Currently reading Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin

Previous books include:

Program for 2008

Tuesday 26 February - Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Tuesday 25 March - The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad.
Tuesday 29 April - The Himmler Brothers. a German Family History by Katrin Himmler
Tuesday 27 May - London. The biography by Peter Ackroyd
Tuesday 24 June - Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
Tuesday 29 July - Today we discussed Brenda Niall's Inaugural Seymour Lecture in Biography, 2005: Walking upon Ashes. The footsteps of a modern biographer. The Seymour Lectures were established by our own John Seymour and his wife. 2008's Seymour Lecture was by biographer Richard Holmes. See http://rsh.anu.edu.au/events/2008/seymourlecture/index.php )

Heather Rossiter's Lady Spy, Gentleman Explorer, a biog of Herbert Dyce Murphy.

The Flower Hunter: the Remarkable Life of Ellis Rowan by Christine and Michael Morton-Evans.

Program for 2007

Tuesday 27 February - Two Lives by Vikram Seth
Tuesday 24 April - Leonard Woolf: A Life by Victoria Glendinning
Tuesday 29 May - Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi
Tuesday 29 June - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Tuesday 31 July - Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Tuesday 30 October - Georgiana [McRae]: Painter, Diarist, Pioneer by Brenda Niall
Tuesday 27 November - Father and Son by Edmund Gosse

Program for 2006
Tuesday 25 July at 11.00 am - Breakfast with Beaverbrook by Ann Moyal
Tuesday 29 August at 10:00 am - Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose
Tuesday 26 September at 10:00 am - White Butterfly by Colin McPhedran
Tuesday 31 October at 10:00 am - Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tuesday 28 November at 10:00 am - Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey

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