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Lamisse Hamouda : The Shape of Dust
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Amy Reading – The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Amy Reading chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker, the biography of Katharine Sergeant White, the first fiction editor of The New Yorker, an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry.
Read MorePatchen Barss – The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Patchen Barss chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius, the biography of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose.
Read MoreBrenda Niall – Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Australia’s doyenne of biography, Brenda Niall AO, chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting: Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock.
Read MoreAndrew Ford – The Shortest History of Music
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the multi-award-winning broadcaster, composer and author Andrew Ford AOM chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his latest book, The Shortest History of Music. A lively, entertaining, authoritative tour through 4,000 years of music, this book explores music’s role in human society. Spanning cultures and eras, it’s a blend of witty and informative anecdotes, historical insights and philosophical musings.
Read MoreKate Kennedy – Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Kate Kennedy, a distinguished cellist, musicologist, broadcaster and Director of Oxford University’s Centre for Life Writing, chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound.
Read MoreBernadette Brennan – Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, award-winning biographer Dr Bernadette Brennan chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears, the biography of Gillian Mears, one of Australia’s most celebrated authors.
Read MoreHelen Ennis – Max Dupain : A Portrait
In this episode of Biographers of Conversation, the multi-award winning author and art historian Helen Ennis chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Max Dupain: A Portrait.
Read MoreAnna Funder : Wifedom
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, multi award-winning author Anna Funder chats with Gabriella about her choices while crafting Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life. Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slipped into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watched him create his writing self, she tried to remember her own…
Read MoreJacqueline Kent: A Certain Style. Beatrice Davis: A Literary Life
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Jacqueline Kent chats with Gabriella about her choices while writing A Certain Style. Beatrice Davis: A Literary Life, the biography of Beatrice Davis, Australia’s doyenne of publishing.
Read MoreAshleigh Wilson: Wendy Whiteley: Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Ashleigh Wilson chats with Gabriella about the choices he made while writing A Year with Wendy Whiteley: Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening.
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