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A History of Football in Australia: A Game of Two Halves by Roy Hay
Category: Sports and Hobbies
From nineteenth century impromptu football games to the professional matches of the Socceroos and Matildas on the international stage - Australia's fastest growing sport has a fascinating and turbulent history. International successes and the creation of the A-League in 2005 fuelled nation-wide enthusia ...Show more
A House Restored - The Tragedies and Triumphs of Saving a New England Colonial by Lee McColgan; Roy Underhill (Foreword by)
Category: Architecture
Shop Class as Soulcraft meets A Place of My Own in this lyrical meditation of a woodworker steadfastly repairing a historic home. Old houses share their secrets only if they survive. Trading the corporate ladder for a stepladder, Lee McColgan commits to preserving the ramshackle Loring House, built in 1 ...Show more
A Is for Allegro: An Alphabet of Curious Cars by Roy McCarthy
Category: Technology and Transport
A nostalgic A-Z of the most special and well-remembered 60s, 70s and 80s cars, with stylish illustrations accompanied by warm, humorous personal memories. Designer and illustrator Roy McCarthy explores the cars that made a big impression on him in his younger days, from the sludge-coloured, disappointin ...Show more
A Little History of the English Country Church by Roy Strong
Category: History
In this fascinating book Roy Strong tells the dramatic story of the English parish church, from the first temporary buildings erected in Anglo-Saxon times to its uncertain future in the twenty-first century. Starting with the Christianisation of Britain by missionaries from Ireland and Rome, he takes us ...Show more
A Little History of the English Country Church by Roy Strong
Category: Travel Literature
'A highly readable and intelligent narrative account ...Anyone with the slightest interest in the English parish church...will be intrigued, informed and enchanted by this lucid, and occasionally provocative account' - "Country Life". 'The writing is concise, uncluttered, clear. Even when you know the h ...Show more
A Spirit of Progress: Art Deco Architecture in Australia by Patrick van Daele & Roy Lumby
Category: Art and Design
This book examines Australia's Art Deco architecture of the 1920s and 1930s, which endures as a record of its time and a mirror of the hopes and aspirations of Australians in the years between the two world wars. It provides a valuable insight into this significant period in Australia's social, economic ...Show more
A Spy's London by Roy Berkeley
Category: History
In 'this remarkable book' (as intelligence historian Nigel West describes it in his Foreword), the reader will be struck by the vibrancy of history made real. Author Roy Berkeley has gone behind the facades of ordinary buildings, in the city that West calls 'the espionage capital of the World', to remin ...Show more