Life So Full of Promise wins The Age Book of the Year
Scribe is thrilled to share that Life So Full of Promise by Ross McMullin has won the 2024 The Age Book of the Year Prize for Nonfiction.
The nonfiction judges, Simon Caterson and Joy Damousi, describe McMullin’s multibiography as ‘a painstakingly researched and a profoundly empathetic micro-history showing how the full human cost of war goes far beyond those lives lost in violent conflict and the people immediately affected who are closest to them … in the hands of a leading historian, aspects of a nation’s history assumed to be familiar may yield new and deeper insights that help to explain the world we live in today.’
Congratulations to Ross.
Life So Full of Promise
WINNER OF THE 2024 AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
Acclaimed historian and biographer Ross McMullin has again combined prodigious research and narrative flair in this sequel to Farewell, Dear People, the winner of multiple awards including the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History.
Life So Full of Promise, his second multi-biography about Australia’s lost generation of World War I, features a collection of interwoven stories set in that defining era.
The rich cast includes a talented barrister whose outstanding leadership enabled a momentous victory in France; an eminent newspaper…