6 Best biography books like Desire by Jessie Cole

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Desire

By: Jessie Cole

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

What to do with the intensity of longing that occasionally arises? Sometimes I hug my pup so hard h…

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1. 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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2. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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3. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here

By: Heather Rose

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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4. 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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5. Bodies of Light

By: Jennifer Down

4.29

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or: he’d found… read more

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"The Sydney of this time was a different place to the honeymoon city I'd visited with Damien. That one was the crescent of the bridge, the rolling waves beneath the ferry, the shaded streets in The Ro…"

-Jennifer Down, Bodies of Light

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6. Bedtime Story

By: Chloe Hooper

3.97

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From the best-selling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Grief has pulled her out further than she thought she could go. To the edge of what it is possible to bear, of what's habitable, and then further again."

-Chloe Hooper, Bedtime Story

"You know that grief cannot be avoided. And that when it finds a person, they might look the same but they're changed: their missing person has altered the atmosphere in the house, the classroom, the …"

-Chloe Hooper, Bedtime Story

"Death entered the medical miracle of the twentieth century already camouflaged. But in scientifically advanced nations, it now takes place in hospitals or nursing homes, out of view, a medical failur…"

-Chloe Hooper, Bedtime Story

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7. This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It

By: Tabitha Carvan

3.82

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Why We Can't Sleep meets Furiously Happy in this hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman's midl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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8. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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9. 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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10. Seeing Other People

By: Diana Reid

3.42

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Which comes first—those you love, or those you want? Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat … read more

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11. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

By: Grace Tame

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

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12. The Running Club

By: Ali Lowe

3.92

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

The rules of the running club are the same as they have always been: keep your breath steady, keep … read more

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13. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"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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14. Everyone and Everything

By: Nadine J. Cohen

4.29

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister. … read more

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15. The Albatross

By: Nina Wan

3.48

Format: None pages, ebook

'The albatross is just about the rarest thing in golf - two shots on a par 5. A hole-in-one, anywhe… read more

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16. Marshmallow

By: Victoria Hannan

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Some moments change everything. For five friends, what should have been a birthday to remember will… read more

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17. Wildflowers

By: Peggy Frew

3.29

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forg… read more

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"There were open paddocks winking with sugar cane, and distant silos and then a billboard that they all yelped at because it showed a huge picture of a foetus alongside a picture of a young woman with…"

-Peggy Frew, Wildflowers

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18. Sunbathing

By: Isobel Beech

4.05

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Summertime in Italy, fresh vegetables from the garden, taking turns washing dishes, reading to each… read more

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19. Suddenly Single at Sixty

By: Jo Peck

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An uplifting, witty and hilarious memoir about the road from the shock and despair of a sudden marr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. Desire

By: Jessie Cole

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

What to do with the intensity of longing that occasionally arises? Sometimes I hug my pup so hard h… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Cole's Desire book and Jessie Cole's Desire

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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21. Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink

By: Ariane Beeston

4.57

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A frank, hopeful and darkly funny memoir of postpartum psychosis and recoveryAriane Beeston is a ch… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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