Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Non-Fiction , Open Access , Jul 2024
Sima Samar was born into a polygamous family, with her father having two wives. She quickly came to understand the ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Non-Fiction , Open Access , Jul 2024
When followers of Hillsong, a Pentecostal church, became disenchanted with Brian Houston, the global senior ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Non-Fiction , Jul 2024
We all love a good survival story, the kind where a character is pitted against seemingly insurmountable odds, ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Non-Fiction , Open Access , Jul 2024
On Thursday 21 March at Flinders University Anna Goldsworthy launched Gillian Dooley’s latest book, She Played and ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Non-Fiction , Jun 2024
Letter writing is almost a lost art, but this collection of letters exchanged for 40 years between two of ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Non-Fiction , Open Access , Jun 2024
Salman Rushdie was attacked on 12 August 2022 by a young man with a knife and an ideological fixation that ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Non-Fiction , Open Access , Jun 2024
If ever there was a manual for surviving a marriage breakup at 60, Suddenly Single at Sixty is it.
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Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Jun 2024
Unless you’re a very dedicated cineaste you might not know Ed Zwick’s name. He created the TV show Thirtysomething ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Non-Fiction , May 2024
It’s tempting to assign a binary split to fiction and non-fiction. If fiction is fabrication, then non-fiction ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Non-Fiction , Open Access , May 2024
After Edward VIII abdicated, he spent the rest of his life trying to find another good sinecure. At one point he ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Non-Fiction , Open Access , May 2024
In May 2023, Gabrielle Carey died suddenly, and Australia lost a wonderful writer. She had burst into view in the ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Non-Fiction , Open Access , May 2024
This narrative reads like we’re in Victorian England, with cosy fireside chats, serving staff and endless cups of ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Open Access , May 2024
Jackson has used her memories of growing up on a military base in Singapore in the 1970s as a springboard into ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Non-Fiction , Open Access , May 2024
Yuan Yang was born in China but moved to the UK when she was four. She returned to China in 2016 as a journalist ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Non-Fiction , May 2024
Nova Weetman usually writes YA fiction. She was writing another YA novel when this adult non-fiction book demanded ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Open Access , Apr 2024
Tanya Plibersek’s parents arrived in Australia from Slovenia as part of the post-war immigration scheme. The ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Open Access , Apr 2024
Wayne Bergmann is a proud Nyikina man from the Kimberley region of WA. The title of this memoir came from the ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Apr 2024
Canadian-born journalist Ham is herself a newcomer to Australia in a move made by choice. The plight of refugees ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Open Access , Apr 2024
About halfway through Wired for Music, classically trained cellist and sleep-deprived new mother, Adriana Barton, ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Non-Fiction , Open Access , Apr 2024
The title, Kintsugi, is a metaphoric insight into the author’s perspective on her own life. Kintsugi is the ...
Biography & True Stories , Good Reading Magazine , Non-Fiction , Apr 2024
The horrific event that prompted American Mother was the reason our family decided to no longer watch the nightly ...