8 must-read biography memoir books like The Last Daughter by Brenda Matthews

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The Last Daughter

By: Brenda Matthews

4.32

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

An unmissable First Nations memoir that tells of the shattering experience of being stolen, The Las…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in The Last Daughter by Brenda Matthews , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Am I Black Enough For You? by Anita Heiss

1. Am I Black Enough For You?

By: Anita Heiss

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be. What do… read more

Similar categories in Anita Heiss's Am I Black Enough For You? book and Brenda Matthews's The Last Daughter

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • australia
Cover of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran

2. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton

3. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

4. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Brenda Matthews's The Last Daughter

  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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6. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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  • audiobook
  • australia
  • indigenous
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7. Women & Children

By: Tony Birch

4.22

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more

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  • australia
  • indigenous
Cover of Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything by Julia Baird

8. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

By: Julia Baird

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that mos… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • australia
  • audiobook
"our bodies, our misshapen, lumpy, wobbly, birth-marked, uneven, scarred, imperfect bodies are our vessels. If only we were more gracious towards them. They won't last forever, they will eventually gr…"

-Julia Baird, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

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9. Safe Haven

By: Shankari Chandran

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. The Conversion

By: Amanda Lohrey

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

From Miles Franklin Award-winning author Amanda Lohrey comes a stunning literary foray into place, … read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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11. Sanctuary

By: Garry Disher

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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12. The In-Between

By: Christos Tsiolkas

3.70

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap … read more

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  • australia
"There was respite in history. The beligerence and intolerance of the contemporary age was of no consequence to the past. And there was no shouting."

-Christos Tsiolkas, The In-Between

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13. The Space Between the Stars

By: Indira Naidoo

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

"A tender, touching and at times bloody funny meditation on life. And death. And how to live."  - D… read more

Similar categories in Indira Naidoo's The Space Between the Stars book and Brenda Matthews's The Last Daughter

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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14. The Hummingbird Effect

By: Kate Mildenhall

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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15. I'd Rather Not

By: Robert Skinner

3.72

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

An endlessly entertaining collection of wayward autobiographical tales about a search for a richer … read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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16. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of I Don't: The Case Against Marriage by Clementine Ford

17. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage

By: Clementine Ford

4.13

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
  • audiobook
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18. You Called an Ambulance for What?

By: Tim Booth

3.98

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency callout for someone short of breath turns out to be a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • australia
  • audiobook
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19. Tell Me Again

By: Amy Thunig

4.41

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more

Similar categories in Amy Thunig's Tell Me Again book and Brenda Matthews's The Last Daughter

  • memoir
  • indigenous
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

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20. At the Foot of the Cherry Tree

By: Alli Parker

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists (Detective Varg, #0.8) by Alexander McCall Smith

21. The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists (Detective Varg, #0.8)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.70

Format: 90 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective Ulf Varg from the Department of Sensitive Crimes is often called upon to investigate unus… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Teacher's Pet by Hedley Thomas

22. The Teacher's Pet

By: Hedley Thomas

4.14

Format: 619 pages, Kindle Edition

If you thought you knew the story of The Teacher's Pet, get ready to be shocked. Hedley Thomas take… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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23. Car Crash: A Memoir of the Aftermath

By: Lech Blaine

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

“A story of carnage and life-long consequences. A brave and unsettling account.” —Tim Winton, autho… read more

Similar categories in Lech Blaine's Car Crash: A Memoir of the Aftermath book and Brenda Matthews's The Last Daughter

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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24. Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4)

By: Sarah Bailey

3.91

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

DS Gemma Woodstock returns to Smithson in a mysterious new thriller from the bestselling author of … read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe

25. Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra

By: Bruce Pascoe

4.20

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony. From the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of This Is Where You Have To Go: A forced adoption. A heartbreaking reunion. A mother's fight for justice. by Lynda Holden

26. This Is Where You Have To Go: A forced adoption. A heartbreaking reunion. A mother's fight for justice.

By: Lynda Holden

4.38

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

150,000 adoptions took place in Australia between 1950 and 1975. It is estimated that one in 15 was… read more

Similar categories in Lynda Holden's This Is Where You Have To Go: A forced adoption. A heartbreaking reunion. A mother's fight for justice. book and Brenda Matthews's The Last Daughter

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies by Kitty Flanagan

27. Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies

By: Kitty Flanagan

3.98

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

Once my fingers were fully cheezelled, I moved up to the cocktail Frankfurt bowl and started poking… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"I am almost ashamed to admit how much I love getting a laugh-for me, it is still the ultimate high. Admittedly, I don't take a lot of drugs."

-Kitty Flanagan, Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies

Cover of Girl in a Pink Dress by Kylie Needham

28. Girl in a Pink Dress

By: Kylie Needham

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Can one relationship survive two ambitious artists? Frances is an artist in her forties living a… read more

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  • australia
Cover of To Sing of War by Catherine McKinnon

29. To Sing of War

By: Catherine McKinnon

4.19

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrill… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Daughter by Brenda Matthews

30. The Last Daughter

By: Brenda Matthews

4.32

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

An unmissable First Nations memoir that tells of the shattering experience of being stolen, The Las… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Matthews's The Last Daughter book and Brenda Matthews's The Last Daughter

  • history
  • memoir
  • indigenous
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of But the Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu

31. But the Girl

By: Jessica Zhan Mei Yu

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your f… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

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Transform Your Habits

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Women & Children

Tony Birch

4.22

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Days of Innocence and Wonder

Lucy Treloar

3.71

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