Ned Kelly and the Odd Rellie is all you need to know about Australian history in 100 pages! In the best traditions of larrikin wit, these micro verses sum up the claims to fame of 50 of our national greats. From now on this is how you'll remember your favourite Australian identities, from Banjo Paterson and William Bligh to Collette Dinnigan and Russell Crowe - immortalised in Gerard Windsor's four-line portraits and Michel Streich's irreverent colour illustrations.
After searching high and low for the year's outstanding short fiction, Delia Falconer has selected masterful stories from some of the country's best-loved authors and exciting work from the up-and-coming. 'Stories don't have the novel's luxury of great swathes of time, its layerings, its wanderings, its counterpoints, ' she observes. 'Instead, th..
New editor is Robert Drewe, author of Grace, The Shark Net, Our Sunshineand Walking Ella. Past contributors include- J.M. Coetzee, Janette Turner Hospital, Tara June Winch, Luke Davies, Sonya Hartnett, Gregory David Roberts, Marion Halligan, Sophie Cunningham, Peter Temple, Amanda Lohrey, Carmel Bird, Joan London, Murray Bail and Tim Winton Always receives great national exposure with reviews in all major literary pages and good regional exposure given contributors "local" appeal.
This book is an autobiography on Bee Smith. The book is about the struggles Bee faced mostly because she developed amnesia for the majority of her life. She started to regain her memories about her unusual childhood fully since 2006. Bee lived what she refers to as a “psychological thriller” in discovering and solving the mystery that was haunting her all her life and getting out of amnesia. She lived a somewhat bizarre life as a result and this book is all about her travels, living and working abroad, her strange relationship with her boyfriends, the friendships she tried making along the way and eventually becoming a single-mum and having her beautiful daughter in her life now.
NEW More than 16,000 capsule movie reviews, with more than 300 new entries NEW More than 13,000 DVD and 13,000 video listings NEW Up-to-date list of mail-order and online sources for buying and renting DVDs and videos NEW Completely updated index of leading performers MORE Official motion picture code ratings from G to NC-17 MORE Old and new theatrical and video releases rated **** to BOMB MORE Exact running times—an invaluable guide for recording and for discovering which movies have been edited MORE Reviews of little-known sleepers, foreign films, rarities, and classics AND Leonard's personal list of fifty notable debut features Summer blockbusters and independent sleepers; masterworks of Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Martin Scorsese; the timeless comedy of the Marx Brothers and Buster Keaton; animated classics from Walt Disney and Pixar; the finest foreign films ever made. This 2013 edition covers the modern era, from 1965 to the present, while including all the great older films you can’t afford to miss—and those you can—from box-office smashes to cult classics to forgotten gems to forgettable bombs, listed alphabetically, and complete with all the essential information you could ask for. • Date of release, running time, director, stars, MPAA ratings, color or black and white • Concise summary, capsule review, and four-star-to-BOMB rating system • Precise information on films shot in widescreen format • Symbols for DVD s, videos, and laserdiscs • Completely updated index of leading actors • Up-to-date list of mail-order and online sources for buying and renting DVDs and videos
