Laveau-Harvie wins 2019 Stella Prize for debut ‘The Erratics’
Vicki Laveau-Harvie has won the 2019 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, for her memoir The Erratics (Fourth Estate). Judging panel chair Louise Swinn said The Erratics, which tells the story of...
Hardie Grant acquires Tim Costello memoir
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights to a memoir by former CEO of World Vision Australia Tim Costello. The memoir, titled A Lot with a Little, will ‘take readers on...
Hardie Grant acquires Turnbull memoir
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to a memoir by former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The book is described as ‘an in-depth and definitive narrative of Turnbull’s prime ministership...
Scribe acquires Louise Omer memoir ‘Holy Woman’
Scribe has acquired world rights to a memoir about 'faith, feminist spirituality, and a search for meaning' by writer and critic Louise Omer, via Jane Novak of Jane Novak Literary...
‘Living in Hope’ wins 2018 Most Underrated Book Award
A memoir by a member of the Stolen Generations, Living in Hope (Frank Byrne with Gerard Waterford & Francis Coughlan, Ptilotus Press), has won the Small Press Network’s (SPN) Most Underrated Book...
S&S acquires Archie Roach memoir
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired world rights to a yet-to-be-titled memoir by singer-songwriter Archie Roach. Roach, who is part of the Stolen Generations, is also known as a campaigner...
PRH acquires Warne memoir
Penguin Random House will publish Australian cricketer Shane Warne’s memoir, No Spin (with Mark Nicholas), in Australia and the UK in October 2018. In a statement, the publisher said the...
Transit Lounge acquires Pajalic family memoir on mental illness
Transit Lounge has acquired Amra Pajalic’s memoir, Things Nobody Knows But Me. Transit Lounge publisher Barry Scott told Books+Publishing the ‘beautifully written’ memoir was ‘a tender, funny and searingly honest story of...
A&U acquires Bowditch memoir
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to a memoir by musician, actor and broadcaster Clare Bowditch, and will publish the title in October 2019. Publisher Kelly Fagan acquired...
Shelf talk: Memorable memoirs
High Court Justice Michael Kirby is no stranger to the public spotlight. Although he’s only recently published his own story, he’s also the subject of a new biography, Michael Kirby:...
‘My Life in a Pea Soup’ wins Finch Memoir Prize
The 2012 Finch Memoir Prize was awarded to Lisa Nops for her manuscript My Life in a Pea Soup. The prize, presented on 19 May at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, is...
One Way or Another (Nikki McWatters, Black Inc.)
In her Gold Coast home in 1981, with the aid of a stuffed rabbit named Andy Gibb and numerous Countdown viewings, 15-year-old Nikki McWatters connects her ever-consuming lust with rock...
Playing House (Amy Choi, Transit Lounge)
Playing House is a memoir from Melbourne writer Amy Choi which divides the author's adult life into three parts: her big trip to Europe in her early 20s; living in...
The Mind of A Thief (Patti Miller, UQP)
Patti Miller is a well-known author with one novel and four nonfiction books—including the popular guides for life writing, Writing Your Life and The Memoir Book—to her name. The Mind...
INTERVIEW: Kate Holden on ‘The Romantic’ (Text)
Andrea Hanke talks to Kate Holden about her new memoir The Romantic, a follow-up to In My Skin. I read that The Romantic originally started out as a novel. How...
Two more fake ‘memoirists’ exposed
The veracity of two more 'misery memoirs' has been called into question. Margaret Jones's Love and Consequences (Riverhead US) and Misha Defonseca's Surviving with Wolves (Piatkus) joined the ranks of Memoirs...