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The fortunes of the Making of Julia Gillard, so far

Jacquie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:25:37 +0000

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 [...] Related posts:

Life on the road

Jacquie — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:58:42 +0000

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 [...] Related posts:

From Crikey.com.au

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:09:22 +0000

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

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Waiting for Julia…

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:09:44 +0000

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 [...] Related posts:

Press Release

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:45:59 +0000

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 – [...] Related posts:

The Making of Julia Gillard

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:59:33 +0000

Writing the life story of an Australian woman politician in mid career was a very different kind of project for me. I had already written two biographies of women – editor Beatrice Davis and social reformer and musician Hephzibah Menuhin – but they had been whole life stories. Julia Gillard is only in her forties, [...] Related posts: