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In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Jeffrey Meyers chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting Parallel Lives: From Freud and Mann to Arbus and Plath.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the literary critic Adam Plunkett chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry.

Picture a candlelit chamber in Elizabethan England: a woman bends over a sheet of parchment, quill in hand. Outside, crowds cheer a Shakespeare play at the Globe, but she writes in quiet defiance. It’s a side of the Renaissance literary world we rarely hear about: women putting quill to paper, bold, creative, determined, yet most are invisible and voiceless in the historical record.

In this special episode of Biographers in Conversation for the 2026 National Biography Award, Australian-Palestinian author and educator, Dr Micaela Sahhar, chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family.

In this special episode of Biographers in Conversation for the 2026 National Biography Award, Dr Helen Ennis chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Max Dupain: A Portrait.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, award-winning political biographer and journalist Troy Bramston chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting Gough Whitlam: The Vista of the New. Published 50 years after the dismissal of the Whitlam government, this is the first full biography of Gough Whitlam since the former Prime Minister’s death in 2014.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Ian Hembrow chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees, the biography of Swedish astronomer and Earth Science trailblazer, Professor Anders Celsius.

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, award-winning author Hester Kaplan chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Twice Born: Finding My Father in the Margins of Biography.

Sydney Opera House is Australia’s most iconic building. Sydney’s other much-loved icon is Luna Park. For nine decades, its toothy smile has been inviting us to step inside, promising laughter, thrills and a whiff of danger. Yet the construction of both places was plagued by controversy, scandals, professional rivalry and destroyed lives.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, celebrated conductor, musicologist and author Dr Paul Kildea chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while researching and writing Chopin’s Piano: A Journey through Romanticism.