Royal United Services Institute of Victoria Lunchtime Address
October 31 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Topic: On Life So Full of Promise (new publication)
Ross McMullin is an award-winning biographer and acclaimed storyteller.
Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation won the 2024 Age Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for another national prize, the Nib Literary Award.
It follows Ross’s previous lost generation multi-biography Farewell Dear People, which won The Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History and the National Cultural Award.
His other books include his biography of Pompey Elliott, which won multiple awards.
Life So Full of Promise features vivid stories about a popular doctor, a brilliant cricketer and a potential prime minister.
You’ll be entertained, enlightened and moved as Ross brings these extraordinary yet unknown Australians back to life
Coffee and Tea from 12.00 pm. Entrance fee: $10