I have to admit that I didn’t pay much attention to this Prize until now.

The National Biography Prize shortlist has been announced which reduced from 12 books to 6.  For those who love to read this genre is probably a good list to start

• Tim Bonyhady Good Living Street: The Fortunes of My Viennese Family, Allen & Unwin
• A J Brown Michael Kirby: Paradoxes & Principles, The Federation Press
• Delia Falconer Sydney, NewSouth Publishing
• Paul Kelly How to Make Gravy, Penguin
• Mark McKenna An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark, Melbourne University Publishing
• Martin Thomas The Many Worlds of R.H. Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist, Allen & Unwin

You can click the links to reserve a copy at Parramatta City Library.