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Bitter Lemons

The official history of Australia may have forgotten colourful rogues like Tom Ley, but Mudgee painter Michael Bourke has painted a biographical suite of scenes that tell his life story in almost cartoonish images.
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January 10, 2025
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Flash Madam

Caroline Hodgson took the name Madame Brussels to become the ‘flash madam’ of Melbourne in the post Gold Rush era. Her business sense for buying real estate and flair for style and comfort attracted …
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January 3, 2025
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The Queen of Celebrity

For decades, Kitty Kelley has held the reputation as the queen of celebrity biography in the US, writing juicy and revealing accounts of the lives of Jackie Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, The Bush …
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December 20, 2024
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By George

In George Harrison, The Reluctant Beatle, veteran rock journalist and biographer Philip Norman (author of the definitive Beatles book, Shout!) gives us an access all areas portrait of a paradoxical figure who found fame …
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January 18, 2024
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To Bee Or Not To Bee

One of the most puzzling and flamboyant women on the streets of Sydney in the twentieth century, Bee Miles became the stuff of legend, a celebrity in her own lifetime, but also a troubled …
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January 5, 2024
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Playing By The Rules

Catharine Lumby is the first out of the gate of two biographers to tackle the many-faceted life of author Frank Moorhouse, who was a well known bon vivant, bushwalker and prolific author of fiction …
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December 29, 2023
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The Case Of The Incredible Vanishing Woman

Anna Funder has already garnered international praise for her non fiction (Stasiland) and fiction (All That I Am). In Wifedom, she does something new and bold, creating a hybrid of genres that brings together …
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September 8, 2023
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A Fraction Too Much Friction

Often acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest singer songwriters, and compared to Paul McCartney, who is a fan, Neil Finn has had a pretty regular life. He comes from a happy and musical …
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August 25, 2023
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The Mischief Maker

She was one of the finest poets Australia has ever produced but Gwen Harwood was also a very mischievous woman, who played literary pranks on editors who failed to publish her work. When marriage …
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August 18, 2023

Representation

Representation

Representation

Representation

© 2024 Caroline Baum

© 2024 Caroline Baum

© 2024 Caroline Baum

© 2024 Caroline Baum

© 2024 Caroline Baum

Books
Jane Novak at Jane Novak Literary Agency
+61 2 9281 8648
jane@janenovak.com

Books:
Jane Novak at Jane Novak Literary Agency
+61 2 9281 8648
jane@janenovak.com

Books:
Jane Novak at Jane Novak Literary Agency
+61 2 9281 8648
jane@janenovak.com

Speaking | Facilitation
Saxtons
saxton.com.au
+61 2 8698 6650

Speaking | Facilitation:
Saxtons
saxton.com.au
+61 2 8698 6650

Speaking | Facilitation:
Saxtons
saxton.com.au
+61 2 8698 6650

I live and work on Dharawal country and pay my respects to the traditional owners of this land, and to elders past, present and emerging.

I live and work on Dharawal country and pay my respects to the traditional owners of this land, and to elders past, present and emerging.

I live and work on Dharawal country and pay my respects to the traditional owners of this land, and to elders past, present and emerging.