Autobiography/Memoir

Wards of the state: An autobiographical novella

Robert Adamson

I know why the caged bird sings

Maya Angelou

Why Richard Kingsmill is is My God

Davida Bache

In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography

Nina Bawden

Hand Me Down

Leigh Bonheur

Lion: A Long Way Home

Saroo Brierley

Through the Eyes of a Foster Child: My Childhood in Over 30 New Zealand Homes

Daryl Brougham

One of the Family: Why A Dog Called Maxwell Changed My Life

Nicky Campbell

Jack Charles: A Born-again Blakfella

Jack Charles

The girl in the locker: the true story of twins abandoned by their mother to a life of abuse, and their survival and fight for freedom

Sonia St Claire

The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story

Justine Cowan

I've been bloody lucky: the story of an orphan named Jimmy Butt

Felicity Dargan

In Gratitude

Jenny Diski

Life After Care: From Lost Cause to MBE

Mark Edwards

A Fortunate Life - Fremantle Press

A B Facey

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

Deborah Feldman

Brutal-Surviving Westbrook Boys Home

Al 'Crow' Jorgensen Fletcher et al.

A Search For Belonging: A story about race, identity, belonging and displacement

Michael Fuller

Nine Clouds

Amanda Gargula

Deliver Me From Evil

Alloma Gilbert

An Orphan's Escape: Memories of a Lost Childhood

Frank Golding

Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up

Xiaolu Guo

Call Me Auntie: My Childhood in Care and My Search for My Mother

Anne Harrison

The looked after kid

Paolo Hewitt

The King Of The Barbareens

Janet Hitchman

Lowborn

Kerry Hudson

A Chip Off What Block?

Laurie Humphreys

A Tribute to Daphne

David Jackson

I set off on an unchartered course...and found myself drifting

David Jackson

Borderline

Sandie Jessamine

The Inconvenient Child: An Abandoned Australian Child Struggles to Survive and Find her American Father

Sharyn Lewis Killens et al.

Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue: The Story of An Accidental Family

Lynn Knight

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

Don't Ever Cry

Sue Martin

Let Me Tell You. Mending a Broken Childhood

Anthony McCabe

It Is No Secret

Donna Meehan

Putting Down Roots

Deidre Michell

Two Mothers

Deidre Michell

Up from the Lowest Rung

Deidre Michell

Sunday's Child? A Memoir by Leslie Baruch Brent

Jocelyn Morris Morris et al.

The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream

Katharine Norbury

It's about Healing: Our Story

Margot O'Byrne

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Barack Obama

University Lectures and Lesson in Life

Stacey Page

A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, A Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home

Steve Pemberton

Poum and Alexandre: A Paris Memoir

Catherine de Saint Phalle

A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood?Tenth Anniversary Edition

Richard Rhodes

Finding Fish: A Memoir

Antwone Q Rivas Fisher et al.

Our Fathers Cleared the Bush: Remembering Eyre Peninsula

Jill Roe

Touch Wood: A Girlhood in Occupied France

Renee Roth-Hano

The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

How the Light Gets In: Writing as Spiritual Practice

Pat Schneider

Burnished: Burnside Life Stories: A collection of life accounts from residents of Burnside Children's Homes, Sydney

Kate Shayler

Back on the block: Bill Simon's story

Bill Montgomerie Simon et al.

The Boy Adeodatus

Bernard Smith

Out of the Forest

Gregory Smith

Tortured

Victoria

Fight The Fear

James Summers

A personal journey towards healing and redress

Ryszard Szablicki

Beyond the Orphanage. A journey of hope and aspirations

Deborah Dzifah Tamakloe

Goodbye, Mummy Darling

Susan Tickner

If Everyone Cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker, M.B.E.

Margaret Tucker

Nobody's Child: The True Story or Growing up in a Yorkshire Children's Home

G J Urquhart

My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions

Alfred Russel Wallace

The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory: A Memoir

Corey White

Gaining a Sense of Self

Karen Laura-Lee Wilson

Offla's Children: A Family Memoir

Helena Ban Wilson et al.

Black Boy

Richard Wright Wright et al.

Letters to Gil

Malik Al Nasir

Mixed Blessings from a Cambridge Union

Elizabeth N Anionwu

Foster Kid

Paul Barber

Girl with dove: a life built by books

Sally Bayley

Sunday's Child? - a Memoir

Leslie Baruch Brent

Racial Folly

Gordon Briscoe

The Elephant to Hollywood

Michael Caine

Sleepers

Lorenzo Carcaterra

A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages

Kristen Chenoweth

Eric Clapton: The Autobiography

Eric Clapton

Shaped by Silence: Stories from Inmates of the Good Shepherd Laundries and Reformatories

Rie Croll

Foster Care and Me

Judith Denton

Evelyn: A True Story

Evelyn Doyle

Love Child

Sue Elliot

Freedom of Angels: Surviving Goldenbridge Orphanage: Childhood in Goldenbridge Orphanage

Bernadette Fahy

Who Cares?: Memories of a Childhood in Barnardo's

Fred Fever

The Golly in the Cupboard

Phil Frampton

Cloudy Wishes

Amanda Gargula

A Boy Called Graham

Grahma Gaskin with James MacVeigh

Going to the Shop

Frank Golding

Memoirs

Mikhail Gorbachev

Extraordinary Journey: The Lifelong Path of the Transracial Adoptee

Mark Hagland

You Don't Look Adopted

Anne Heffron

Flo: child migrant from Liverpool

Flo Hickson

Part of My Story

Kimberley Hobbs

I'll Love You If...

