A life of Bishop W.G. Hilliard. ‘The Bishop’, as he was known in the media, was a household name in the Sydney of the forties and fifties. Poet, orator and headmaster, he excelled in many fields of endeavour, not least in his ministry to men. He rose from the humblest of origins by sheer force of personality, unremitting dedication to his work and depth of faith. He was equally at home with the leaders of the land and the man in the street. He loved cricket, once describing it as his ‘second religion.’ To play the game in life, according to God’s rules, was his aim at all times. He left an imperishable mark on the Australian and New Zealand Church and on the boys of Trinity Grammar School. This biography published on the centenary of his birth and the 75 th anniversary of the school.
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Innings Of Grace: Janet West
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1996 edition. In this volume: The Cult At The End Of The World – The Incredible Story of Aum: David E. Kaplan and Andrew Marshall; Mukiwa – A White Boy In Africa: Peter Godwin; The Lost Treasures Of Troy: Caroline Moorhead; Child Of The Snows: Nicholas Vanier; Below The Parapet - Denis Thatcher: Carol Thatcher. -
I was lucky enough to be born a Catholic and fortunate enough to be Irish. What more could anyone ask? Well, my mother asked much more than that. She wanted a charming, polite, intelligent well-mannered youngest child - instead of the off-beat, rebellious child she had... So began the education proper of Jane and her friend Mary - an education that included illicit smoking. skipping classes, illegally conducting paid tours around the cloisters and sighing after the boys of St. Giles...an education which often strained the patience of Mother Superior but which always holds the delighted attentions of the reader. Filmed as The Trouble With Angels. -
Mothers are very special people and Aussie mums are no exception. Two hundred years ago, European settlers came to this land and battled to establish a new colony and a new country. The women worked side by side with their men to tame the land and build a life. Drought, flood, fire, isolation from the Mother Country, the vast distances between settlements...all of these were part and parcel of life for Australian pioneer women. They faced and overcame them with strength and commitment – and developed a truly Australian way of living. This book looks at how they coped with the climate, the recipes they used, how they made a house a home, how they reared their children and the wisdom they lived by. Illustrated.
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What do you do with the rest of your life, after you’ve achieved brilliance at an early age? This is the question posed by celebrated journalist Chris Wright to some of the most renowned adventurers, athletes and politicians of the twentieth century. What happens if you are an athlete or gymnast and your career peaks at 14, like Nadia Comaneci, who scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic competition – and the second, and the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. What is the next challenge for the likes of adventurer Reinhold Messner, when you have climbed all the really tall mountains? Where do you take your career, when you’ve achieved the impossible and walked on the moon? In this far-reaching and illuminating book, Chris Wright travels the globe, talking to Apollo astronauts, record breakers, world leaders and prisoners of war, people whose defining moments came early in their life, and asks a rare but captivating what happened next? Those interviewed in this book are: Don Walsh; the Moonwalkers; Nadia Comaneci; Reinhold Messner; Gloria Gaynor; United 232; Apollo 8; John McCarthy; Ray Wilson; Russ Ewin, The Sandakan Survivor; Chuck Yeager. -
Life is very different now in the rambling Gilbreth house.When the youngest was two and the oldest eighteen, Dad died and Mother bravely took over his business. Now, to keep the family together, everyone has to pitch in and pinch pennies. The resourceful clan rises to every crisis with a marvelous sense of fun - whether it's battling chicken pox, giving the boot to an unwelcome boyfriend, or even meeting the President. And the few distasteful things they can't overcome - like castor oil - they swallow with good humor and good grace. Belles on Their Toes is the entertaining sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen. -
