October 18th, 2024Clunes booktown on Sunday returns

Coming up November 10, Clunes’ Booktown on Sunday series will feature Ross McMullin, author of “Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation”.

Ross McMullin (pictured above) is an award-winning historian, biographer and storyteller.

His latest book, Life So Full of Promise, has been awarded The Age Book of the Year Award. It’s his second multi-biography about Australia’s lost generation of World War I, following Farewell Dear People, which was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History and the National Cultural Award.

McMullin’s free guest talk is part of the ongoing Clunes Booktown on Sunday series that Creative Clunes is hosting on the second Sunday each month, to tie in with the town’s Farmers and Makers Market.

The series features guest author talks held in Creative Clunes’ historic home at the Clunes Railway Station (pictured above).

McMullin’s book features a rich cast of interwoven stories set in WWI era including a talented barrister whose outstanding leadership enabled a momentous victory in France, an eminent newspaper editor who kept his community informed about the war while his sons were in the trenches and an energetic soldiers’ mother who became a political activist and a Red Cross dynamo.

There’s also an admired farmer whose unit was rushed to the rescue in the climax of the conflict; the close sisters from Melbourne who found their lives transformed, a popular doctor who was more fervently mourned than any other Australian casualty, and a bohemian Scandinavian blonde who disrupted one of Sydney’s best-known families.

Clunes Booktown on Sunday with special guest Ross McMullin will take place at 1.30pm at the Clunes Railways Station building rooms with more information and bookings to the free event available through the Creative Clunes website.