Many of the book’s themes, including structural racism, inequalities and poverty are as topical now as 30 years ago.
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Hessom Razavi – an ophthalmologist and poet – explains the workings and wonder of the eye, and the range of emotions he experiences treating diseases caused by modern life or without a cure.
Khin Myint’s memoir explores family trauma and chronic illness, through the lens of his sister’s illness, childhood bullying and a brutal breakup that sparked a court case.
As a child protection worker, psychologist Ariane Beeston had taken babies away from their mothers. Then she had a baby, experiencing bouts of mental illness. Her memoir of this time is compelling.
In Splinters, Leslie Jamison confronts the expectations placed on women, especially mothers – including the dangers of making art, and being more successful at it than the man in their life.
Scott Morrison’s Plans for Your Good is part political memoir, part self-help book, and very strange.
A writer of immense talent, Auster’s legacy bequeaths the power of imagination and the inexhaustible possibilities of language.
This year’s shortlist doesn’t offer much in the way of consolation, but it might shake up how you see the world.
Edwina Preston approaches Nova Weetman’s ‘generous and open’ grief memoir from a place of shared loss.
The South African novelist messes with the line between fiction and non-fiction.
An 8000-km hitchhiking trip is at the heart of Anna Broinowski’s Datsun Angel. Dominic Gordon, in contrast, kicks his young self around Melbourne’s alleys like a half-squashed can of energy drink.
For poet Robert Adamson, the natural world offered a form of deliverance.
Rushdie feared until he dealt with the attempt on his life, he ‘wouldn’t be able to write anything else’. The book is a clearly cathartic story of courage and resilience, but it’s curiously one-eyed.
Adele Dumont’s affecting memoir, The Pulling, draws the reader into the secrecy, shame and impulses behind trichotilllomania, or compulsive hair-pulling.
Award-winning, much-loved Australian writer Peter Goldsworthy is better equipped than most to write an illness memoir: he’s also a GP.
At 27, Robyn Davidson trekked through the Australian outback with four camels and a dog. In her long-awaited memoir we come closer to knowing why she made this journey.
Love and Money, Sex and Death ricochets between sparkling defiance, unravelled grief, and furious hope.
If there is an overriding theme in The Worlds I See, it is that human and artificial intelligence form a double helix.
Stephanie Land’s sequel to her mega-successful debut memoir Maid works as hard as she does – but while its details of low-income single-parent life as a student are valuable, it suffers by comparison.
A Memoir of My Former Self is a celebration of one of Britain’s most beloved and celebrated novelists.
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Adjunct Researcher, English and Writing, University of Tasmania
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Professor of History, School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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