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The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her...

Reflections on Self-Delusion A Times book of the yearA Guardian book of the year What happens to our behaviour when we live most of our lives online? What does it...

A most powerful memoir of how we inherit violence and trauma, but also strength, resilience and joy 'I am from a family of strong women.' Amani Haydar suffered the unimaginable...

Long before Ruhi fell pregnant, she knew she was never going to be the 'good Indian daughter' her parents demanded. But when the discovery that she is having a girl...

A MemoirA daughter born between two cultures — the US and Japan — grapples with the question: where is my home, and how will I recognise it when I reach...

A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home 'Refugees are like seeds that scatter in the wind, and land in different soils that become their reluctant homes' my mother once told me. As...

A Black spirit memoir A raw exploration of identity that shatters boundaries and explodes the way we think about the idea of the self. In letters addressed to their friends,...

TRANSLATED BY ANJALI SINGH Now in one volume, both parts of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution.The brilliant graphic memoir...

The second volume of legendary animation director Hayao Miyazaki’s career memoir continues with essays, interviews, and discussions about some of his most popular films, including Spirited Away and Ponyo. In...

Throughout her adolescence, Ashley Ford doesn't know how to deal with the worries that keep her up at night. If only she could turn to her father for his advice...

Translated by Aneesa Abbas HigginsA haunting, lyrical French bestseller set in Paris and Algiers about desire, shame and violenceIn All Men Want to Know the author traces her blissful childhood...

A powerful, searing account of one woman's struggle with psychosis in the wake of her firstborn child, that strikes at the heart of our preconceptions about what it means to...

A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma A searing memoir of reckoning and healing which investigates the little-understood science behind complex PTSD. Every cell in my body is filled with...

A Family Story from Gaza The story of a family over the past 100 years, starting in Palestine under British rule and ending in Redland Bay in Queensland. Samah Sabawi...

Japan's most popular filmmaker speaks on life, love, and the world of anime. The Starting Point...of the Greatest Career in Animation History In the first two decades of his career,...

Stories from a South African Childhood #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and...

Translated by Jessica Powell With unguarded humor and breathtaking directness, Nine Moons questions the dogmas, upends the stereotypes, and embraces all the terror, beauty, and paradoxes of the propagation of...

WINNER of the NSW Premier's Literary Award Multicultural NSW Award 2017 Shortlisted for the Nita B Kibble Award 2018 Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2017 Shortlisted...

In 1966, the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti, then twenty-two, left his country to return to university in Cairo. A year later came the Six Day War and Barghouti, like many...

How an unfulfilled daughter of a tiger mother went way off script We all grow up with rules. Do this, be this, don't be that. Qin Qin was all about...

By George Takei, Justin Eisenger and Steven Scott, illustrated by Harmony Becker George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal...

A memoir of a gay Muslim's journey to acceptanceA Dutiful Boy is Mohsin's personal journey from denial to acceptance — a revelatory memoir about the power of love, belonging, and...

How do you find yourself without losing your family? A memoir about growing up, breaking the rules and negotiating culture, from a new Australian voice. A hilarious, heartwarming memoir of...

'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman's terrifying struggle to avoid...

Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of...

The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Koh's parents...

A New York Times Notable Book An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. Michele Harper is a female, African...

THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERTHE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's...

A memoir with bite Growing up Cantonese in the racist outer suburbs was hard enough for Jess Ho, but add in a dysfunctional family who only ever made peace over...

A memoir of empowerment, community and hope A powerful memoir about a girl from Africa whose near-death experience sparked a dream that changed the world. She squeezes my hand and...

'A brave new voice that reaches out to us all' — Miranda Doyle, author of A Book of Untruths 28-year-old Zeba Talkhani charts her experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia...

The true life adventures of Shoji Morimoto, who launched a business in which he rents himself out to do nothing in Japan. Today, I’m starting a ‘rent a person who...

Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary An electric memoir about what it means to live outside the gender boundaries imposed on us by society, from the award-winning trans writer and...

The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing Black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine EvaristoBeing denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office...

From the Pulitzer-prize winning playwright behind IN THE HEIGHTS comes a spellbinding coming-of-age story, and a vibrant and life-affirming celebration of the women who guide us. Born in Philadelphia to...

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Jackie Huggins, Is That You, Ruthie? is a remarkable memoir that recounts, with characteristic humour and honesty, a dormitory girl's...

Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness A REESE'S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICKTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This book is my story about growing up in...

The heart-rending story of a child 'Tampa' refugee who grew up to become a Fulbright scholar, highlighting the plight and potential of refugees everywhere. When the Taliban were at the...

WINNER — 2009 Deadly Award Outstanding Achievement in Literature SHORTLISTED — Australian Book Industry Association Biography of the Year SHORTLISTED — Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Lorraine McGee-Sippel was a small...

Some secrets should never be kept — a candid and heartfelt memoir about authenticity, difference, resilience, hope and love by an exciting new Australian voice My family may have been...

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties.In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...