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Ross McMullin
Ross McMullin is an award-winning historian, biographer, and…
DiscoverLife So Full of Promise shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year
Scribe is proud to share that Life So Full of Promise by Ross McMullin has been shortlisted for this year’s The Age Book of the Year Prize for Nonfiction.
The nonfiction judges, Simon Caterson and Joy Damousi, have described the books on the shortlist as those that ‘stood out for the quality of writing and the dedication the author brought to their subject.’ They describe McMullin’s multibiography as a ‘painstakingly researched and profoundly empathetic micro-history.’
The winner of each category will receive $10,000, and will be announced on May 8.
Congratulations to Ross and all of the other shortlisted writers.
Life So Full of Promise
WINNER OF THE 2024 AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
Acclaimed historian and biographer Ross McMullin has again combined prodigious research and narrative flair in this sequel to Farewell, Dear People, the winner of multiple awards including the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History.
Life So Full of Promise, his second multi-biography about Australia’s lost generation of World War I, features a collection of interwoven stories set in that defining era.
The rich cast includes a talented barrister whose outstanding leadership enabled a momentous victory in France; an eminent newspaper…
