This (strikingly pink!) book is a collection of personal stories about living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD. Whether you pick it up hoping to be enlightened, educated or even, …
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Searching for Pearls
Reviewed onThe desire for great change by “going on a journey and becoming a man” is the undertow of writer Benjamin Simon O’Neill’s immersive memoir Searching for Pearls, which charts his …
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Outback Teacher
Reviewed onSally Gare’s memoir opens with her arrival in 1956 at the Forrest River Mission School in far north Western Australia. She lives in a ‘modern’ fibro house and teaches Oombulgurri …
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Thirty-two years ago, Wendy Davis was attacked by the man who would go on to become one of WA’s most notorious serial killers. In the immediate wake of her pain, …
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Homesick: Taiwan
Reviewed onHomesick by Yu-Ying Chuang is a wonderful collection of musings about the meaning of home interspersed with recipes and photographs. Chuang shares candidly the stories of his childhood and how …
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In Second Innings: On Men, Mental Health and Cricket, former A-grade district cricketer Barry Nicholls walks us through five decades of his life, growing up in suburban Australia, the experiences …
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Heading South
Reviewed onGulflander. Overland. Indian Pacific. Maps and timetables and clickety-clack rails. The traveller’s desire to see more and take longer doing it sits at a window seat in Tim Richard’s Heading …
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The Boy from Birdum
Reviewed onThe Boy from Birdum is a treat on many levels. With the deft execution of an old school drop punt, Bill Dempsey and Steve Hawke have collaborated to share Dempsey’s …
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Two Cultures, One Story
Reviewed onTwo Cultures, One Story is a personal narrative that explores the life of Dr Robert Isaacs, an inspirational Noongar figure, and takes us to the front lines of the struggle …
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God, the Devil and Me
Reviewed onAlf Taylor’s God, the Devil and Me is a searing memoir of the years he spent as a child and adolescent in the Boys House at the New Norcia Catholic …
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