Reviewed by Gerard Henderson Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell By Louise Milligan, Melbourne University Press, 2017 ISBN: 9780522871340 Rrp $34.99 - With a memoir piece from John Clifton who attended St Francis Xavier private school - the Ballarat school George Pell ministered to in the 1970s. * * * * * According to Melbourne University [...]
Reviewed by Peter Hayes A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work By Bernadette Brennan, Publisher: Text 2017 ISBN: 9781925498035 RRP pb $32.99In a society as small and isolated as Australia’s it doesn’t take many people to form a received opinion, and once an idea gains a foothold it can be impossible to dislodge, especially when it’s [...]
Reviewed by Matt Canavan The Second Rush: Mining and the Transformation of Australia By David Lee, Publisher: Connor Court 2017 ISBN: 9781925501148 RRP $49.95 (hb) David Lee’s The Second Rush is a nutrient packed contribution to the veritable Mother Hubbard’s cupboard that is the historiography of the Australian mining industry. Perhaps with the exception of [...]
Reviewed by Anne Henderson. After By Nikki Gemmell, Publisher: Fourth Estate 2017 ISBN 978 1 4607 5305 7 (hb) ISBN 978 1 4607 0769 2 (pb) RRP – $29.99 hb As a writer, Nikki Gemmell is honest, imaginative, daring and emotionally charged. These qualities have taken her to international best seller status – especially with her [...]
Reviewed by Nathan Lentern Talk Director: Jonathan Biggins Designer: Mark Thompson Lighting Designer: Trent Suidgeest Composer & Sound Designer: Steve Francis Cast: Helen Christinson Paige Gardiner Peter Kowitz Valerie Bader Lucia Mastrantone Kenneth Moraleda Andrew Tighe Hannah Waterman John Waters Ben Wood Photo: James Green John Behan, (John Waters) a talkback radio star [...]
Reviewed by Anne Henderson Tippi: A Memoir By Tippi Hedren, Publisher: William Morrow 2016 ISBN-10: 0062469037 ISBN-13: 978-0062469038 RRP 16.99 (pb) At 86, Alfred Hitchcock’s star from nowhere, Tippi Hedren, has written her memoirs. Hedren was the beautiful model, plucked from the Ford Modelling Agency after Hitchcock saw her in a TV diet drink commercial, who [...]
Reviewed by Michael Sexton Paul Keating: The Big-Picture Leader By Troy Bramston, Publisher: Scribe 2016 ISBN (13):9781925321746 RRP $49.99 (hb) In 1986 I was one of the 99 delegates to the ALP National Conference in Hobart as a member of the NSW group. On the last night of the conference a number of the NSW delegates [...]
Life, Death and Myth – Rupert Brooke By Nigel Jones, Reviewed by Anne Henderson. Publisher: Head of Zeus London 2014 ISBN13: 9781781857168 RRP – $54.99 hb He was a celebrity in an age before global stardom, the emblem of Britain’s lost youth at the end of the Edwardian age as world conflagration brought to a halt [...]
Evatt: A Life by John Murphy, Reviewed by Gerard Henderson. Publisher: NewSouth 2016 ISBN: 9781742234465 ISBN (ebook): 9781742247779 RRP – $49.95 LABOR’S “DOC” EVATT – AUSTRALIA’S MOST ERRATIC POLITICAL LEADER When I commenced my studies in Arts and Law at Melbourne University in the mid-1960s, Herbert Vere Evatt was a hero of the left. There was [...]
Photo by Bob Seary Review by Nathan Lentern Consensual Directed by Johann Walraven, Previews Tue 14 & Wed 15 Mar, 7:30pm Thu – Sat 7:30pm, Sun 5pm Final performance, Sat 15 Apr 5pm Set and Costume Designer Renee Halse Lighting Designer Liam O’Keefe Sound Designer Johann Walraven Original music by Nicky D’Silva Production Manager Sahn Millington Stage Manager Veda Best ASM Tom [...]
