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A follow-up to House of Lies by bestselling author Renee McBryde. 'Rarely does an author allow you to step inside quite like Renee does...Raw and ferocious in its honesty, Renee’s story is one few others can tell.' - Liz Hayes, reporter 60 Minutes
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Thea Calzoni has written such a beautiful and immensely interesting look at what it is REALLY like to raise a child with a mental disability, especially as they reach early adulthood.
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Everything from pickled brains to zombies, as Dr Meryl states “ We can’t remove our innate fear of death or the uneasiness most of us feel at the prospect of delving into a real human body. But the autopsy – the act of ‘seeing for ourselves’ – will enhance our understanding of how we got to the end, and hopefully along the way have better lives.”
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The road travelled was only half the journey
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Andrew Fuller's 2021 best seller, understanding your feelings and other people's is like your own super power!
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Sandie Jessamine gives readers an insight into what it's like to spend your teenage years living with one of the most notorious child killers of the 70s in Australia... and how they escaped a Parramatta institution.
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Introducing the class of 2022

‘Raw and ferocious in its honesty, Renee’s story is one few others can tell.’
 Liz Hayes, 60 Minutes

Renee McBryde

What happens after you write a tell-all memoir that reveals your family’s darkest secrets? Renee’s sequel to the House of Lies, examines what happens to a family after a tell-all memoir and its accompanying publicity is published. While Renee was busy appearing on 60 Minutes and SBS’s Insight, and being interviewed on radio and for magazines, her previous close-knit family life was imploding.
Naomi Hart

This story has it all. Written with warmth and passion, and an enormous dose of quirky humour, author Naomi outlines her crazy early life in NYC as a theatre actor that saw her cheered on stage by US audiences, spat on by rude restaurant customers,  and  living in buildings where dead bodies were routinely discovered. Her life then takes another unexpected turn when she marries a chef, becomes a high profile restaurant owner and has three children… only to lose all her hair to stress and discover a love for water polo!

‘Naomi’s writing is gripping and her story is bonkers.’
Jane Morrow, Murdoch Publishing

Semi-Educated is a warm and humorous of the first year of Georgie’s life wading through the daily trials, tribulations and occasional joys of being a teacher, written in her trademark gently self-deprecating, amusing style. A must for fans of A Year in the Mud, teachers, educators and anyone who appreciates dark humour!

‘This read is the perfect pick me up, the laugh you need right now. Thanks Georgie for sharing your warts and all tree change story.’
BlueWolf review of A Year in the Mud and the Toast and the Tears

What if you woke up in hospital one day thinking you were a girl aged nine, when instead you were a grown woman with a child?

What if you could not remember giving birth to your daughter, did not know who your husband was or even remember how to read and write? 

And what if the people helping you remember all these things were not, in fact, telling you the whole truth?

An amazing story that is almost too strange to be true!

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Night Train to Varanasi - This is a travelogue, a history lesson and an educational insight — all rolled into one. Above all, Sean makes a profound statement: “… I feel Indian …” Then he declares: “Sometimes the reality of India is much better than the concept”.
Night Train to Varanasi Reviewed by Rama Gaind.
Night Train to Varanasi Reviewed by Rama Gaind.PSnews.com.au
Night Train to Varanasi - Interspersed with travel accounts is information about the influence that India has had on world figures, ranging from Walt Whitman to T S Eliot, Aldous Huxley and even Alfred Deakin. Doyle still has India in his blood, even though he has devised a list showing the differences, good and bad, between the modern nation and the India of his youth. Readers will be grateful that he has shared his deep knowledge and love of that country, not only with his daughter, but also with them
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Night Train to VaranasiReviewed by Jennifer Somerville
highly recommend ‘Two Mums and a Dad’. Funny and tender, yet serious and insightful. A genuine snapshot of 1980s Sydney.
Two Mums and a Dad
Two Mums and a Dad Warren Hogan
BORDERLINE - Borderline is raw, deeply emotional ... Borderline is also full of hope, understanding and stubborn determination not to let the stamp of mental illness destroy everything she had worked for and overcome.
Borderline - reviewed by Janet Mawdsley
Borderline - reviewed by Janet Mawdsleybluewolfreviews.com.au
Very few writers make me laugh out loud but Toby Roberts is one of them. 'Two Mums and a Dad' is a coming of age tale that bares all. While coming to terms with his beautiful mother's attractiveness to younger women and her sexual flowering, he also has to dodge the bullets of his father's festering anger and resentment. In some hands this subject matter could make for a dark read, but Roberts' same wry humour that helped him survive his painful adolescence makes this debut memoir a delight. I highly recommended this book for anyone who has ever been a teenager.
Two Mums and a Dad
Two Mums and a Dad Sharon Skehan
BORDERLINE - Sandie Jessamine's memoir is a story of courage. It is not an easy book to read, and it made me cry on more than one occasion, but it is worth reading. She has Complex-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and is an example and reference for many women who have been underestimated and neglected over the years. I recommend everyone to get to know Sandie's story of strength.
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Borderline Maria - Sydney
Strong and real - This book is unbelievable, the story of this woman makes me think about many others that have to deal with horrible traumas without the minimum of support. We have to consume more and more memoirs like that to help each other.
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Borderline Joy - Sydney
TWO MUMS AND A DAD - Two Mums and a Dad is a tender, thoughtful true tale which will make you think deeply about school, family and love, about acceptance and peer pressures, about sexuality and puberty. And as you contemplate such life issues affecting us all, you’ll be thoroughly entertained and experience the very best of mirth.
Two Mums and a Dad
Two Mums and a Dad Scott Whitmont
TWO MUMS AND A DAD - A fantastic, fun, insightful read.... it’s hilarious, relevant and endearing. Brought back my own memories, good and bad, of the college days. I’m going to read it again in hard copy, I read it in two sittings, couldn’t put it down.
Two Mums and a Dad
Two Mums and a Dad Jamie Bakewell
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