2016 National Biography Award shortlist announced

The shortlist for Australia’s most prestigious biography prize was announced yesterday. The shortlisted titles are: Battarbee and Namatjira, Martin Edmond (Giramondo) Comrade Ambassador: Whitlam’s Beijing Envoy, Stephen FitzGerald (Melbourne University Publishing) Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather, Karen Lamb (University of Queensland Press) Mannix, Brenda Niall (Text Publishing) Bearing Witness: The Remarkable Life of Charles…