Sue Ebury
Sue Ebury, a Melbourne biographer and former editor and publisher, was presented with two FAW Barbara Ramsden Awards, one of which was for Michael Cannon’s Who’s Master? Who’s Man?, the first volume of Australia in the Victorian Age, which Thomas Nelson published in 1971. She is a research associate in the History Department of the University of Hong Kong. In 2010 Miegunyah Press issued a paperback edition of her 1994 book on Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop, the new title being Weary: King of the River.
‘Thank God I have done with him!’ – the words uttered by Dr Johnson’s publisher when he received the final proofs of the dictionary from its author – might well have been Peter Ryan’s own in 1988 when Manning Clark confessed that he had changed his mind about the character and career of Robert Menzies. No longer did Clark consider him an ‘imperialistic booby’. Melbourne University ... (read more)
Wirklich, ich lebe in finsteren Zeiten. (Truly, I live in dark times.)
When her mother uttered that line from Bertolt Brecht’s great poem ‘An die Nachgeborenen’, Juliana – the narrator of Elisabeth Holdsworth’s first novel – knew they were in for a hard time. Janna had returned to the Netherlands from Dachau carrying a cardboard suitcase that the Americans had given her. In it ... (read more)