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, acclaimed classical music critic and novelist, Sophia Lambton, chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography, her biography of Maria Callas, the legendary operatic soprano and lyrical enigma. Maria Callas would have turned 100 on 2 December 2023, and in honour of her centennial, Sophia Lambton published The Callas Imprint.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, author, essayist and journalist, Erin Vincent, chats with me about her choices while crafting Fourteen Ways of Looking. Her narrative is at the forefront of one of the defining literary movements of our moment, the turn towards hybrid, genre-blurring life writing, offering exciting new possibilities for life writers.

What really happened when Charles Mountford led a quarrelsome team of Australian and American scientists to explore traditional First Nations life in Arnhem Land? That’s the question the award-winning historian Dr Martin Thomas explores in Clever Men: How Worlds Collided on the Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land of 1948.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Judith Mackrell, one of Britain’s most eminent biographers, chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Lives and Loves of Gwen and Augustus John.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, award-winning biographer Dr Sylvia Martin chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Double Act: Eirene Mort and Nora Kate Weston. This story is a richly illustrated dual biography of the artists Eirene Mort and Nora Kate.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, author, journalist and lawyer, Dr Cynthia Banham, chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while researching and crafting: Mother Shadow: A Meditation on Maternal Inheritance. A hybrid of biographical reimagining, lyrical memoir and transnational family history, Mother Shadow is poetic, with whimsical detours and meditative qualities.

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Sheryle Bagwell chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Letter from Provence: Two Women, Two Centuries and a Village House in France.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Nigel Hamilton, one of the foremost biographers of our time, chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while researching and writing Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents.