Well, it’s been four slightly battle-scarred months since The Making of Julia Gillard hit the  bookshops, if that’s not too energetic a way of describing what has actually happened. Apart from the fact that someone who is currently writing a competing biography was asked, ridiculously,  to review mine in The Monthly — what part of [...]

Promoting a book is a most peculiar thing to be doing.

I’ve just come back from a week of it, spruiking The Making of Julia Gillard. It’s a very small taste of what it might be like to be Gillard herself: lots of people asking the same questions, having to behave as if you’ve never heard [...]

I’ve been doing interviews for the book all week, and it’s very cheering to see something like this … thanks, First Dog.

I don’t really intend this blog to be solely political commentary – lots of other things will be covered as time goes on. But at the moment I am waiting for The Making of Julia Gillard to sidle onto the shelves of bookshops around the country. This limbo period can be a really difficult time [...]

The Making of Julia Gillard

Jacqueline Kent
Penguin Viking paperback $32.95
Released 21 September 2009

The Making of Julia Gillard is the first complete biography of Australia’s most powerful woman. Julia Gillard is an exceptional Australian political figure.
The first woman to be deputy prime minister [[ and tipped by many to get the top job in the future – [...]