartbreak, family and community, survivaland renewal and the healing power of music.Overcoming enormous odds to find his story andhis people, Roach voices the joy, pain and hopehe found on his path through song to becomethe legendary singer-songwriter and storytellerthat he is today.The AccidentalTour GuideMary MoodySimon & SchusterAUS | PB $35.00Mary Moody hasdesigned and leada full and busy life;journalist, author,presenter, gardener, wife, mother. Along theway she inspired many with her bestsellingmemoirs including Au Revoir and Last Tangoin Toulouse. Five years ago, Mary’s life wasturned upside down when her belovedhusband passed away. Mary’s story of whatcomes next is full of honesty and inspiration,a third act in an extraordinary story.Tea and Scotchwith BradmanRoland PerryABCHB $39.99For many years, RolandPerry regularly met withDon Bradman to discusshis career and life, andin 2014 published his definitive biography onthe great sportsman. This companion volumereveals the man behind the myth, what madehim tick, who and what inspired him, hisgreat sense of humour – and his affection fortea and Scotch. An intimate portrait of theman many regard as the greatest Australiancricketer of all time.Penny WongMargaret SimonsBlack IncPB $34.99Penny Wong is one ofAustralia’s first openlygay politicians andone of the few Senaterepresentations ofAsian Australians. Sheis highly respected by her staff, the public andby people from opposing political parties. Butshe is also intensely private and seldom givesinterviews. This biography is a rare insightinto a person who faced marginalisation andbullying but fought to have her voice, andothers like it, heard.Tall Tales andWee StoriesBilly ConnollyTwo RoadsHB $45.00When he announced hisretirement in December2018, Billy Connolly hadhad a fifty-year careeras one of the world’s most famous comedians.This book brings together some of the very bestof Billy’s stories and monologues and reveals histrue talent in the craft of storytelling, pointing outthe absurd, and exposing the hypocrisy of humanendeavours, and all with his inimitable voice andsense of humanity.The Man in theRed CoatJulian BarnesJonathan CapeHB $39.99The Man Booker Prizewinningauthor of TheSense of an Ending takes us on a rich, wittytour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life storyof the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi – arational and scientific man with a famouslycomplicated private life. A fresh and originalportrait of the Belle Epoque, its heroes andvillains, writers, artists and thinkers, and a lifeof a man ahead of his time.GulpililDerek RiellyMacmillanAustraliaHB $29.99Fifty years ago, Yolnguman David Gulpilil, asixteen-year-old dancer,appeared in the filmWalkabout, forever changing Australia’srelationship with Indigenous Australia.Balancing a subsequent roll call of influentialfilm appearances with his ancient and remoteArnhem cultural heritage often sat uneasily.Derek Rielly, author of Wednesdays with Boboffers a beguiling portrait of the enigmaticDavid Gulpilil.YellowNotebookHelen GarnerText PublishingHB $29.99Helen Garner has kepta diary for almost allher life, which untilnow have been lockedaway, out of bounds ina laundry cupboard. Now, Garner has openedher diaries and invited her readers into theworld behind her novels and works of nonfiction.Recorded with frankness, humour andsteel-sharp wit, these accounts of her everydaylife provide an intimate insight into the work ofone of Australia’s greatest living writers.Buckley’s ChanceGarry LinnellMichael JosephPB $34.99A surviving soldier fromNapoleon’s army WilliamBuckley escaped the gallowsfor convict chains andon arriving in Australia took his chances again.Adopted by an Aboriginal tribe he was initiatedinto their rich and complex culture to famouslyemerge 32 years later carrying a spear and nolonger speaking the English language. Mythical,due to the famous phrase about chances, this ishis fascinating story.Bob HawkeBlanche d’AlpugetSimon & SchusterAUS | HB $59.99D’Alpuget presents adefinitive biography ofBob Hawke, detailinghis life after the primeministership, alongsidenever-before-published photos. This iscombined with updated and revised editionsof her award-winning book from 1982, RobertJ. Hawke: A Biography, and her 2010 Hawke:The Prime Minister, bringing these workstogether for the first time.Your OwnKind of GirlClare BowditchAllen & UnwinPB $29.99ARIA Award-winningsinger and actress ClareBowditch confronts herinner critic in this noholds-barredmemoir. She reveals a childhoodpunctuated by grief, anxiety and compulsion,and tells how these forces shaped her life forbetter and for worse. This is a heartbreaking,wise and at times playful book, a reminder thateven on the darkest of nights, victory is closerthan it seems.The Educationof an IdealistSamantha PowerWilliam Collins UKPB $32.99Samantha