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Autobiography/Memoir

Wards of the state: An autobiographical novella

Robert Adamson

Letters to Gil

Malik Al Nasir

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

Fifty-One Moves.

Ben Ashcroft

Foster Kid

Paul Barber

Girl with dove: a life built by books

Sally Bayley

Not Forgotten

Samilya Bjelic

Lion: A Long Way Home

Saroo Brierley

Choice or Constraint in Everyday Life

Judith Anne Brooker

Little Big Man

Stanley J. Browne

John Callahan

John Callahan

Steering the Mothership (2014)
'Like a Duck to Water'.

Rosie Canning

My Autobiography

Charles Chaplin

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

Lisa Cherry

Eric Clapton: The Autobiography

Eric Clapton

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

Justine Cowan

Forgotten

Les Cummings

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

Felicity Dargan

In Gratitude

Jenny Diski

The God Squad

Paddy Doyle

Love Child

Sue Elliot

A Fortunate Life - Fremantle Press

A B Facey

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

Deborah Feldman

Along the Way

Maureen Flanagan

News From the World

Paula Fox

Shadow child: a memoir of the stolen generation

Rosalie Fraser

Nine Clouds

Amanda Gargula

A Boy Called Graham

Graham Gaskin with James MacVeigh

That's Not My Child

Frank Golding

Good and Bad Cards

Frank Golding

The Secret of the Daisy

Carol Grace

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Alex Haley et al.

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

Anne Harrison

Matthew Henson

Matthew Henson

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

David Hill

Walk On: The Remarkable True Story of the Last Person Sentenced to Death in Australia

Brenda Hodge

The Girl in the Purple Dress: My Adoption Story

Jo Horsley

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

Dussa and the Maiden's Prayer

Walter Jacobsen

Looked After

Ashley John-Baptiste

Red Dust Road

Jackie Kay

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

Lynn Knight

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

David Leitch

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

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

Sue Martin

An Australian Son

Gordon Matthews

Borderline: A Memoir

Marie Stella McClure

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

Paula Mclain

Seven Storey Mountain

Thomas Merton

Up from the Lowest Rung

Deidre Michell

Ways of the Wicked Witch

Deidre Michell

Paid for: My Journey Through Prostitution

Rachel Moran

Sunday's Child? A Memoir by Leslie Baruch Brent

Jocelyn Morris Morris et al.

Half and Half: The Memoirs of a Charity Brat 1908-1989

Charles Nalden (autobiography)

The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream

Katharine Norbury

Don't Ever Tell: Kathy's Story

Kathy O'Beirne

Rememberings

Sinead O'Connor

A Place called Hope

Tom O'Neill

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Barack Obama

That Reminds Me: Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize 2020

Derek Owusu

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

While the Locust Slept

Peter Razor

The Life of Riley

Christina Riley

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

A Tuesday Thing

Kate Shayler

Back on the block: Bill Simon's story

Bill Montgomerie Simon et al.

Better than Happiness: The true antidote to discontent

Gregory P Smith

Out of the Forest

Gregory Smith

A pavane for another time

Bernard Smith

Desperate Hearts

Katherine Summers

The Boy Who Loved Books: A Memoir

John Sutherland

A Tertiary Moment

Ryszard Szablicki

Living the Happiest Years of Her Life

Priscilla Taylor

Orphaned by the Colour of My Skin: A Stolen Generation Story by Mary Terszak

Mary Terszak

Ten Doors Down: The story of an extraordinary adoption reunion

Robert Tickner

An Autobiography

Anthony Trollope

Tina Turner: My Love Story

Tina Turner

Charlie, the ratbag orphan: an orphan survivor in Australia

Alan Walker Walker et al.

Tell No One

Brendan Watkins

Survivor: The Shocking and Inspiring Story of a True Champion

Fatima Whitbread

Dingo! my life on the run

Max Williams

Gaining a Sense of Self

Karen Laura-Lee Wilson

My Turn: An Autobiography

Norman

Black Boy

Richard Wright Wright et al.

Inside Out: An Autobiography

Adamson Robert

Thrown Away Child

Louise Allen

Mixed Blessings from a Cambridge Union

Dame Elizabeth N Anionwu

All at Sea: Memories of a Coram Boy

Gorden Aspey

Only: A singular memoir

Caroline Baum

Daffodils - Audiobook

Louise Beech

Hand Me Down

Leigh Bonheur

Your Honour Can I Tell You My Story?

Brierley et al

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

Daryl Brougham

Childhood: A Memoir

Shannon Burns

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

Nicky Campbell

Sleepers (memoir)

Lorenzo Carcaterra

Jack Charles: A Born-again Blakfella

Jack Charles

Searching for Charmian

Suzanne Chick

Windswept and Interesting. My Autobiography

Billy Connolly

Mommie Dearest (autobiography)

Christina Crawford

Li Cunxin

Li Cunxin

Foster Care and Me

Judith Denton

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Lost in the System

Charlotte Dworkin Lopez et al.

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (

Olaudah Equiano

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

Bernadette Fahy

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

Fred Fever

Brutal-Surviving Westbrook Boys Home

Al 'Crow' Jorgensen Fletcher et al.

The Golly in the Cupboard

Phil Frampton

The Foundling (2018)

Paul Joseph Fronczak

9 Clouds Gets to University

Amanda Gargula

The Thief's Journal

M Jean Genet

An Orphan's Escape: Memories of a Lost Childhood

Frank Golding

Memoirs

Mikhail Gorbachev

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

Xiaolu Guo

The Hospital By the River: A Story of Hope

Catherine Hamlin

You Don't Look Adopted

Anne Heffron

The Looked After Kid

Paolo Hewitt

The King Of The Barbareens

Janet Hitchman

Me, My Bike and a Street Dog Called Lucy

Ishbel Holmes

Lowborn

Kerry Hudson

A Chip Off What Block?

