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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. -
An Open Book: Monica Dickens
$12.00The great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens has established herself in book after book as a brilliant, compassionate and penetrating observer of people. Here, she observes herself, objectively and humorously, in the story of her life and work as a servant and nurse, journalist and friend, wife and mother and finally, as a writer.
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Laughton gifted the world with a number of universally recognised film characters: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Captain Bligh, Henry Hobson and Henry VIII, as well as the unfinished epic Claudius. This bio traces a fifty year film and stage career; from West End hits and Old Vic classics, to Broadway and Hollywood, working for the great directors and producers of Hollywood. He was described as ugly, difficult and yet magnetic and endured a lifetime battle to come to terms with his homosexuality as well as a thirty marriage to actress Elsa Lanchester. Black and white photos, as well as an intense filmography, playography and bibliography. -
Larry Adler raised the mouth-organ from children's toy and music-hall turn to big time film and show business. He appeared alongside Eddie Cantor, Fred Astaire, George Gershwin; he played at special performances for President Roosevelt, the King of Sweden and the Prince of Wales. He toured with Jack Benny and Ingrid Bergman during the war. Then came McCarthyism and the destruction of his career. He moved to England and continued into journalism, and was nominated for an Oscar for his film score of Genevieve. Billie Holliday once remarked of his talent: "Man, you don't play that f***ing thing, you SING it!" Autographed by Larry Adler. -
A Grumpy perspective on the daily grind. Whether we are celebrity chef or hapless waiter, engineer or oily rag, commissioning editor or TV producer, all of us have a whole daily wagon-load of s**t to deal with in the name of work. From boardroom to boredom, from 'what's the point?' to PowerPoint, from 9 to 5 to P45. And that's what this book from uber-grump Stuart Prebble is all about; the utter everyday relentless crapulence of working for 'the man', or indeed 'the woman'. It's not possible in a book of this size to include ALL the grumps arising from the working day - the office politics, the shortcomings of IT, the interminable meetings and some of your colleagues' weirder habits, but he is giving it a go. Grumpy? I'll say we are. Illustrated by Noel Ford. -
Rum Rebellion: H.V. Evatt
$20.00A study of the overthrow of Governor Bligh by John Macarthur and the New South Wales Corps. In January 1808, Major Johnston and the officers of the New South Wales Corps, urged on by John Macarthur, made an armed attack on Government House in Sydney, arrested Governor William Bligh and took control of the colony. Apart from being an act of mutiny, the Rum Rebellion was also the culmination of a massive confrontation between two strong willed and powerful men: Bligh, the strong-willed disciplinarian and John Macarthur, wealthy merchant, pastoralist and ex-member of the Corps. -
Bragg met Laurence Olivier hoping to make a full-length television profile of him. Olivier was elderly and unwell. Together, they watched clips of his great roles. At the end, his eyes wet from tears, he said, "OK, old boy. Let's give it a go.' For the next eighteen months, Bragg took notes, watched films, archive footage and out-takes. He spoke to John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Ralph Richardson, Lady Olivier (Joan Plowright) and dozens more. But above all, he spoke to the man himself. A portrait of the art and mind of one of the greatest actors of the times. -
The hilarious story of how Graham 'Screw' Turner established a bus touring company using old converted double-decker buses. From humble beginnings in London 1973, Screw, together with a crew of colonial larrikins, builds up a fleet of 100 deckers. Screw, Spy, Bill Speaking, Wombat. Filthy, Grilly, Budgie, the mysterious Graham James Lloyd and other incorrigible crew members lead their unsuspecting punters on riotous escapades to the far flung, exotic corners of the world. Today, Graham 'Screw' Turner is one of Australia's wealthiest men and is the CEO of Flight Centre, which he began in the 1980s. With caricatures by Bill Leak and cartoons by Warren Brown. Illustrated with black and white photographs and newspaper clippings. -
Long before his death in 1988, Robert A. Heinlein had expressed the desire to have a selection of his letters published, after he was gone, and entitled 'Grumbles from the Grave'. But increasing pressure from his work and a series of major illnesses made it impossible for him to undertake the job of editing this himself. His wife, Virginia, took on the labour of fulfilling his wish. These are his letters from his first one to an editor in 1939, through the long years of writing for pulp magazines, to his conquest of slick magazines and for major book publishers. Many of his later letters are to his long-time agent, Lurton Blassingame. It's a record of his thoughts and opibnions on publishers. travel, juvenile novels, adult novels, fiction, work habits, fan mail and house-building; reviews, his writing methods and the ethics he saw in writing good science fiction. A fascinating insight into Heinlein the man and Heinlein the writer.
