Robin Maughams memoir seeks truth about a troubled life
Robin Maugham in his memoir Escape from the Shadows aims to reveal his inner truth. The nephew of W Somerset Maugham and son of a Lord Chancellor recalls a fraught youth, domineering father, and a concealed homosexuality that haunts him.
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Robin Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
England
Fitlle
King's Bench
Maugham
Willie
Robin
Fan
Lord Maugham
Rabin
Somerset
Gerald Haxton
Agadir
Churchill
Glubb Pasha
Gilbert Harding
Lund
the Maugham
Peter de Vries Delights With Verbal Wit And Satirical Edge
A review lauds Peter de Vries for consistent humor and linguistic play. It surveys his novel’s puns, clichés, and ironic juxtapositions, noting a picaresque, loosely structured plot centered on Al and Rose, with deeper moral and cultural questions explored through light, comic narration.
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Rose
Peter de Vries
Brunoto Worra Jilbruka Legend and Birds of Australia prices
An item list notes Brunoto Worra Jilbruka Legend priced at $2.50 and Birds and Animals of Australia in full colour illustrations priced at $3.95.
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Brunoto
Birds and Animals of
Australia
Thea Astley profile and Miles Franklin win notes
Thea Astley, born 1925 to journalist Cec Awicy, rose from teaching in Queensland to Macquarie University. She has won the Miles Franklin Award three times for six novels, writing about 13 minutes nightly, with nine months per book, and a career marked by privacy and self deprecation.
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Astley
Cec Awicy
University of Queensland
Queensland
Hermes
Macquarie University
Thes Astley
Orginistry
Australian Music Examination Board
Jack Gregson
Gini
Townsville
Award Winner Is a Cynical Novelist
A critics overview evaluates Thea Astley's work as a fast moving yet detached narrative voice. It notes telescoped scenes, vivid landscape focus, and later novels showing sharper technique but persistent cynicism and lack of unifying theme.
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Astley
Martha Gellhorn
George Brewster
Thea Astley
W. 5. Rumson
Nelson
Jack Russell
the Hamiltons
Penguin
Emma
Sir William Hamilton
Lord Nelson
Russell
Exuberant Dame Sybil Thorndike and her theatre clan
The piece notes Dame Sybil Thorndike as the daughter of a minor canon and discusses the dramatic, emotionally intense world she and her Casson family navigated. It portrays a glamorous, exhausting theatrical milieu shaped by a mother with voracious enthusiasm and a family adept at handling high stimulation.
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Sybil Thorndike
Sybil
Cassons
Echo in the Wilderness and other 1970s youth books review
A mixed English book page reviews Brinsmead’s Echo in the Wilderness featuring Clippie Nunearfow and Bev Rose in a Tasanian adventure to protect wildlife with an inheritance plot. It also praises Peggy Woodford’s Please Don't Go, Barbara Euphan Todd’s The Wand From France, and Tibet tale Snow Lion, plus Armenian Folk Tales and Rodent novels. The piece surveys John Casson's Lewis and Sybil memoir as well as Nelson biographies, noting strong, vivid character portraits and stage lore.
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HF. Brinsmead
Ryl Merewether
New South Wales
Clippie Nunear Fow
Tastiania
Bev Rose
Tata
Fasmani
Lake Pedder
France
Joel
Pegey Woodford
Enid Blyton
Barbara Euphan Todd
Four Speed
Elizabeth
Miss Simons
Cinerella
Tony
Perdita Speed
Brothers Grimm
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Canberra Times
Hodder & Stauphton
Chicago
de Vries
Longfellow
Fone
Sorlo
Stanley
Picardy
Linrdat
Melbourne
Southall
East Row
Canberra City
Maurice Dunlevy
Miles Wranklin
Southerly
Delius
Eric Fenby
Patrick White
Sydney
Nikki
Macmillan
H. EF. Brinsmead
Oxford University Press
Peggy Woodford
Boley Head
J. M. Marks
Oxford_ University Press
Charles Downing
Oxford Ty Press
Mouse
Russell Hoban
Faber
Paul Gallico
Pan
Jean Rangecroft
the Bodley Head
Tibet
Kesang
Ming
Dalai Lama
Victor Ambrus
Gallico
Lewis and Sybil
John Casson
Collins
London
Margaret Masterman
John
Dymchurch Sands
Lewis
Soviet Russia
Earth Evans
Haywarket Theatre
Saint Joan
Bernard Shaw
Sybil Thorne
Saint Tom
Cassong
Sir Lewis
Judith Anderson
Royal Box
Sebil
Les
John Cassoo
Dame Sybil
Newcastle
Patricia Casson
Patricia
Fing
Strange
ZYG
Isa Street
Fyshwick
A.C.T
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