James Bailey – Like a Cat Loves a Bird
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Nigel Cameron – Dr. Koop
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Kathryn Heyman – Circle of Wonders and Fury
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Jeffrey Meyers : Parallel Lives
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Adam Plunkett – Love and Need
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Ramie Targoff – Shakespeare’s Sisters
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James Bailey – Like a Cat Loves a Bird
In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr James Bailey chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark.
Nigel Cameron – Dr. Koop
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Nigel Cameron chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Dr Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General.
Kathryn Heyman – Circle of Wonders and Fury
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Kathryn Heyman chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting her memoir Fury and seventh novel, Circle of Wonders.
Jeffrey Meyers : Parallel Lives
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.
Adam Plunkett – Love and Need
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.
Ramie Targoff – Shakespeare’s Sisters
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.
Robert Dessaix – Chameleon
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, one of Australia’s most celebrated literary figures, Robert Dessaix chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting Chameleon: A Memoir of Art, Travel, Ideas and Love, which was shortlisted for the 2026 National Biography Award.
S. Shakthidharan – Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the award-winning playwright and author S. Shakthidharan, who is known as Shakthi, chats with me about his choices while crafting, Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath, which was shortlisted for the 2026 National Biography Award.
Micaela Sahhar – Find Me at the Jaffa Gate
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.
Helen Ennis – Max Dupain
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.