In 1982, teenager Andrew Tregurtha pleaded guilty to the murder of the Greek Consul-General and a teacher in Sydney's inner city. Six years later he committed suicide at Berrima Gaol. Between the hours of dark and daylight, the lonely hours when prisoners are locked in their cells, Andrew hanged himself. This is his own story. Tregurtha's confession confession begins with the difficulty his family experienced dealing with his undiagnosed hyperactivity and dyslexia, the ensuing confrontations with education authorities and his move to King's Cross as a fifteen year old. Here, unbeknown to his parents, he worked as a male prostitute, eventually falling under the influence of Michael Caldwell, who introduced him to the world of crime in the city. He was sixteen when he was arrested for murder. It is a harrowing tale of life on the edge, of a waif at the Cross, written simply and unglamorously, as he worked towards self-understanding and rehabilitation. Andrew too his own life before publication. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
Tuesday, 20 October: Everyone but the lift boy was playing the market and there was every reason for the party to go on forever. In the centre of the action were the freewheeling entrepreneurs whose spectacular deals encapsulated every virtue and vice of the 80s. Then Wall Street went down in a heap and that was the cue for anyone holding shares in Australia and New Zealand to freak out... This is the only book to explain what happened and to look at the forces that shape the age - the psychology of greed, the politics of money, the cult of the yuppie, the rise of the market hero and the mind-boggling phenomenon of all that easy money to be had. This is a story of damnation and redemption of those who dared to tap into all that tremendous power...a book that no self-interested economist or financier would dare to write, a marshalling of fact and opinion - clear and wickedly mischievous - that will fascinate both insider and outsider alike. -
The stories of five pioneer families of the central west of New South Wales. The Coates family of Bathurst and Kings Plains; The Luck family of Blayney; the Smith family of Gallymont; the Green family of Neville; and the Healey Family of Mandurama. Illustrated with archival black and white photographs.
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Born and raised in a house on Tinakori Road in the Wellington suburb of Thorndon, Mansfield was the third child in the Beauchamp family. She began school in Karori with her sisters before attending Wellington Girls' College. The Beauchamp girls later switched to the elite Fitzherbert Terrace School, where Mansfield became friends with Maata Mahupuku, who became a muse for early work and with whom she is believed to have had a passionate relationship. Mansfield wrote short stories and poetry under a variation of her own name, Katherine Mansfield, which explored anxiety, sexuality and existentialism alongside a developing New Zealand identity. When she was 19, she left New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Lady Ottoline Morrell and others in the orbit of the Bloomsbury Group. Mansfield was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis in 1917. She died in France aged 34. -
In her early years as a sex worker, having more sex than ‘most people have had hot dinners; Biggs’ sexual exploits were legendary – once advertising for a sugar daddy. Since then, she has found the way to deeply fulfilling sex, Barbara also draws on the grass roots wisdom from her mother’s 30 years in the fantasy phone call business. Here she tells us why people read finance and sex books, but don’t follow the advice. Because making money (and sex) isn’t about strategies, it’s about emotional qualities like fear, risk taking ability, going against the crowd and your underlying beliefs. She goes where others fear to tread – and this book just might change your life. Biggs has been a writer for the Australian Financial Review and Melbourne Herald-Sun finance section. She became a millionaire through property investment. -
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The Roaring Twenties? The Gay Twenties? The Dull Twenties? The Treacherous Twenties? Was it the gilded Jazz Age luxuriating in post-War euphoria or or the first decade of the modern world freeing itself from the traditions that came to an end in the trenches of France and Belgium several years earlier? This is an attempt to answer these questions in a colourful panorama. Anglo recounts the decade: how the revolution in media and transport touched ordinary people and why a new mass culture arose despite the attempts of custom and vested interest to ensure otherwise. In the cinema the animated cartoon and documentary made their first appearances; replacing the stage and music hall. In Britain, political controversy raged and the country divided over the General Strike of 1926. In Weimar Germany crippling inflation led to civilised anthropophagy as the masses struggled to feed themselves. In the U.S., jazz, Prohibition and the mobs ruled the day. Illustrated with black and white and colour archival photographs. -
