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(L – R) Chief Executive Officer at the Association for the Blind of WA, Dr Margaret Crowley, Audio Producer, Susie Punch and Mr Kim C Beazley (MLC) gather around at the completion of Mr Beazley’s recent audio recording at the Association for the Blind

New Ambassador to the USA records father’s memoir

20th October 2009

Australian Ambassador to the United States Kim C. Beazley (MP) has recorded the audio version of his father’s memoir Father of the House for the Association for the Blind – Guide Dogs WA.

Beazley, who also agreed to be the Association’s Ambassador, spent nine weeks recording the memoir. In the Association’s media release Beazley said the process was exhausting.

“‘I was very surprised at how difficult it was to record the book.

“My father was a very modest man; audio recording his novel required intense concentration and was very confronting for me,” he said.

Father of the House by Kim E Beazley is the inside story of one of Australia’s longest serving and most influential Ministers in Federal Parliament.

Fremantle Press published the print edition in January 2009, which quickly sold-out. The second edition is in all good bookstores now or can be purchased here.

For more information please contact Claire Miller, cmiller@fremantlepress.com.au

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The National Year of Reading is about turning Australia into a nation of readers. Fremantle City Library invites you the launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at their Outdoor Reading Room.

Indulge your love of reading this Valentine’s Day with a morning tea and talks by Susanna Juliano author of Fremantle Italians and Andrew Relph, author of Not Drowning, Reading

When: 10am, 14 February 2012
Where: Outdoor Reading Room, Kings Square, Fremantle
RSVP by 7 Feb: 08 9432 9766 or frelib@fremantle.wa.gov.au