Collection: Blanche d'Alpuget

Blanche d’Alpuget is the acclaimed author of biographies, novels and essays.

Her work, Robert J. Hawke: A Biography, is considered one of the finest examples of political biography in Australia. Prior to that, she wrote Mediator, A Biography of Sir Richard Kirby, which was for many years used as a text for teaching industrial relations.

Her novels include Monkeys in the Dark, set in Indonesia and a university text; Turtle Beach, set in Malaysia and made into a feature movie; Winter in Jerusalem, winner of the Australasian division of the Commonwealth Literature Award; and White Eye, published in 1993, a novel she personally disliked, that foretold a global pandemic from a laboratory-created bug.

Her books have won a host of literary prizes.

She also wrote the controversial essays On Lust and On Longing and a series on King Henry II of England and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. The series is called The Young Lion, The Lion Rampant, The Lions’ Torment, The Lioness Wakes, and The Cubs Roar.