Power is aformer US Ambassadorto the United Nations, theyoungest person to everhold that position. She began her illustrious careeras a war correspondent covering the YugoslavWars, before becoming an activist, academic,presidential advisor, and Pulitzer Prize-winningauthor. Power reflects on the forces that haveshaped her both personally and professionally,saying that, “...even in troubled times, we caneach do our part to shape a more humane future.”Finding the Heart of the NationThomas MayorHardie Grant | HB $39.99The Devil’s GripNeal DrinnanSimon & Schuster AUS | PB $32.99MeElton JohnMacmillanHB $44.99Face ItDebbie HarryHarperCollins UKHB $45.00JanisHolly George-WarrenSimon & Schuster UKPB $32.99After the Uluru Statement from the Heart wasformed in May 2017 signatory and campaignerThomas Mayor travelled with the sacred canvas tocommunities across Australia. This special bookdetails his journey and through 20 key interviews makes clear what theUluru Statement is and why it is so important. The book is his gift to thecampaign for Voice, Treaty and Truth and like the Uluru Statement hehopes that all Australians will accept it.The Western District was one of the wealthiestregions on earth at one time, with wool incomesmaking it the seat of power in Australia. TheWettenhall family were world renown for theirsheep but met with generational tragedy in agruesome triple murder in 1992. Neil Drinnantells the story of the incident with a depth ofinsight that recalls Truman Capote’s best, examining rural life, culturalshame, and the corrosive effects of secrets held in fear and repression.Long awaited and eagerlyanticipated this is EltonJohn’s no-holds-barredown account of hisamazing life. No one is more grateful thanElton for all he has achieved and experienced,and true to his living legend stature this isa heartfelt, funny, outrageous and openlyhumble memoir. Beautifully written and fullof Elton’s music, relationships, passions andmistakes, this is a story that will stay with you.Deborah Harry is arguablythe coolest female rockstar ever. This is a visceralmix of soulful storytellingand stunning visuals thatinclude never-before seen photographs, bespokeillustrations and highlights from Deborah’s privatecollection. Add to that the grit, grime, and gloryof downtown 1970’s New York recounted inintimate detail; Face It delivers a truly prismaticportrait well beyond the standard music memoir.Janis Joplin was a white girlfrom Texas who didn’t fit themould in her conservativeoil town. Artistic by nature,her passion and perfectionism honed one ofrock history’s great voices. She was provocative,pushing gender boundaries and women’s place inrock and roll, and her tragic death robbed us toosoon of an artist in ascension.Sand Talk: How IndigenousThinking Can Save the WorldTyson YunkaportaText Publishing | PB $32.99Tyson Yunkaporta’s Sand Talk is an indigenousinterpretation of our world that sees the patternsof creation as central to understanding our place innature. Nature, Yunkaporta says, is not somethingseparate from us, and that construct trades away our connection andresponsibility to the earth. We must learn to live in proper relation to theplanet if we are to escape the idea of saving the environment, in order toembrace our part in this system and ultimately save ourselves.Life: Selected WritingsTim FlanneryText Publishing | HB $39.99By the 2007 Australian of the Year,palaeontologist, explorer and conservationist,Tim Flannery, Life: Selected Writing is hisdefinitive collection of work bringing togetherthirty years of essays, speeches and writings asone of the world’s greatest thinkers and environmental scientists.The perfect book to read as we reflect on society’s past mistakes,and work towards a cleaner, more sustainable future.Year of the MonkeyPatti SmithBloomsbury | HB $29.99From the celebrated performer, artist andaward-winning author of Just Kids and M Train,this is a profound, beautifully realised memoir ofone transformative year. For Patti Smith, writing theyear evolves as one of reckoning with the changesin life: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in thepolitical landscape of America. Illustrated with Smith’ssignature Polaroids, this is a moving and original work.Also available is Just Kids Illustrated, RRP $59.99.Acid for the ChildrenFleaHeadline | PB $32.99Michael Peter Balzary, better known as Flea,was born in Melbourne but as a kid moved tothe USA. When his parents split, Flea and hissister moved in with their mother’s jazz musicianboyfriend, and a life of music, booze and drugsrevealed itself. At Fairfax High School in LA, Fleafell in with Anthony Kiedis, a friendship that launched the Red HotChili Peppers. This is a coming of age story of one of rock’s finest bassplayers, and a tribute to the redemptive power of music.0607
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