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The title of this book is a gleeful exclamation uttered by Aussies in response to a good, much-needed downpour of rain. American-born Clifford and his family spent four years touring around Australia, living in Aussie towns and cities, observing Aussie manners, modes and morals - and then compressed his observations into a twelve month 'journal' interspersed with anecdotes. The result is a pulsing, vibrant picture of 'the Land Down Under' - and a travel book with a difference. -
Three volumes in one: The Heart Of London: A collection of newspaper stories he wrote for The Daily Express on his return to Fleet Street from service with the Warwickshire Yeomanry in World War I. Morton investigates Petticoat Lane; the Caledonian market; the free cancer hospital; watches faces in The Strand; the Westminster Abbey waxworks and much more. The Spell Of London: anecdotes from his daily trawls of London, packed with humour and charm combined with acute observation, sympathy and an engaging curiosity. He investigates the Tower of London, Big Ben, Leather Lane Street Market; The Children's Ward ; The Notting Hill Rag Fair and more. The Nights Of London: Anecdotes from his nightly trawls of London with acute observations of the night life he observes; when the 'Tubes' stop; ships at sight; Waterloo Bridge; stage doors; a night in hospital; Fan-Tan; pub crawlers; night clubs and more. -
Port Lincoln is in an area that was visited by the earliest explorers of the Southern Ocean that remained uncharted until Flinders sailed into the bay on his circumnavigation of Australia. He named Boston Bay after a town in his home county of Lincolnshire and Port Lincoln after the county town. During colonisation a strong faction urged that the capital should be established at Port Lincoln. They were defeated by the shortage of fresh water supplies, but Boston Bay proved the ideal entry port for settlers on the Eyre Pensinsula. The township began to thrive as a settlers' base and later as an outlet for produce. The area's history has been preserved in many surviving buildings, each of which has a story linked to the early days of settlement -
A fabulous little book with 250 listings of Australian native flowers to cultivate, with a colour photo for each listing. These are the easy to grow species and will be a success in the garden with a little care and a minimum of fuss. -
Dave Allen: Carolyn Soutar
$10.00The image of Dave Allen is seared into our minds: seated on a tall chair with a glass of J&B, smoking his Gauloises, a fingertip missing as he tells the most hilarious, irreverent stories. But who was the man behind the image? Having worked with him as his tour manager, Carolyn Soutar was able to see how he behaved both on and off screen. Here she discusses the Irish Catholic upbringing that brought him so much anger, which he was able to turn to humour, how he toured with the Beatles in the sixties and became a huge TV star in the following decades. This biography is the most revealing account of the famously private comedian, whose career began in the sixties but who remained influential to a whole new generation of comics in the 21st century. -
The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. One day, the houses will be gone, but even then, traces of the stories and the memories they contained will remain. Edward Hollis takes us to the sites of five great spaces now lost to history and pieces together the fragments he finds there to re-create their vanished chambers. From Rome’s Palatine to the old Palace of Westminster and the Petit Trianon at Versailles and from the sets of the MGM studios in Hollywood to the pavilions of the Crystal Palace and his own grandmother’s sitting room, this is a treasure trove of forgotten places and the people who, for a short time, made them their home. -
Eight centuries of women's correspondence: from Eloise to Abelard, Elizabeth I to Erik of Sweden, Mary Wollstonecraft to Talleyrand; Jane Austen, George Sand, Louisa May Alcott, Virginia Woolf, Anais Nin and many others. All the topics of interest to women are covered and organised by subject matter, covering various topics from politics, work and war, childhood, love and sexual passion. This volume reveals the depth, breadth and diversity of women's lives through the ages. It provides an opportunity to read the real words of real women, in their own intimate language. A fascinating overview of eight hundred years demonstrating what has changed -and what has not.
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Vita Sackville-West: aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse - and iconoclast who defied categorisation. Here are all the triumphs and contradictions of Vita's extraordinary life: her lonely childhood at Knole, her affectionate but ‘open' marriage to Harold Nicolson (during which both husband and wife energetically pursued homosexual affairs, Vita most famously with Virginia Woolf), her literary successes and disappointments and the famous gardens the couple created at Sissinghurst. Her aristocratic background gave her a penchant for costume, play-acting and rebellion which she took to the artistic vanguard of modern Britain. But behind Vita's public achievements and revolutions was an often troubled persona which heroically resisted compromise on every level. Illustrated with black and white and colour archival photographs. -
Almost every month in New South Wales, there are reports of police corruption and a police service under attack, from the criminals it tries to put away and the people it tries to protect and serve. Are the reports mere media sensationalism, or is the New South Wales Police in serious trouble? And if so, where did it go wrong? Priest was a cop who loved his job and gave everything he had to fight crime on the drug-ridden streets of Cabramatta. Yet he found his biggest battle was not with the drug gangs but with the very service he worked for. Eventually he could stand it no longer and spoke out about the bizarre policy decisions, politics, bureaucratic bungling and chronic lack of resources. For this he was labelled a whistle-blower and ultimately railroaded out of the police force. Yet a parlimentary enquiry and the testimony of other officers proved that Tim was not only telling the truth, but this was only the tip of the iceberg of what is really wrong with the New South Wales Police Force. While crime continues to spiral out of control, morale plummets among the rank and file police and experienced cops find they are at the mercy of a promotion system that leaves them nowhere to go but out. Tim teams up with Richard Basham, a man of vast experience through his involvement in a number of advisory boards, criminal investigations and personal friendships with ordinary cops, to reveal the untold story of the police service.
