I Can't Tell You But I Will: Must-read new memoir from the award-winning, bestselling icon

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Magda Szubanski

I Can't Tell You But I Will

Name: I Can't Tell You But I Will
Price: 55 AUD
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ISBN: 9781922458810

Must-read new memoir from the award-winning, bestselling icon

Magda Szubanski

$55

Hardback

Forthcoming
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The Text Publishing Company
29 September 2026

Autobiography: arts & entertainment; Memoirs

The second memoir from a beloved Australian icon of TV and cinema follows Magda's journey from daughter to orphan, from comedian to campaigner.

I Can't Tell You But I Will is the powerful and tender new memoir by Magda Szubanski, author of the bestselling, award-winner Reckoning.

In her book she writes with searing honesty about her complicated relationship with her dying mother Margaret.

As Magda stepped into the fight for same-sex marriage in Australia, she was also confronting the heartbreak of her mother's decline.

This unforgettable book describes the true cost of caring, the courage it takes to keep going, and the impossible pull between public duty and private grief.

A beautiful hardcover, I Can't Tell You But I Will is for everyone who has loved or lost someone, or tried to hold themselves together when life demands everything at once.

By: Magda Szubanski
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 1mm, Width: 1mm,
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781922458810
ISBN 10: 1922458813
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 29 September 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Magda Szubanski is one of Australia's best-known and most-loved performers. She began her career in university revues, then appeared in a number of sketch comedy shows before creating the iconic character of Sharon Strzelecki in ABC-TV's Kath and Kim. She has also acted in films (Babe, Babe- Pig in the City; Happy Feet, The Golden Compass) and stage shows. Reckoning won the 2016 Indie Award for Non-Fiction, the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary award for Non-Fiction, the 2016 Nielsen Bookdata Booksellers Choice Award, the 2016 Australian Book Industry Award for Biography and the Australian Book Industry Award for Book of the Year 2016.