Author: Edmund PeggePublisher:
ISBN: 9781743054987
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A light-hearted look back at the life and work of one of Australia's most prolific supporting actors.
Author: Gordon Congdon KingCurious Recollections
Author: Rob MorrisonPublisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 1743056702
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Every child who grew up in Australia in the 70s and 80s remembers Curiosity Show, the science show that encouraged kids to build their own experiments at home. Running for 18 years, it was a groundbreaking television production, winning awards and screening into homes around the world. As the show experiences a renaissance online, co-host Rob Morrison delves into its weird and wonderful past. From a flight to Antarctica, to being an expert witness on dingos in the Lindy Chamberlain case, to using a sex doll to win a scientific debate, Rob's recollections from this era - and of his long partnership with Deane Hutton - are imbued with his famous sense of fun. He also takes us behind the cameras, sharing how he got into the television business and small tips and tricks to engage with viewers all around the world. For fans new and old alike, this is a wonderful peek into one of Australia's most beloved televisions shows. You'll never look at Humphrey B. Bear the same way again ...
Once There Was
Author: Kiyash MonsefPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1665928514
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
When fifteen-year-old Iranian American Marjan discovers her murdered father was secretly a veterinarian to magical creatures, she realizes she must take up his mantle, despite the many dangers.
Human Amusements
Author: Wayne JohnstonPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307486109
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Offering further evidence of his astounding range as a novelist, the bestselling author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and The Navigator of New York crafts a hilarious and moving paean to the dawn of the television age. Henry Prendergast grew up on television—not merely watching it, but starring in the wildly popular children’s show “Rumpus Room.” Cast in the roles of Bee Good and Bee Bad by his mother Audrey, the show’s creator, Henry came of age along with the new medium—one that would soon propel his family out Toronto’s middle-class life and into the tabloids. Henry’s father Peter, a would-be novelist, refuses to have any part in his wife’s burgeoning television empire, but commits himself instead to the task of being a walking, talking—mostly scathing—reminder of the family’s “humble beginnings.” Then, on the heels of Rumpus Room, Audrey dreams up The Philo Farnsworth Show, loosely based on the life story of the young teen credited with inventing the tube and starring Henry in the lead role. Rapidly amassing a cult-like following of “Philosophers,” the show challenges the Prendergasts anew. Forced into increasing isolation by a fervent media, they must work harder than ever to not let success get the best of them.
Tales from the End
Author: Christopher FraserPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0956151922
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
End of the line. Amidst a backdrop of apocalypse, the characters in Tales From The End struggle with the slow breakdown of the sanity of the world around them, along with their own delicate minds. It sweeps across the globe, plunging us into unfamiliar settings and placing us face to face with the only people left alive to tell the often-touching, sometimes-gruesome and always downright absurd story. Included: the moment when a whole town lost their eyes, a man whose body becomes a bomb scare, two blood-powered robots at the heart of a volcano, the disgruntled employee of a bubble factory, the dark underbelly of the consumer electronics industry, an expose of post-apocalyptic prostitution, long-dead Hollywood actors screaming their way across Mumbai, ominous, hovering sanctuary ships gliding above Africa, and the botched teleportation of a dead stork. Ladies and gentlemen: if they haven't slipped off to another dimension, fasten your seatbelts....
Author: Albert Bigelow PaineThe Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Drama: Concise Edition
Author: J. Douglas CanfieldPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1551115816
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1055
Book Description
The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, Concise Edition, with twenty-one plays, is half the length of the full anthology without compromising its breadth. Concentrating on plays from the heyday of 1660-1737, it focuses on Restoration drama proper and Revolution drama, with a selection from the early Georgian period and the later Georgian period’s “laughing comedy.” Seven of the nine sub-genres (personal tragedy, tragicomic romance, social comedy, subversive comedy, corrective satire, menippean satire, and laughing comedy) of the full anthology are represented, with the preponderance of exposure given to the jewel of this theatre, its comedy. Each play is fully annotated and prefaced with an historical introduction. Also included are a general introduction, a statement of procedures, and a glossary.
Author: Clare Beecher KummerA Man of Honor, or Horatio's Confessions
Author: J. A. NelsonPublisher: Quill Point Press
ISBN: 1733347518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Finalist, Literary Fiction – 14th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards (2020). Top 100, Notable Indie Books - Shelf Unbound (2020). Double Silver Medal Winner – Best First Book, Fiction & Best Cover, Fiction awarded by the Independent Book Publishers Association (2020). Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars by IndieReader Reviews. "Nelson has developed a timeless story.... A MAN OF HONOR's narrative builds speed and takes off into an often gripping adventure of love, war, and discovery." A Man of Honor tells the fictional tale of how one man’s oath gave birth to the legend of Hamlet. How far would you go to keep a deathbed promise? Surrounded by the bodies of slain monarchs, a dying prince extracts a promise from his friend, Horatio: "Tell my story." Rival kings of warring nations strive to lay claim to the throne, now vacant, but what will happen to the people who live there, at Helsingør's Krogen Castle? How will Horatio preserve his honor and the prince's legacy while surviving this murderous kingdom and the men who would rule it? Despite the odds and threats against him, Horatio persists, weaving the story of his dear friend into the fabric of one of their oldest and most revered medieval texts. But when a nefarious Spaniard thwarts his plans, Horatio must once again risk everything to fulfill his oath. With the help of some unexpected allies in the form of Margrete, a courageous lady-in-waiting, and Lanier, a disgraced French nobleman, Horatio undertakes this perilous quest that will lead him on a journey none of them could have ever predicted, to a place none of them ever thought they would see. And after their hard-fought journey will it all be for naught? Will Hamlet's glory be Horatio's downfall?
