‘Sway a crowd, wear a martyr’s crown’ My piece in The Guardian on RD Meagher, stained men, and the playbook for rehabilitation: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

‘Sway a crowd, wear a martyr’s crown’ My piece in The Guardian on RD Meagher, stained men, and the playbook for rehabilitation: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Our May Focus On is here featuring books by Renata Adler, Linus Liu, Patrick Mullins, Adrian Mackenzie, Sarah Rice and Niki Savva. marion.ink/focus-on #FocusOn @patrickmullins.bsky.social @hachetteaus.bsky.social @scribepub.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social @simonschusteranz.bsky.social

Great to see my new book, The Stained Man, in Guardian Australia’s best new books of May 2026!

Inside Story, based on my launch speech for Patrick Mullins's The Stained Man. inside.org.au/bombast-of-b...

I spoke yesterday with David Marr, on Late Night Live, about my new book, The Stained Man, and all things scandalous and political in Australia in the early twentieth century. Listen here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

My new book, The Stained Man, was launched last night. Frank Bongiorno, whose work has enriched so many peoples’ understanding of Australian history - and certainly mine - launched it. I’m grateful to everyone who attended. And I’m so happy the book is out in the world.

Fabulous!! @patrickmullins.bsky.social !

Happy author with copies!

I was delighted when one of this country’s most insightful commentators on politics, Sean Kelly, endorsed my next book, The Stained Man. Out 28 April with Scribe.

So, my new book, The Stained Man, comes out on 28 April, thanks to the good people at Scribe Publications. Here are a few events and publicity things that I'll be at. Would be great to see you there!

What Mark Twain said about the scandal at the heart of my next book, The Stained Man. Out 28 April through Scribe.

My next book, The Stained Man, will be published 28 April by Scribe Publications. Here’s what Australia’s leading historian, Frank Bongiorno, said about it:

I wrote about Carla Kaplan’s new biography, ‘Troublemaker: The fierce, unruly life of Jessica Mitford’. See it here: insidestory.org.au/the-other-mi...

My new book, The Stained Man, is being published next May by the good folks at Scribe. Here's the cover:

My new book, The Stained Man, is being published next May by the good folks at Scribe. Here's the cover:

I reviewed the new, second volume of David Day’s biography of Bob Hawke, for ABR: www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

I reviewed a new biography of the historian Asa Briggs, by Adam Sisman, for Inside Story: insidestory.org.au/now-down-to-...

Wrote about Zachary Leader’s book, Ellmann’s Joyce: insidestory.org.au/richard-ellm...

Wrote about Blake Bailey’s new book, Canceled Lives, for Inside Story: insidestory.org.au/okay-youre-h...