Bestsellers

Police, Protest and the Pursuit of Freedom How I became an abolitionist — a memoir of Black Lives Matter In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder and the ensuing uprising,...

A heartfelt and funny graphic novel memoir from one of the first Black female cartoonists to be published in the New Yorker, when she was just 22 years old.When Liz...

In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler's road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better...

An African in Greenland Translated by James Kirkup The gripping true story of one man's ten-year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle — a rare...

On Feminism, Race, Faith and BelongingA collection of fascinating, highly relatable memoir-style essays about coming of age and finding your feet as a second-generation Australian Muslim.As a Pakistani-Australian teenager growing...

A coming-of-age memoir by a Colombian-Cuban woman about shaping lessons from home into a new, queer lifeIn this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernandez chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian...

A Black Woman’s Story The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown — the first female leader of the Black Panthers "I have all the guns and all the money. I can...

Winner of the 2021 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Non-fictionShortlisted for the 2021 Wainwright Prize”I knew in every bone of my body, in every fibre of my being,...

The ultimate book about growing up in Australia — a choice selection of wonderful stories and recollections This special collection is the perfect addition to Black Inc.'s definitive 'Growing Up'...

Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville A spellbinding story about love, faith, the search for utopia — and the oftendevastating cost of idealism. It’s the late 1960s,...

Translated by Zaman StanizaiAn Afghan Mother's Letter to her SonAn exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. How...

Escape from China's modern-day concentration camps A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes — and the story of one woman's fight to survive. I will never...

Ai Weiwei — one of the world's most famous artists and activists — tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the...

YOU DON'T CONQUER A MOUNTAIN. YOU SURRENDER TO IT ONE STEP AT A TIME. Despite a high-flying career, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado knew she was hanging by a thread. Deep in the...

These Black notes may land in silence or a tone, a sound,a pitch, a record, or an observation made with care; thesenotes might just reach you across distance, time andspace,...

Unlearning Race A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME 'MUST-READ' A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is...

The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education An extraordinary memoir of a young woman from Afghanistan and her struggle to rise above the circumstances into which...

Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tenderness and domestic strife, tropical sounds and sights as well as poverty. Growing up, she...

Lessons on Fear, Intimacy and ConnectionA blend of memoir, essay and affirmations exploring love in all its forms.Be Not Afraid of Loveis a stunning collection of interconnected essays and affirmations...

‘One of the most original and talented young writers we have.’ — Sathnam Sanghera An extraordinarily candid personal account of the ups and downs wrought by money, We Need To...

A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, Laura immigrates to Texas, where her hometown is...

A child's odyssey to reunite with his parents on the other side of the border Young Javier dreams of eating orange sherbet ice cream with his parents in the United...

A diary of my sexual awakening...at thirty-three?!!Asuka is neither a woman nor a man — they're X-gender (a non-binary identity)-and they've realized they like women! Okay, now what? Adult films...

A Stolen Generations story of astounding courage — three Aboriginal girls, taken from their mothers, escape barefoot back to their beloved homeland in East Pilbara, with an introduction by Tara...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in MemoirA Best Book of the Year: New York Times, Vogue, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, TIME, Rolling Stone When Hua Hsu first meets...

Natural histories of place, identity and homeReflecting on family, identity and nature, belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a...

Writer and columnist Benjamin Law revisits his joyous and much-loved family memoir, spilling the tea on his family's latest anticsThe book that inspired the major SBS television series!Meet the Law...

Losing everything and finding Australia I lost my possessions, my salary, my status, my career, my country. And in that fall, I gained everything. Bhutan is known as the land...

A Young Readers Edition of We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders An empowering young readers edition of We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders, the memoir by Women’s March...

The Shakurs and the Nation They Created A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK An NPR Best Book of the Year • Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Longlisted for...

A short, powerful memoir from one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century In this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a...

Through seventeen powerful testimonies, Syrian-Palestinian poet Ramy Al-Asheq's Ever SInce I Did Not Die is a poignant autobiographical journey that vividly depicts what it means to live through war. The...

Memories of Girlhood One of bell hooks' foundational works introduced to the UK for the first time. 'With the emotion of poetry, the narrative of a novel, and the truth...

How one Indigenous woman from the remote Pilbara transformed psychology A powerful memoir that explores how one Indigenous woman from the Pilbara transformed psychology From humble beginnings in the remote...

A Palestinian prisoner's memoir of thirty years' captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts himThis is the story of a wall that somehow chose me...

"One of the finest, most eloquent and painfully honest memoirs of the Palestinian exile and displacement."–New Statesman An intimate memoir of the 1948 Nakba, exile and the dispossession of Palestinian...

Further conversations with my psychiatrist The sequel to the Sunday Times and international-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur When Baek Sehee started recording her sessions with...

A POWERFUL DEBUT FROM AN EXTRAORDINARY VOICE, GENTLE IN THE FACE OF EXTREMITY Khin's sister Theda has a strange illness and a euthanasia drug locked in a box under her...

A journey through Torres Strait Islander culture and identity, past and present'My people are expert navigators, adventurers, innovators, ambassadors, teachers, storytellers, performers, strategists, chefs and advocates for change. The blood...

‘In all of the madness stood two addicts: one severely addicted to alcohol and drugs, and the other just as addicted to the addict… In my sickness ― the sickness...

Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE (affectionately known as Aunty Marge) was a significant Aboriginal activist and one of the first Aboriginal women to publish for mainstream audiences. If Everyone Cared (1977) was a...

A Year at Yumbarra 'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.'From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story...

A heartbreaking and powerful story of a mother's quest for connection with her lost son 150,000 adoptions took place in Australia between 1950 and 1975. It is estimated that one...

A Memoir of Words and Wars A STORY OF SURVIVAL, AND A MEDITATION ON DESIRE AND LOSS, LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE In Abbas El-Zein's new memoir, conflicts abound - either tragic...

A brilliant, devastating memoir about the very act of writing memoir, and what it means to bear witness to atrocityBorn in, and named after, Thailand's Khao-I-Dang refugee camp, Y-Dang Troeung...

A journey from religion to reasonIn much of the Muslim world, religion is the central foundation upon which family, community, morality, and identity are built. The inextricable embedment of religion...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'I gobbled it in one weekend and encourage everyone — mother, or otherwise — to do the same' — Pandora Sykes 'Searing' — Dolly Alderton 'This...

The bestselling memoir of 2014 Nobel Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai, the school girl who stood up to the Taliban. In 2009 Malala Yousafzai began writing a blog on BBC Urdu...

2021 EditionText by Miss Black CatA visual memoir like no other, Once Upon a Hong Kong is a stirring collection of personal work by artist-illustrator Don Mak that captures scenes...

From AFL stardom to attempting to take his own life, Majak Daw's is a football story like no other. Born in Sudan, Majak Daw fled to Egypt with his family...