Sylvia Martin has spent decades writing about women who lived in the early part of the 20th century. Find out how a photograph sparked the inspiration for the subject of her latest biography Double Act.

Join us in reading 'Luna Roo the Kangaroo Baller' on the 27 May!

Discover love, creativity, politics, family and more with historically and culturally significant letters from writers such as Jane Austen, Judith Wright, Henry Lawson, Mem Fox and Senator Neville Bonner AO, as well as inspiring new letters from modern Australians like Kate Forsyth, David Brooks, Maggie Mackellar, Ranjana Srivastava and Sam Wallman.

Vivien Johnson, Charlotte Phillipus and Samantha Disbray

Dr Sylvia Martin

Thomas Higgs with Colin Hall and illustrated by Wally Wilfred

Jane Jolly

National Library of Australia

Libby Hathorn and Jude Fell

Ann Stephen and ADS Donaldson