A Biography Of Martin Sharp As Told to Lowell Tarling
Martin Sharp was an integral part of international Pop Art in the 1960s, magnified through his covers for OZ magazine, his covers for Cream, and posters of Dylan, Hendrix and Donovan. His efforts at making The Yellow House and Luna Park cultural precincts were aided by his screen prints and exhibitions to flaunt the work of others.
The First National Black Playwrights Conference and Workshop held in Canberra in January 1987 was a hectic affair. More than one participant called on Mudrooroo to use the proceedings (in the sense of what was happening) and the stories going around in a book. Doin Wildcat was that book.
"How Lawrence Found His Lost Girl in Cornwall," is the title of the Introduction to this edition of Lawrence's sixth major novel. In it Sandra Jobson shows how Lawrence based part of his character Alvina Houghton on Katherine Mansfield, the New Zealand short-story writer.
'A uniquely companionable - and, yes, neglected - round-midnight voice, smoky but sharp-edged, knowing but knowledgeable, world-weary but worldly-wise as it muses on love, war, politics, music and ideas. Direct in its imagery, dryly aphoristic in its humour, and possessing a terrific gift for metaphor.' - Peter Goldsworthy
The entertaining story of Geoff Dobbin's life on the high seas - and on land - from his early childhood in Dubbo in outback Australia, through to his adventures in the Pacific Islands, and on to high-life aboard P&O liners. Geoff has a lively sense of humour and describes the ups-and-downs of naval life with considerable panache.
Bar, Bench and Land Law is both entertaining and informative. Former Appeals Court judge John P. Bryson tells the history of the development of Sydneys Phillip Street barristers chambers and recounts amusing anecdotes about the judges he has worked with.
This is a remarkable book as it is a translation of an account written by the author Ernst Raubitschek soon after World War Two. As the title suggests it tells of his journey to Dachau concentration camp, his stay there and subsequent journey to Buchenwald concentration camp after Kristallnacht and before the outbreak of war. It has been ......
Darlinghurst Nights and Morning Glories: Being 47 strange sights observed from eleventh storeys, in a land of cream puffs and crime, by a flat-roof professor; and here set forth in sketch and rhyme, first published in 1933.
The vision and achievements of Henry Parkes, one of the nation's greatest founding fathers, provide the catalyst for this collection of ideas for Australian society - from education policy to rail infrastructure, from models of government to options for a republic, and from social justice through Constitutional reform to evolving multiculturalism ......
