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BRENDA NIALL ON ARTHUR BOYD by NIALL BRENDA
$14.95 AUD
Category: REFERENCE | Series: Melbourne University Press Masterworks S.
The brilliant painter, Arthur Boyd (1920-99) was a member of Australia's most famous artistic dynasty. This excerpt from Brenda Niall's prize-winning study, "The Boyds", reveals Arthur Boyd as a man who lived in a private world of painting, family, friends and familiar surroundings, yet developed into a ...Show more
Can You Hear the Sea?: My Grandmother's Story by Brenda Niall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Brenda Niall has turned her biographer's eye to a personal subject - her grandmother, Aggie. She tells the story of a fiercely independent and intelligent woman who braved a new country as a single woman, teaching in a country school, before marrying a Riverina grazier, whose large powerful family was w ...Show more
Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson by Brenda Niall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
Four Australian women writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-a time when stories of bush heroism and mateship abounded, a time when a writing career might be an elusive thing for a woman. Friends and Rivals is a vivid and engaging account of the intersecting and entwined lives of E ...Show more
Mannix (HB) by Brenda Niall
$50.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 until his death, aged ninety-nine, in 1963, was a towering figure in Melbourne's Catholic community. But his political interventions had a profound effect on the wider Australian nation too. Award-winning biographer Brenda Niall has made some unexpected d ...Show more
My Accidental Career by Brenda Niall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Australia's leading biographer Brenda Niall, now in her nineties, turns the spotlight on her own story in this fascinating memoir of a remarkable life and career Brenda Niall, arguably Australia's foremost biographer, looks back on her own life and the circumstances, events and choices that shaped her ...Show more
True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack by Brenda Niall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twen ...Show more
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