If lockdown is getting you down, here's a set of autobiographies and memoirs to inspire you to think beyond COVID19.
Diary of the girl behind The Fault in Our Stars | Aussie kids classic about growing up with polio | Needs no introduction as his title says it all! | Read the books? Now find out about the writer. |
A call for reconciliation told through stories and anecdotes of Boori's life. | Is adoption in Sweden better than abject poverty in a Brazilian forest cave? | Honest account of her rose to basketball fame despite homophobia. | Baby flees abuse and child marriage to work in the city & write a memoir. |
Humble beginnings during segregation for this journalist, black rights activist and prizewinning author | Overcoming neglect and severe physical and emotional abuse to become US's first black female judge | From an abusive Mormon homeschool family to a PhD in History, Tara will show you the power of Education to save souls. | A delightfully quirky memoir from one of England's most important contemporary writers who overcame poverty and abuse. |
After 3 decades of politically resonant songs, Amos talks feminism and the #Me too movement | One of Australia's favourite actresses connects to family and culture | Australia's favourite token representative Young, Muslim, Woman tells it like it is. | Egyptian migrant, single mum, and professor or counter-terrorism, anne became the first Muslim woman in Aussie parliament. |