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Margaret Rutherford was always known for her role as the wacky Madame Arcati in Noel Coward's amusing ghost story Blithe Spirit, yet she was so much more than Madame Arcati. She appeared in many character roles on stage and screen in her 40 year career and was adored by her husband, fellow character actor Stringer Davis. They did not marry until she was in her fifties - Davis' mother did not approve of Margaret and the wedding was postponed until after Mrs. Davis' death. Stringer supported her many whims and love of animals - even to the point of her bringing home the scaly star of An Alligator Named Daisy for the Christmas holidays. Yet only a very few were aware of Margaret's dark side - her recurring melancholia, nervous collapses, her hopeless romantic pursuits of much younger men and the fear that she would go the way of the parents she had barely known - the mother who had committed suicide and the father, convicted of the murder of his own father, who had ended his days in an asylum for the criminally insane. The author was the adopted daughter of the Rutherfords who was allegedly male gender-assigned at birth but who always claimed that she was a woman, underwent corrective surgery in order to be assigned as female gender, although there has always been a certain amount of speculation and rumour regarding her gender. Her marriage to John-Paul Simmons, a young black motor mechanic on 21 January 1969 was the first legal interracial marriage in South Carolina. -
Well, perhaps not quite 1001 - but it certainly a fascinating, hand-picked cross-section of classic conversation from Andrew Denton's Enough Rope. Many feature previously unreleased material and are guaranteed to please and inspire; this is an eminently browsable and instantly addictive book. Among the guests are Cate Blanchett, Bono, Steve Irwin,Alan Bond, Elton John, Mel Brooks, Jane Goodall, Matt Lucas and David Williams, Tim Winton and Michael 'Parky' Parkinson. With black and white photographs. -
Paul Rusesabagina was an ordinary man - a quiet manager of the luxurious Hotel Milles Collines in Rwanda. But on April 6, 1994, mobs with machetes became cold-blooded murderers and commenced a slaughter of 800,000 civilians in just 100 days. Read that again - 800,000 citizens. Rusesabagina, with incredible courage, refused to bow to the madness that surrounded him. Confronting killers with a combination of diplomacy, flattery, and deception, he offered shelter to more than twelve hundred members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, while homicidal mobs raged outside with machetes. In his autobiography, he tells his story and explores the complexity of Rwanda's history and the insanity that turned friends and neighbours into killers. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-hotel-rwanda-don-cheadle-sophie-okonedo-nick-nolte/ -
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live. -
One thing makes this a stand-out gardening book - the author, while having due respect for botanical science, is inclined to go her own way so much of the information in this book comes from her own beliefs. Therefore it is a very practical and interesting book. She covers garden planning and structure, small gardens, rock gardens, propagation, seedlings, lawns, trees and shrubs, camellias, azaleas, rhododendrons, lilacs and roses, annuals and perennials, bulbs and tubers, climbers, vegetables and fruit and so much more - and all for Australian conditions. With colour and black and white photographs. -
Plenty of commonsense information on all things gardening: tips and tricks, lawns, trees, pruning, grafting and budding, shrubs, rock gardens and Alpine plants, azaleas and rhododendrons, camellias, fuchsias, roses, vegetables and Australian natives. With illustrations, colour and black and white photos. -
A beautifully illustrated practical gardening book with chapters covering everything from planning your garden, tools, lawns and grasses, ground covers, annuals, perennials and bulbs, shrubs and roses, hedges, climbers, trees, fruit trees and vines, home-grown vegetables and herbs, water gardens. cacti and succulents, children's gardens indoor and balcony plants, bush/greenhouse management, orchids, bonsai, pests and diseases, controlling weeds, how to propagate and how to prune. There's a planting almanac, a guide to climatic zones, botanical terms and even the origins of plant names. Beautiful colour photographs. -
A real gem for a sports or bowls fanatic - a celebration of this historical sporting event that Australia was the first nation to host. This volume contains photographs of the Championship Executive Committee, the Organising Committee, articles on the Leagues Bowling Club at Kyeemagh, the game of bowls, ladies' bowling, David Bryant, Neil Benjamin, how bowls became a business, conditions of play and of course - individual photographs of the team members who competed: Australia, Canada, England, Fiji, Hong Kong, Ireland, Jersey, Kenya, Malawi, New Zealand, Papua-New Guinea, Rhodesia,Scotland, South Africa,United States and Wales. There is a daily programme featured and this copy includes a stapled-in alternate programme and a pass card; AND this copy also contains numerous autographs. On a loose slip: David Bryant (World Champion) and Harry Reston 'Scottish Skip' (Scotland); Australia: autographs of Geoff Kelly (Captain) and Peter Rheuben (acquired later since he did not compete in '66); England: autographs of Robbie Stenhouse, Derek 'Mick' Cooper, David Bryant, Tom Brown and John L. Coles (England Bowling Association, replacing William H. Lewis, President, English Bowling Association); Ireland: Cecil Beck and Charlie Taylor; New Zealand: George Boulton, N.Z. Bowling Association President, Norman Lash, Gordon Jolly, Phil Skoglund; Papua-New Guinea: Eric Carburn, Allan Ramsbocham, Barry Welsh, Wally Jackson, Jack Spears; Rhodesia: W.J.R. 'Bill' Jackson; South Africa: Thomas Crossan Press. Numerous photographs. -
By the mid-1850s, Australia had been transformed from a penal settlement into one of the richest outposts of the British Empire. But one thraldom remained - the tyranny of distance from the rest of the world. The six months required for exchange of information with Britain - by ship - ill-served the requirements of the colonial administration and starved the colonists of news of events and people 'at home'. The first offer to build an electric telegraph link, made by an English would-be contractor, was rejected by the government as being unrealistic, which was hardly surprsiing since at the time, there was less than 50 kilometres of telegraph line in Australia. The world's longest submarine cable was only slightly longer. Yet less than twenty years later, the the end of a copper wire connection with Britain. via Asia and the Middle East was landed at Darwin: the overthrow of Australia's thraldom began. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
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