The Censor’s Library
Shortlist year:
2013
Shortlist category:
Prize for Australian History
Published by:
University of Queensland Press
About the book
The Censor’s Library, by Nicole Moore, is the first comprehensive examination of Australian book censorship, based around the author’s discovery of the secret ‘censor’s library’. Combining scholarship with the narrative tension of a thriller, Moore exposes the scandalous history of censorship in Australia.
About the author
Nicole Moore
Nicole Moore has published widely on Australian literary history, nationally and internationally. Her bibliography Banned in Australia (co-authored with Marita Bullock) was launched on the Austlit web resource in 2008. She was contributing editor to the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature for the period 1900-1950 (Allen and Unwin 2009). She is Associate Professor in English at the University of New South Wales at ADFA in Canberra.
