Posted on 30 Nov 2021 in Non-Fiction |
Carole Angier’s biography of writer WG Sebald examines his German origins, English exile, and his hugely influential books. In the preface to Speak, Silence,...
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Posted on 24 Jun 2021 in Non-Fiction |
Edmund Richardson recounts the hazardous life of ‘one of the greatest archaeologists of the age’. Nineteenth-century archaeologist James Lewis (alias Charles Masson),...
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Posted on 26 May 2020 in Non-Fiction |
Tom Segev’s biography illuminates the life and complexities of David Ben-Gurion, a central but divisive figure in Israel’s history. Ask Jews in Australia...
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Posted on 1 May 2020 in Extracts, Non-Fiction |
What makes a biographer? How do you approach writing a biography? Having run an extract from a biography last week – Cathy Perkins’s The Shelf Life of Zora Cross – it...
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Posted on 24 Apr 2020 in Extracts, Non-Fiction |
This week’s extract is from Cathy Perkins’s biography of Australian poet Zora Cross. Largely unknown today, she was a sensation when, still in her 20s, she...
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