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Brenda Niall
Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock has captivated and perplexed generations. But the woman behind the novel is as much an enigma as the disappearance of the fictitious schoolgirls and…
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Australia’s leading biographer Brenda Niall, now in her nineties, turns the spotlight on her own story in this fascinating memoir of a remarkable life and career
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Through war, love affairs, children and old age, the Duracks’ creative lives were always shaped by the enduring power of the Kimberley region. With unprecedented access to hundreds of private…
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The Boyd family is Australia’s most remarkable artistic dynasty. This work traces the emergence of an extraordinary artistic tradition. It places the Boyds in their historical and personal contexts, and…
The extraordinary story of a woman who overcame living in the shadow of the holocaust to become one of Australia’s most celebrated artists, told by Australia’s most awarded biographer.
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After a childhood among artists, French emigres and English radicals in Regency London, Georgiana lived as a young woman at her father’s castle in the Highlands. By allowing Georgiana’s own…
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The first biography of MartinBeckett Boyd (1893-1972), Anglo-Australian novelist and member of Australia’s best known family of artists.
Martin Boyd was one of the generation whose lives were changed…
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Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 until his death, aged ninety-nine, in 1963, was a towering figure in Melbourne’s Catholic community. But his political interventions had a profound effect…
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An insightful and moving story of life in nineteenth and early twentieth century Australia, from one of the country’s most celebrated biographers.
