'Expatriate Alan Moorehead was Australia's most famous writer of the 1950s and '60s. An international celebrity, his books spilling into millions, the subject of several biographies (my own among them) he has, unlike that exuberant trio Clive James, Germaine Greer and Barry Humphries, who fixed their names in Britain some three decades later, dropped from view among younger readers in his own country. ...'