Laurie Humphreys

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

David Jackson

A Tribute to Daphne

David Jackson

Plot 29: A Love Affair With Land

Allan Jenkins

This Boy. A Memoir of a Childhood

Alan Johnson

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

Sharyn Lewis Killens et al.

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

Keeping in step

George V Martin

Always in the convent shadow

Margaret Matley

Let Me Tell You. Mending a Broken Childhood

Anthony McCabe

Pulling the Chariot of the Sun

Shane McCrae

It Is No Secret

Donna Meehan

Against the Odds. Care Leavers at University

Deidre Michell et al.

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

Deidre Michell et al.

God was always there

Deidre Michell

My Place

Sally Morgan

Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

Liz Murray

Acceptance: A Memoir

Emi Nietfeld

Banana Boy

Frank Norman

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

Margo O'Byrne

Childhood Interrupted

Kathleen O'Malley

Whispering Hope

Steven O'Riordan

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

Michael Oher

Someone to Love Us

Terence O’Neill

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

Lionel Pearce

A Lonely Little Girl Goes to University

Pam Petrilli

The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave by Mary Prince

Mary Prince

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

Richard Rhodes

Finding Fish: A Memoir

Antwone Q Rivas Fisher et al.

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

The Long Way Home

Kate Shayler

My Name Is Why

Lemn Sissay

To Learn is to Live: Education Nourishes Self-Worth

Gregory P Smith

Better Off in a Home

Bill Smith

Tortured

Victoria

Fight The Fear

James Summers

No Ordinary Liz: An extraodinary story of life and family

Elizabeth Sutherland

Beyond the Orphanage Years

Ryszard Szablicki

A Proud & Strong Survivor

Priscilla Taylor

From the Ashes

Jesse Thistle

Fear of the Collar

Patrick Touher

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

Stumbling Forwards - Understand Backwards

Rob Watts

The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory: A Memoir

Corey White

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

Karen Laura-Lee Wilson

Gaining a Sense of Self

Karen Laura-Lee Wilson

Just A Child

Sammy Woodhouse

Ushant: an autobiographical narrative

Conrad Aiken

A Place to Call Home

David Ambroz

Labeled: Ward of the State

Kenisha E Anthony

Why Richard Kingsmill is is My God

Davida Bache

In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography

Nina Bawden

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

Mary Ann Bin-Sallik

Sunday's Child? - a Memoir

Leslie Baruch Brent

Racial Folly

Gordon Briscoe

The Child She Bare

Hannah Brown

The Elephant to Hollywood

Michael Caine

The WOTS Family

Cheryl Campbell

The Sixteenth Round

Rubin Carter

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

Kristen Chenoweth

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

Mini & Me

Michael Cooper

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

Rie Croll

Hackney Child

Hope Daniels

Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina

Michaela Deprince

Evelyn: A True Story

Evelyn Doyle

Life After Care: From Lost Cause to MBE

Mark Edwards

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

Kylie-Anne Evans

The Scent of my Mother's Kiss

Melene Fawdry

Predators' Paradise. A Journey of Survival and Resilience

Glen Fisher

Borrowed Findery

Paula Fox

The Love that Remains

Susan Francis

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

Michael (Mike) Fuller

Cloudy Wishes

Amanda Gargula

Deliver Me From Evil

Alloma Gilbert

Going to the Shop

Frank Golding

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

Maxim Gorky

Extraordinary Journey: The Lifelong Path of the Transracial Adoptee

Mark Hagland

The Convent

Marie Hargreaves

Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

Rob Henderson

Flo: child migrant from Liverpool

Flo Hickson

Part of My Story

Kimberley Hobbs

The Mistress's Daughter

A.M. Homes

I'll Love You If...

Matthew Huggins

The Sons with Two Moms

Tony Hynes

Saying Goodbye to Violet

David Jackson

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs

Borderline

Sandie Jessamine

Care to University

Reeny Jurcyszyn

Thursday's Child

Eartha Kitt

Down and Out: Surviving the Homelessness Crisis

Daniel Lavelle

Conversations with Myself

Nelson Mandela

Don't Ever Cry

Sue Martin

Among the Porcupines

Carol Matthau

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

Mary McCarthy

At a cost

Roy McFadyen

Red Tape Rape. The Story of Ki Meekins

Ki Meekins

Putting Down Roots

Deidre Michell

Two Mothers

Deidre Michell

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

Martin Miller

Our Voice of Fire

Brandi Morin

The Truth about My Fathers

Gaby Naher

Bridge Across My Sorrows

Christina Noble

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

It's about Healing: Our Story

Margot O'Byrne

The Other Side of Absence

Betty O'Neil

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Barack Obama

You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are

Rudy Owens

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

The Rale Rasic Story

Rale Rasic

Three Little Words

Ashley Rhodes-Courter

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

Archie Roach

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

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

Kate Shayler

Palimpsest

Lisa Wool-Rim Sjoeblom

The Boy Adeodatus

Bernard Smith

Our Betty

Liz Smith

The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley

Henry Morton Stanley Stanley et al.

Barbara Sumner

Barbara Sumner

A personal journey towards healing and redress

Ryszard Szablicki

Beyond the Orphanage. A journey of hope and aspirations

Deborah Dzifah Tamakloe

God, the Devil and Me

Alf Taylor

Goodbye, Mummy Darling

Susan Tickner

Hell Is Round the Corner: The Unique No-Holds Barred Autobiography

Tricky

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

Bath Times & Nursery Rhymes

Pam Weaver