Non-Fiction for Adults

Memoir, social history and natural history are just some of the subjects covered by local writers.

Click on the author's name and then the title of their book to find more information about it, and the public libraries in which it can be found. You can request it from another library if it is not available at your local library.

If there is one, you can click the link next to their name to take you to their website. Over time more authors will be added to this page.

Rosalind Appleby   (website)
Fascinating accounts of women composers in Australia.

Estelle Blackburn   (website)
Made legal history by exposing two terrible miscarriages of justice.

Antonio Buti   (website)
Lawyer whose most recent book is about the Micklebergs.

Paul Carter   (website)
Gripping and hilarious accounts of a life on the rigs.

Brian Dibble   (website)
Poet and academic.

Colleen Egan   (website)
Journalist fighting to clear an innocent man.

Susanna Iuliano   (website)
Italian lives in Western Australia.

Theo Kalogeracos   (website)
Pizza - the best in the world!

Victoria Laurie   (website)
Lovely evocation of the Kimberley.

Sally Morgan   (website)
The story of her life and those closest to her.

Philippa Nikulinsky   (website)
Delicate wildflower and wildlife drawings that bring ecosystems to life.

Andrew Relph
Memoir about reading.

David Ritter   (website)
Understanding native title.

Stephen Scourfield   (website)
Travel writer from The West Australian, has also written fiction.

Brian Simmonds   (website)
Lovely illustrated book about the Swan River.