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| Topic Started: 15 Oct 2004, 07:52 AM (149 Views) | |
| Anya4oz | 15 Oct 2004, 07:52 AM Post #1 |
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As people who read some of my threads on BE may know, I am something of a bookworm. I read anything & everything, & carry a book with me wherever I go. Over the last year I've been discovering all sorts of new Aussie writers, but I woondered if any of you folks can recommend any Melbourne or Victorian ones. I really enjoy Barry Humphries' work - his biog 'My Life as Me' was great. I'm trying to get hold of the earlier volume 'More Please', too. Also brought Germaine Greer's 'Whitefella Jump Up' with me, but not read it yet. Cheers, Anya. |
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| mezza586 | 15 Oct 2004, 09:21 AM Post #2 |
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Shane Maloney. Stiff, The Brush Off, Something Fishy. Can't remember the other ones. I share lots of books with friends. He is a local and his wife taught my kids in secondary school. Two of his books are now films for TV. I missed them but have one on video. Just need time to watch it. http://www.shanemaloney.com/ Meryl |
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| OzTennis | 15 Oct 2004, 06:55 PM Post #3 |
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A As you know from the book threads I'm a real bookworm too. Melbourne authors? Peter Carey comes from Bacchus Marsh so he is high up on the list of recommended authors; Professor Geoffrey Blainey I've mentioned before; Barry Humphries you've mentioned - went to Uni of Melb, stayed in a hall of residence, wrote funny stores and did cartoons on the wall of his room (incl early Barry McKenzie), last time I heard they were still there. I've got a huge pile of books to read at the moment and there are plenty of Aussie authors in there - 3 Thomas Keneally's, 1 Bryce Courtenay, 2 Tim Winton's, 2 Peter Carey's and a Geoffrey Blainey (to re-read) to keep me going! OzTennis :flag: |
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| leh | 15 Oct 2004, 11:51 PM Post #4 |
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I read a book by Alex Miller, last year, called Journey to a stone country. The story starts off in Carlton, Melbourne around the Uni. and finishes in QLD. Is he from Melbourne? I think he might be. I thought it was a well written book. |
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| OzTennis | 15 Oct 2004, 11:56 PM Post #5 |
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http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/bwriting/stories/s1059144.htm OzTennis :flag: |
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| Anya4oz | 16 Oct 2004, 07:18 AM Post #6 |
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Wow - hope they have slapped a preservation order on those Barry Mckenzie drawings! I've been a fan since the old days of them appearing in Private Eye in the 1970s. Been trying to get the movie on vid/DVD (as MarkMyWords has never seen it), with no luck so far :( I really enjoyed reading Anna Funder's 'Stasiland' a few months ago. She's a Melbourne gal who got Vic Arts funding to travel to Berlin (my ancestral city!) & research the re-unification after the fall of The Wall. Fascinating stuff, as it is told more from an Aussie perspective than a European one, so a whole new slant on things. Anya. |
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