Welcome to the Booktopia Biography Buzz, your monthly showcase of new and bestselling biographies, memoirs and true stories.
Our pick of the month is Stan Grant’s new book, Australia Day - the follow up to his critically acclaimed, award-winning first book, Talking to My Country. This is a book that asks the questions that need to be asked about Australia’s national identity, about reconciliation, indigenous struggle for belonging, and how Australia can move forward. Read our review here.
We also have a great selection of new biographies to choose from, including a great collection of new biographies and true stories for Mother’s Day.
by Jessica Rowe
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Why not cut the crap, take the pressure off and admit to the moments, days, weeks and months when the wheels of the household do fall off?
Why not cut the crap, take the pressure off and admit to the moments, days, weeks and months when the wheels do fall off? This crap housewife calls to unite all mothers who, like Jessica, sometimes feel they are not perfect.
by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
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This is a memoir about a dysfunctional family, about a mother and her daughters. But make no mistake. This is like no mother-daughter relationship you know.
When Vicki Laveau-Harvie's elderly mother is hospitalised unexpectedly, Vicki and her sister travel to their parents' isolated ranch home in Alberta, Canada, to help their father. Estranged from their parents for many years, Vicki and her sister are horrified by what they discover on their arrival. For years, Vicki's mother has camouflaged her manic delusions and savage unpredictability, and over the decades she has managed to shut herself and her husband away from the outside world, systematically starving him and making him a virtual prisoner in his own home.
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by Elton John
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In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, which is also the subject of the upcoming film Rocketman. The result is Me - the joyously funny, honest and moving story of the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time.
Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three, he was performing his first gig in America, facing an astonished audience in his bright yellow dungarees, a star-spangled T-shirt and boots with wings. Elton John had arrived and the music world would never be the same again.
