Australian Canberra Press Gallery journalist Alan Reid was both a player and an observer of the great Labor split of the 1950s. From his experience, he not only came to a very dark view of political players on all sides but also wrote a novel – The Bandar Log – depicting the machinations of both…

Helen Trinca is an author and Managing Editor of The Australian. Her early books were co-written – Waterfront: The Battle that Changed Australia and Better than Sex: How a Whole Generation Got Hooked on Work. She has now published the biography of Australian expat writer Madeleine St John, title Madeleine  – The Life of Madeleine…