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A Handful of Mischief - New Essays on Evelyn Waugh by Donat Gallagher; Ann Pasternak Slater; John Howard Wilson; Baron Alder (Contribution by); Peter G. Christensen (Contribution by); Robert Murray Davis (Contribution by); D. Marcel DeCoste (Contribution by); Patrick Denman Flanery (Contribution by); Irina Kabanova (Contribution by); Dan S. Kostopulos (Contribution by); Lewis MacLeod (Contribution by); John W. Mahon (Contribution by); Richard W. Oram (Contribution by)
Category: Biography | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford, in 2003. There are twelve different essays by authors from various countries, including Australia, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom, ...Show more
A Star on Her Door: The life and career of June Bronhill by Richard Davis, foreword by Marina Prior
Category: Biography
For four decades June Bronhill was a household name in Britain and Australia. Whilst her name, her face and her voice became synonymous with the title role in Lehar’s The Merry Widow and Maria in The Sound of Music, Bronhill’s career covered grand opera, comic opera, musicals, straight plays, variety, r ...Show more
Becoming an Orchestral Musician - A Guide for Aspiring Professionals by Richard Davis
Category: Performing Arts
Becoming an Orchestral Musician takes you on a journey into the musical profession. It is the first comprehensive guide for professional musicians on how to succeed in joining an orchestra or ensemble, and how to survive as an orchestral musician. Such crucial topics as how to obtain the right tuition, ...Show more
Close to the Flame: The Life of Stuart Challender by Richard Davis
Category: Biography
Stuart Challender was the most talented Australian conductor of his generation, acclaimed in his homeland and beginning to build an international career in Europe and America when he died at the age of forty-four. After twelve years of study and work in European opera houses, he returned home to join Op ...Show more
Dark Origins - Arkham Horror: the Collected Novellas, Vol. 1 by Dave Gross; Graeme Davis; Richard Lee Byers; Chris A. Jackson
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Arkham Horror Ser.
The Ancient Ones are coming to consume our world, and only the bold investigators of Arkham Horror stand in their way, in this chilling collection of eldritch novellas. Hour of the Huntress by Dave Gross - the mysterious disappearance of dilettante Jenny Barnes' beloved sister triggers a frantic search ...Show more
Gods in Print by Richard Davis
Category: Art
"Gods in Print" is the first comprehensive collection of early hand-colored lithographs, multiple-block chromolithographs, and offset print images of India's world of gods and goddesses. India's love of gods in print began in the 1870s with the founding of the Calcutta Art Studio and the Chitrashala Pre ...Show more
Great Australian Ghost Stories by Richard Davis
Category: Australian History | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
From gore-spattered convicts and elegant women out of our colonial past to the mysterious ghost lights of the outback and angry poltergeists that wreak havoc on modern homes, Australia seems to be teeming with the restless spirits of our ancestors. You'll meet a wide cross section of them in this far-re ...Show more
Great Australian Ghost Stories by Richard Davis
Category: Australian History
Australia has a rich history of ghost sightings and spooky tales, from the time of European settlement until today - and they are all here in GREAT AUSTRALIAN GHOST STORIES. From gore-spattered convicts and elegant women out of our colonial past to the mysterious ghost lights of the outback and angry po ...Show more
Nellie Melba: The legend lives by Richard Davis
Category: Biography
Dame Nellie Melba is, arguably, the most famous of all Australian women and her portrait graces Australia's highest denomination banknote. Blessed with an exceptionally fine voice, Melba forged a spectacular career for herself in the rarified world of grand opera and was acknowledged as a 'Queen of Song ...Show more
On the Trail of Jack the Ripper by Richard Charles Cobb; Mark Davis (Photographer)
Category: True Crime
For 132 years the ghastly and horrific murders committed in London's East End by the infamous 'Jack the Ripper' have gripped and baffled the world. The Ripper commenced his series of atrocities at the end of August and continued freely until the beginning of November 1888 when inexplicably the murders s ...Show more