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A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a Literary Life by Jacqueline Kent
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Beatrice Davis, 1909-1992, was general editor at Angus and Robertson the main Australian publishing company from 1937 to 1973. There she discovered and published such writers as Thea Astley, Miles Franklin, Patricia Wrightson, Xavier Herbert, and Hal Porter, becoming a literary tastemaker in the process ...Show more
An Exacting Heart: The Story of Hephzibah Menuhin by Jacqueline Kent
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Hephzibah Menuhin had a musical gift most people only dream of. Her refusal to be defined by it led her to reinvent herself not once, but twice in her remarkable life. Like her renowned brother Yehudi, she was a child prodigy. In the brief spring between the world wars, the Menuhin family travelled exte ...Show more
Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook by Jacqueline Kent
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1985 Jacqueline Kent was content with her life. She had a satisfying career as a freelance book editor, and was emerging as a writer. Living and working alone, she relished her independence. But then she met Kenneth Cook, author of the Australian classic Wake in Fright, and they fell in love. With b ...Show more
Take Your Best Shot The Prime Ministership of Julia Gillard by Jacqueline Kent
$9.99 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Penguin Specials
Following from her successful biography The Making of Julia Gillard, here Jacqueline Kent analyses the tumultuous term in office of our first female prime minister. Take Your Best Shot is an insightful and immensely readable account of Gillard's time at the top, and of just how adversarial her environme ...Show more
The Making of Julia Gillard by Jacqueline Kent
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Australians saw many versions of Julia Gillard during her political career. Witty sparring opponent to Tony Abbott. Loyal deputy to and night-time assassin of Kevin Rudd. Hanging-on-by-her-fingernails leader of the land. But what really happened behind the scenes? And why? Drawing on interviews with Jul ...Show more
Vida: Vida Goldstein a Woman for Our Time by Jacqueline Kent
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Vida Jane Mary Goldstein, feminist and suffragist, was born at Portland, Victoria. Her father was an anti-suffragist, but Jacob Goldstein supported his daughters to be economically and intellectually independent. In the 1890s she became involved in various social welfare activities and attended Victoria ...Show more
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