It takes more than a fit of the vapours for a giant airline to ground a multimillion-dollar jumbo jet. What investigative writer John Fuller stumbled upon was a jet-age ghost story – crews refused to fly the plane because of the recurring apparitions of a dead pilot and flight engineer from a crashed sister ship. It was the famed Lockheed Tristar; the first jumbo jet ever to crash, in the Florida Everglades, with the loss of 101 persons. In his investigation, Fuller is led inexorably to repeated eyewitness experiences of the dead men’s reappearances before flight crews. After a classic reconstruction of the mysterious crash itself, he interviews scores of airline flight personnel and explores every facet of every “ghost” report. A confirmed skeptic who has always written with professional thoroughness on both scientific and life subjects, Fuller uncovers startling evidence of contact with the spirit of the dead flight engineer Don Repo. It is a spine-tingling, persuasive account with implications of spiritual realities that are of increasing interest in today’s world of ever more extraordinary scientific breakthroughs. -
Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al, and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth. Of course there were things Bryson missed about Blighty - the Open University, Boxing Day, Branston pickle, and irony, to name a few. But any sense of loss was countered by the joy of rediscovering some of the forgotten treasures of his childhood: the glories of a New England autumn; the pleasingly comical sight of oneself in shorts, and motel rooms where you can generally count on being awakened in the night by a piercing shriek and the sound of a female voice pleading, "Put the gun down, Vinnie, I'll do anything you say." When an old friend asked him to write a weekly dispatch from New Hampshire for the Mail on Sunday's Night & Day magazine, Bill firmly turned him down. So firm was he, in fact, that gathered here is eighteen months' worth of his popular columns about that strangest of phenomena - the American way of life. Whether discussing the dazzling efficiency of the garbage disposal unit, the exoticism of having your groceries bagged for you, the jaw-slackening direness of American TVV or the smug pleasure of being able to eat beef without having to wonder if when you rise from the table you will walk sideways into the wall, Bill Bryson brings his inimitable brand of bemused wit to bear on the world's richest and craziest country. -
The Edwardian era marked a great turning point in modern British history. In many spheres it produced the culmination of British power and influence which had been growing rapidly in the nineteenth century. Yet it also witnessed the beginnings of the decline which was accelerated through the twentieth century. Abroad, the British Empire reached its zenith during the Edwardian years but the military challenge of Germany was growing stronger. At home, the apparently dominant Liberal and Conservative parties were being threatened by a new political force in the Socialists. Many misconceptions about the period, social, economic, political, and diplomatic have gained currency. At one extreme, it has been seen as a Golden age, shattered by the sudden impact of war in 1914; at the other extreme, it has been portrayed as an age of crisis, its society already collapsing under pressure of internal problems. This survey presents a vivid portrait of the turmoil and vibrance of British society at the beginning of the twentieth century and suggests ways in which the history of this period has shaped the subsequent development of Britain through the century. -
This biography of William of Orange and Mary Stuart was published to mark the 300th anniversary of the Glorious Revolution - the accession to the throne of William of Orange, a Dutch soldier-prince and Mary Stuart, daughter of the deposed Catholic King James II. Their ascendancy to the throne in 1688 heralded the beginning of an epoch of immense achievement and an English monarchy that overshadowed every European ruler other than Louis XIV of France as well as the confirmation of the powers of Parliament - the era became known as the Glorious Revolution. Illustrated. -
In the years between 1860 and 1880, dozens of bushrangers, some bold and famous, some little more than petty thieves, rampaged across the New South Wales and Victorian countryside - looting and murdering, bailing up travellers, harassing police, terrorising settlers. Perhaps the most famous of these in the 1860s was a handsome young man named Ben Hall, the first official outlaw under a new Act, shot dead by police in 1865. Other members of his gang, "Flash" Johnny Gilbert, Johnny Vane, O'Meally and Dunn, were all captured or shot by their pursuers. Also outlawed were Frederick Lowry, the ferocious Daniel Morgan, and Fred Ward, better known throughout New South Wales as "Thunderbolt". Finally, in this second volume of his History of Australian Bushranging, Charles White examines at length the incredible story of the Kelly Gang - Ned, Dan, Steve Hart and Joe Byrne.
