Best Biographies

Life Sentences Podcast by Caroline Baum

Dec 11, 202547:02Arts

In a first for Life Sentences, host Caroline Baum welcomes a panel of four Australian biographers to discuss the biographies they have read and enjoyed recently. -Ryan Butta chooses Anthony Sharwood's hybrid travelogue b...

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