Matthew Huggins

The Sons with Two Moms

Tony Hynes

Saying Goodbye to Violet

David Jackson

Dussa and the Maiden's Prayer

Walter Jacobsen

Care to University

Reeny Jurcyszyn

Thursday's Child

Eartha Kitt

Family Secrets: A Writer's Search for His Parents and His Past

David Leitch

Conversations with Myself

Nelson Mandela

Keeping in step

George V Martin

At a cost

Roy McFadyen

Red Tape Rape. The Story of Ki Meekins

Ki Meekins

Ways of the Wicked Witch

Deidre Michell

Recipes for Survival: Stories of hope and healing by survivors of the state 'care' system in Australia

Deidre Michell et al.

The True “Drama of the Gifted Child”: The Phantom Alice Miller — The Real Person

Martin Miller

The Truth about My Fathers

Gaby Naher

Don't Ever Tell: Kathy's Story

Kathy O'Beirne

Childhood Interrupted

Kathleen O'Malley

I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond

Michael Oher

Little One

Peter Papathanasiou

Doug's story: the struggle for a fair go

Doug Cincotta Pentland et al.

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence

Doris Garimara Pilkington

Three Little Words

Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music

Archie Roach

The Continuing Education of the Artist as a Mature Woman

Rachael Romero

The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Orphanage Boy

Szablicki Ryszard

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Mary Seacole

A Tuesday Thing

Kate Shayler

My Name Is Why

Lemn Sissay

Better Off in a Home

Bill Smith

Our Betty

Liz Smith

The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley

Henry Morton Stanley Stanley et al.

The Boy Who Loved Books: A Memoir

John Sutherland

Beyond the Orphanage Years

Ryszard Szablicki

A Proud & Strong Survivor

Priscilla Taylor

Ten Doors Down: The story of an extraordinary adoption reunion

Robert Tickner

Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography

Jim Tully

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir Of A Family And Culture In Crisis

J D Vance

The anti cool girl

Rosie Waterland

Damaged: Heartbreaking Stories of the Kids Trapped in Britain's Broken Care System

Chris Wild

Navigating My Way to a Bachelor of Arts Degree in the 1960s: A Care Leaver's Journey

Karen Laura-Lee Wilson

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson

Thrown Away Child

Louise Allen

Fifty-One Moves.

Ben Ashcroft

Only: A singular memoir

Caroline Baum

Aboriginal women by degrees : their stories of the journey towards academic achievement

Mary Ann Bin-Sallik

Your Honour Can I Tell You My Story?

Brierley et al

Choice or Constraint in Everyday Life

Judith Anne Brooker

The WOTS Family

Cheryl Campbell

My Autobiography

Charles Chaplin

The Brightness of Stars: Stories of Adults Who Came Through the Care System

Lisa Cherry

Mini & Me

Michael Cooper

Forgotten

Les Cummings

Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina

Michaela Deprince

Lost in the System

Charlotte Dworkin Lopez et al.

Born To Survive: You Can't Break A Broken heart

Kylie-Anne Evans

The Scent of my Mother's Kiss

Melene Fawdry

Along the Way

Maureen Flanagan

Shadow child: a memoir of the stolen generation

Rosalie Fraser

9 Clouds Gets to University

Amanda Gargula

The Thief's Journal

M Jean Genet

Good and Bad Cards

Frank Golding

Autobiography of Maxim Gorky: My Childhood, in the World, My Universities

Maxim Gorky

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Alex Haley et al.

Matthew Henson

Matthew Henson

The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia

David Hill

Me, My Bike and a Street Dog Called Lucy

Ishbel Holmes

Daughters of Nazareth

Trisha Hughes

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

Eric Idle

I was just trying to matter

David Jackson

Plot 29: A Love Affair With Land

Allan Jenkins

Red Dust Road

Jackie Kay

Out of Darkness. Growing up with the Christian Brothers

Ivor A Knight

The Last Foundling: A little boy left behind, The mother who wanted him back

Tom H. Mackenzie

No Way Home: The terrifying story of life in a children's home and a little girl's struggle to survive

Sue Martin

Always in the convent shadow

Margaret Matley

Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir

Paula Mclain

Seven Storey Mountain

Thomas Merton

God was always there

Deidre Michell

Against the Odds. Care Leavers at University

Deidre Michell et al.

My Place

Sally Morgan

Bridge Across My Sorrows

Christina Noble

Left unsaid: a triumph of sibling love over parental neglect & institutional care

Margo O'Byrne

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Barack Obama

That Reminds Me: Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize 2020

Derek Owusu

Feathers of the Snow Angel: Memories of a Child in Exile

Lionel Pearce

A Lonely Little Girl Goes to University

Pam Petrilli

While the Locust Slept

Peter Razor

The Life of Riley

Christina Riley

Inside Out: An Autobiography

Adamson Robert

Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

The Women Who Raised Me

Victoria Rowell

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

Oliver Sacks

Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours

Sarah Sentilles

The Long Way Home

Kate Shayler

Palimpsest

Lisa Wool-Rim Sjoeblom

A pavane for another time

Bernard Smith

To Learn is to Live: Education Nourishes Self-Worth

Gregory P Smith

Desperate Hearts

Katherine Summers

No Ordinary Liz: An extraodinary story of life and family

Elizabeth Sutherland

A Tertiary Moment

Ryszard Szablicki

Living the Happiest Years of Her Life

Priscilla Taylor

Fear of the Collar

Patrick Touher

Tina Turner: My Love Story

Tina Turner

Charlie, the ratbag orphan: an orphan survivor in Australia

Alan Walker Walker et al.

Stumbling Forwards - Understand Backwards

Rob Watts

Dingo! my life on the run

Max Williams

Gaining a Sense of Self

Karen Laura-Lee Wilson

My Turn: An Autobiography

Norman