Thornton McCamish

With its countless adventures, its touch of jet-set glamour and its tragic arc, Moorehead's story is a beguiling one. Thornton McCamish tells it as a quest—intimate, perceptive and superbly entertaining. His funny, ardent book reveals an extraordinary Australian and takes its place in a fresh tradition of contemporary biography. A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive...

Winner, 2017 Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction, NSW Premier's Literary Awards Longlisted, 2016 Walkley Book Award In this dazzling book, Thornton McCamish sets out in search of the remarkable, yet largely forgotten Australian writer Alan Moorehead. A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories of exploration and...