Memoir Archives

AT IRREGULAR INTERVALS of between twenty and thirty years came great floods which were afterwards remembered as one remembers...

STANDING IN MY in red coat, next to my luggage on the shining granite floor, I wait anxiously. Facing...

By Frances Guo

THE BUSHFIRE DEBRIS descends from the night sky with a strangely graceful motion, as if swimming. Leaves and twigs...

By Robert Hillman

TOBIAS FOX, VICE president of sales, arrived at our Canberra sales office by taxi. This was the last stop...

By Brett Caldwell

I WAS INITIATED into the Japanese investment-banking scene in a murky Tokyo izakaya in early 1988. Selling Japanese stocks to international...

By Colin Mills

EMERGING FROM THE subway I joined the crowds of Lower Manhattan, anxious about my first day on the job....

By Erica Sontheimer

SO THERE I was, an outsider at the global epicentre of men with bushy beards and cardigans. They were...

By Alan Attwood

‘HE HAD THE sagacity to realise that, once he was out of Australia, the colours would gradually bleed from...

By Nikki Gemmell

SINCE EARLY CHILDHOOD, I have had a certain perception of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War. Not because...

By Nikola Gurovic

TELL ME A a story, my daughter says, and even though I don't feel like telling stories tonight, I...

By Eva Lomski

PICTURE A WINTER'S evening in a kitchen in Wellington, New Zealand. An Antarctic wind stalks the house, rattling windows...

By Sydney Smith

Selected for Best Australian Essays 2010 MY PARENTS ARE known as members of the ‘first generation' of Vietnamese refugees, who...

By Pauline Nguyen