Inspiring Australians: The first fifty years of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishers, (October 2015)

The Churchill Trust has now awarded over 4,000 travelling Fellowships to men and women in a vast variety of fields, enabling them to return and enrich their Australian communities with what they have learned overseas. This book outlines a history of the Trust and covers the adventures of some Churchill Fellows over five decades in fields as diverse as health, farming, zoos, ballet dancing and furniture making.

Women in Politics: showing the way in 2010 (co-authored)

2010, Canberra: Australian Local Government Association.

The Australian Local Government Association produced [this] booklet to encourage greater participation of women in political life in all levels of government. The publication tells the stories of outstanding women, to inspire other women to follow in their footsteps. The Governor-General, Her Excellency Quentin Bryce, AC, has lent her support by contributing the Foreword to the book. The book also includes a historical overview of women in politics, a review of what is happening across Australia at local government level and profiles of women such as Premier Kristina Keneally, the Hon Tanya Plibersek, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Councillor Rose Jackson and Indigenous Councillor Joyce Crombie. (From the National Library of Australia online catalogue.)

Creative Lives: Personal Papers of Australian Writers and Artists

2009, Canberra: National Library of Australia.

Miles Franklin, Xavier Herbert, Christina Stead, Patrick White, Dorothy Hewett, Kevin Gilbert, Thomas Keneally and Mem Fox all have stories hidden in the Manuscripts Collection of the National Library of Australia. Creative Lives brings together some of their stories and those of other well-known Australian literary figures in a book generously illustrated with personal photographs, sketches and paintings, diaries and drafts, and cards and letters - neatly typed or scrawled and claret-stained. Through her travels among the papers of 22 authors, Penelope Hanley deepens our insights into their creative lives - their feelings and foibles, their fears and triumphs. Read about convict James Tucker's gruesome floggings, Henry Lawson's sporadic imprisonment and alcoholism, and how Judy Cassab outwitted the Nazis. Was Christina Stead really 'all genius and no talent'? Why did Eric Rolls turn down the opportunity to make a killing on the stock market? Find out the answers to these questions and discover much more about the famous Australians in Creative Lives. (From the National Library of Australia online bookshop.)

Reviews and articles about Creative Lives

• "Penelope Hanley's Creative Lives is a lavish production highlighting the pleasures available for the researcher in the manuscripts collection of the National Library of Australia." Australian Literary Review, June 2010.
• "Each of Hanley's chapters adroitly mixes a concise summary of its subject's achievments with some key or quirky episodes drawn from the manuscripts at the National Library." Australian Book Review, May 2010.
• "What Hanley exquisitely executes is the balance between the generous and beautifully presented photographs, sketches, letters and pages of hand-written manuscript, and her own lively retelling of the writer's personal stories." Bookseller+Publisher Oct/Nov 2009.
• "...if Creative Lives detours along some dark pathways, it is more intent on celebrating the light. It underlines the communality that exists among Australian writers..." The Canberra Times (Panorama),December 2009.

Full House

1993, Sydney: Simon & Schuster.

A comedy of manners set in contemporary Canberra featuring Holly Baker, film reviewer and artists' model. A zany, energetically funny novel, Full House is about relationships and the pursuit of happiness.

Full House is a curious and fascinating read - a young, fresh and sunny book.

Reviews and articles about Full House

• "A light and lively novel..." New Woman, September 1993.
• "A paean to Canberra, it is an upbeat, urban love story..." ANU Reporter July 1993.
• "Art imitating life? Well, yes, but only up to a point." Sunday Telegraph June 1993.
• "Full House is full of ideas, energetic, contemporary..." Canberra Times, May 1993.

Youth Enterprise: A resource bibliography

(1988) Canberra: National Clearinghouse on Local Employment Initiatives.101 pp.

The annotated entries in this bibliography provide access to monographs, serial articles and audio-visual resources dealing with the theory and practice of selected issues relating to entrepreneurial activities in high schools.