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Michelle Scott Tucker, Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World
Michelle Scott Tucker, Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2018, ISBN 9781925603422, pp 1-386, RRP $32.99 Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World is the author’s first book. And what a fabulous…
Jill Roe, Miles Franklin: A Short Biography
Jill Roe, Miles Franklin: A Short Biography HarperCollins Australia (Fourth Estate), 417 pp., ISBN: 9781460755792, p/bk, AUS$32.99 The first edition of the late Jill Roe’s award-winning work Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography was published in 2008. A decade later, a new edition…
Zeny Edwards, A Life of Purpose: a biography of John Sulman
Emeritus Professor David Carment launched this book at the State Library of NSW on 15 December 2017 and he has generously given us his permission to publish the text of his speech. Zeny Edwards, A Life of Purpose: a biography of John Sulman…
Grantlee Kieza, Mrs Kelly: The Astonishing Life of Ned Kelly’s Mother
Grantlee Kieza Mrs Kelly: The Astonishing Life of Ned Kelly’s Mother HarperCollins Publishers (ABC Books), 2017, 624 pp., ISBN: 9780733331572, h/bk, AUS$39.99 Bestselling author Grantlee Kieza’s latest work, Mrs Kelly: The Astonishing Life of Ned Kelly’s Mother, is a biography of Ellen Kelly (c1832-1923). Although ostensibly documenting the life of Mrs Ellen…