Its over 60 years since the Beatles historic visit to Australasia, yet the tour remains deeply significant even now, not only in the memories of baby boomers, but also to today’s millennials who wish they had been there. This highly illustrated book is the definitive account of this extraordinary tour by the world’s most influential musical force.
The career chronicle of a Senior Crown Prosecutor who helped convict murderers, rapists and child sex offenders, then turned 180 degrees and became a defence barrister. In her wake, a failed attempt by ICAC to undo her career, and a conga line of professional admirers.
Behind Dark Eyes tells the complete, authorised story of Jon English, the pop star and actor with 70s/80s hits such as Hollywood Seven, Six Ribbons and Hot Town, and the star of shows such as Pirates of Penzance and Jesus Christ Superstar. The book tells of these massive highs, but also of his later struggles and his tragic, untimely death in 2016.
He had it all: the scars, the swagger, the stage presence. As the highly visible and charismatic singer of Dragon, Marc Hunter was the voice behind such timeless hits as ‘April Sun in Cuba. Yet Hunter was also a maverick whose destructive genius and serious heroin addiction led to a turbulent relationship with his bandmates and an early death.
Epstein and The Fall of America's Most Infamous Socialite
On 2 July, multi-millionaire Ghislaine Maxwell - Jeffrey Epstein’s former lover and a close friend of Prince Andrew’s and ex-President Donald Trump’s - was arrested in new Hampshire on charges relating to the serial abuse of underage girls.
These simple sketches of Territory life centre around the young Aboriginal girl Bett-Bett (Dolly Bonson) and her dog Sue; as she appears from the Never- Never, stays awhile, learns a little, laughs a lot, wonders much, and finally returns to the bush again. This early tale of life in the Northern Territory was first published in 1905, and was ......
Marianne Faithfull singer, dope addict and lover of Mick Jagger and other rich and famous people tells us her story, in a frank, revealing autobiography.
ISBN-13: 9780815410461
(Paperback)
Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT Imprint: COOPER SQUARE PRESS
Memoirs of sniping at Gallipoli and on the Western Desert, plus tips for Australian militia in 1942 when a Japanese invasion seemed imminent. Book 2 of The Australian Guerrilla Series, produced by Idriess during World War Two for the Australian militia.
This adventure of shipwreck in the Torres Strait, and brawl for the white survivor, Barbara Thompson by the European convict who rose to power in the 1840s as a tribal chief, is based on fact - from the ships log of the HMS Rattlesnake, captained by Owen Stanley.
