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AUSTRALIA'S QUARTER ACRE by Timms, Peter
Category: Home and Garden
Who invented the rotary clothesline, the lawn-mower and the fibreglass swimming pool? Why are our back gardens today so different from those of our grandparents? And whatever happened to the chrysanthemums and marigolds that once made front gardens so colourful? In this fascinating and detailed look at ...Show more
Asking for Trouble by Peter Timms
Category: Fiction
There are things in his past that Harry Bascombe definitely doesn't want to remember. But when a nosy journalist with a taste for scandal turns up out of the blue, he is forced to confront his memories...An uncertain and diffident boy, Harry struggles to survive a suburban upbringing in the 1950s - the ...Show more
Hobart by Peter Timms
Category: Travel | Series: City Ser.
In this updated edition, Peter Timms leads us on a journey through his adopted city of Hobart, Australia's smallest, most southerly, least prosperous, but arguably most beautiful state capital. He reveals a city in transition, shaking off its dark and troubled past to claim its special place in the post ...Show more
Hobart : Updated Edition by Peter Timms
Category: Travel | Series: City Ser.
A journey through Hobart--Australia's smallest, most southerly, least prosperous, but arguably most beautiful state capital--this updated edition reveals a city in transition, shaking off its dark and troubled past to claim its special place in the post-modern world. From Hobart's convict legacy, its sp ...Show more
In & Around Swindon Works by Timms Peter
Category: Sports and Hobbies | Series: Amberley Ser.
In and Around Swindon Works covers further aspects of the famous manufacturing centre of the Great Western Railway during its heyday of 1930 to 1960. This is the second half of a detailed work begun with the book Working at Swindon Works 1930 - 1960. In piecemeal form, much has been written about Swindo ...Show more
In Search of Hobart by Peter Timms
Category: Travel | Series: Cities Ser.
Peter Timms leads us on a journey through his adopted city of Hobart, Australia's smallest, most southerly, least prosperous, but arguably most beautiful state capital. He reveals a city in transition, shaking off its dark and troubled past to claim its special place in the contemporary world. From Hoba ...Show more
Private Lives - Australians at Home Since Federation by TIMMS Peter
Category: Australian History
Traces the revolutionary changes that have transformed domestic life over the past hundred years or so. Beginning at the front door, this work explores the suburban dwelling room by room. Witty, irreverent and inventive, it is a sympathetic, but not uncritical, look inside the suburban house that helps ...Show more
Silliness - A Serious History by Peter Timms
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Silliness is to be savoured. It exposes the cracks in our reasoning, raising a gleeful two-finger salute to convention and common sense. In a world awash with stupidity and cruel politics, silliness is childish, anarchic, mischievous, rude and sometimes shocking. But it's not new. This delightful yet i ...Show more
What's Wrong With Contemporary Art? by Peter Timms
Category: Art and Design
In this provocative book, Timms asks confronting questions. Why is contemporary art so in thrall to spruikers and promoters, and why do their extravagant claims so rarely match the reality? Why does the market have such power, and how does it dictate the sort of art we are allowed to see?
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