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The Remarkable Mrs Reibey
Released the same day as the standard print edition
Title:
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey
Written by:
Grantlee Kieza 
Read by:
Deidre Rubenstein 
Format:
Unabridged CD Audio Book 
Number of CDs:
12 
Duration:
13 hours 19 minutes 
Published:
May 03 2023 
Available Date:
May 03 2023 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9781038641854 
Genres:
Non-fiction; Australian; History 
Publisher:
ABC Audio 
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Bestselling author
Australian author
Award winning journalist

Shortlisted Indie Book Awards / Non Fiction 2024

A vivid portrait of the woman on the Australian $20 note – a cross-dressing horse thief and Australia's first female business tycoon.

As a teenage orphan in England in 1791, Mary Reibey was sentenced to death for stealing a horse. When police cornered her, she was dressed as a boy, and she maintained that disguise until she was unmasked at her trial. Due to her 'tender age', Reibey was spared the hangman's noose and sentenced to seven years' transportation to the colony of New South Wales. With the odds stacked against her, Reibey went on to become Australia's first female business tycoon and the richest woman in the colony, founding the Bank of New South Wales (Westpac), now one of the nation's biggest financial institutions. In this engaging and meticulously researched portrait, the acclaimed author of bestsellers such as Mrs Kelly, Banks, Banjo and Monash, brings to life the woman immortalised on the Australian $20 note.

'Kieza is a prolific and successful biographer ... He has a fluid writing style in which he wears his research lightly, yet it is thoroughly annotated.' (on Banks)
Spectator Australia

‘The author writes with the immediacy of a fine documentary … an easy, informative read, bringing historic personalities to life.’
Ballarat Courier