If you're a fan of Australian biographies, those big fat books with lots of research, interesting diversions and wonderful detail about a person's life that you'd never read before, you might be ...

The Australia Dictionary of Biography has rightly been described as a national treasure. Established over 50 years ago, it has generated 18 volumes of over 11,500 biographies of notable and ...

There are thousands of entries of famous, notorious, and almost unknown Australians in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Sir Donald Bradman and Larry Adler, AAP Image/Universal Music The ...

Eighteen months after the Australian writer’s death, his early work, activism and personal life are revealed in two complementary titles It is a demonstrable fact that Australia, where a rough ...

Kurdish Iranian writer and refugee Behrouz Boochani, who has been held in Australian migration detention on Manus Island since 2013, has won Australia’s National Biography Award for his memoir – No ...

Here was a moment. On October 24, 1977, the historian Manning Clark launched Graham Freudenberg’s biography of Gough Whitlam, A Certain Grandeur, at Canberra’s John Curtin House. It’s a scene that ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) is a fascinating trove that documents and describes the ...

Albert Namatjira became the most talked-about Aboriginal person of the 20th century. This was not only because his watercolour paintings mediated the colours and contours of the Australian inland to ...

The launch of the first Australian National Dictionary in decades is set to highlight changes in the English language specific to Australia. The dictionary also explains just how each of the thousands ...

The life of Noeline Brown - actress, comedian and, most recently, celebrity ballroom dancer - is given a beaut biographical treatment in this engaging program. From her childhood in the inner-Sydney ...

For more than a decade I have asked leading publishers what major titles in the subjects of politics, biography and history they have in the publication pipeline for the coming year. In 2025, a year ...