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All the stars of the screen are featured in this annual, together with the film releases of the year and all the glamour of the premières attended by Royalty. There's Richard Burton, Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Anthony Quinn, Danny Kaye, John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Kim Novak and so many more. There's studio photographs, candid shots, stills and behind the scenes, between the takes and on location. There's even retro photographs and tributes to the silent screen greats. Cover shows Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr in The King And I. -
All the stars of the screen are featured in this annual, together with the film releases of the year and all the glamour of the premières attended by Royalty. There's Doris Day, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Tina Louise, Bob Hope, Yul Brynner and many more. There's articles on horror films, interviews and candid pics of the famous and those who worked behind the scenes. Cover shows Doris Day and Richard Widmark. Illustrated. -
At the age of six, Kerry McGinnis lost her mother. Her father, left with four young children to raise, gathered up his family and left the city to go doving. For the next fifteen years, the McGinnis clan traveled the continent, droving, horse breaking and living off the land. Kerry grew up in the harsh outback, and the animals that inhabit the land became her closest friends. With the memory of her absent mother ever present, Kerry begins her difficult journey into young womanhood. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/heart-country-kerry-mcginnis/
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Just as the Great Depression struck, Guy Austin, English radio broadcaster, moved his wife and two children and set out on an adventure! They travelled America, settled in different places, secured any work they could get, made observations of Americans and American life and generally - well, they had an adventure. Published in 1934, this is a window on the world of America at a significant period of history, as seen through the eyes of a matter-of-fact Englishman. -
More than just the life of Mungo, he gives us compassion and imaginative understanding of scanty memoirs of his family's mix of Scottish and German blood in Wales in the 1870s, the family that ensued and its emigration to Australia. To Mungo, home was Point Piper, with holidays in the Blue Mountains but to his family, 'Home' meant Britain and Germany. He paints a vivid picture of school in 1920s Sydney; a sedate period on the pre-war Sydney Morning Herald; running battles on the wartime Army journal SALT; post-war Britain still corseted in class; and controversial years on A.B.C. radio and television. Mungo had one son, Mungo VI who is well known as a political writer and satirist.
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Clive James began keeping a verse diary for 1982 and recounts the year - his own and world events - in verse! Everything gets a mention - from Maggie Thatcher to the birth of Prince William, Prince Andrew's pursuit of Koo Stark, the ongoing Lebanan/Israel conflict, the invasion of the Queen's bedroom in the small hours by Michael Fagan and the Falklands War. -
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Pommies’ Picnic: Patrick Lort-Phillips
$25.00$20.00The author and his wife took off around Australia to cover over 20,000 miles in a Land Rover to determine whether Australia was really a hard and uncivilised land. They found the exact opposite - meeting friendliness, hospitality and had a wonderful time observing the unique Aussie way of life, politics, immigration and development. The narrative includes many personal observations about Australian social issues and encounters with Aboriginal people in Alice Springs and Hermannsberg in central Australia. -
Founded circa 800 B.C. - or possibly earlier - the city of Pompeii has a rich, vital history beginning with a small permanent settlement and ending as a bustling, thriving port town/holiday centre that was destroyed by the epic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Thanks to ever-improving and evolving excavation techniques, we can 'see' what it had been and get an all-round picture of its politics, people and everyday life - even down to the graffiti-artists of the day. This books gives as much of the history that is so far known; its discovery in 1594, dismissed as of no importance and its rediscovery in 1748...and incorrectly identified at Stabiae. But it wasn't long before there was undisputed evidence that the site was Pompeii. The excavation of this long-lost town, together with its sister town of Herculaneum continues to this day and we know now a great deal about the life of Pompeii - its graffiti bandits, trade, produce, household religions, water supply, cuisine, womens' roles in Pompeiian society, art, gardens and so much more. With contributions by: Jean-Paul Descœudres; Penelope Allison; Robert Carson; Peter Connor; Kay Francis; J. Richard Green; B. Dexter Hoyos; Estelle Lazer; Beryl Rawson; Edward Robinson; Frank Sear; F. Lin Sutherland and Louise Zarmati. Illustrated with colour and black and white photographs, maps and sketches. -
Porridge is regarded by many critics as Britain’s best sitcom. Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale were perfectly cast as the experienced lag and the naive first time offender and their developing relationship had viewers gripped until the doors of Salde Prison closed its doors for the final time in 1977. This is the real story behind the much-loved series. Illustrated with archival photographs, this ultimate companion reveals all and includes profiles and interviews with the actors, directors and other members of the production team. All 21 episodes are detailed in full and Going Straight, the sequel to Porridge, is also extensively covered.
