Biographies & Memoirs

A heartbreaking tragedy leaves a young mother stranded in the isolating landscape of sudden grief. Over a decade of healing, she slowly discovers that light can pierce the deepest sorrow, transforming an unbearable ending into a profound beginning. This moving love letter to memory and motherhood celebrates the miraculous resilience of the human heart.

Patricia Cornwell, creator of the bestselling Kay Scarpetta forensic thriller series, traces its origins to her time working in a morgue as a young reporter.

In this candid memoir, she recounts a traumatic childhood marked by family abandonment, abuse, and hardship, and how these experiences shaped her path to becoming a forensic expert and internationally successful author.

In this definitive biography, renowned journalist and writer Susan Wyndham grapples with the elusive Harrower. She immerses us in the author’s tumultuous family, her complex friendships with Patrick White, Christina Stead, Kylie Tennant and Shirley Hazzard, and her timeless probing of the human spirit in five remarkable novels.