Brenda Niall: 3 books
by Brenda Niall
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Winner of the 2016 Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal and the National Biography Award.
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...
Can You Hear the Sea?
My Grandmother's Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
**‘An affectionate tribute to someone who quietly but firmly shaped her own place in the world.’ Books+**Publishing
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...
True North
The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Awards, Australian History Prize, 2012
Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, 2012
Shortlisted, Australian Book Industry Awards, Biography of the Year, 2013
Shortlisted, WA Premier's Book Awards, 2012
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack...