Christmas Gift Books From Maurice Dunlevy List
Maurice Dunlevy suggests a selection of Christmas books ideal for gifts and coffee tables. The list features art and history volumes from Australian colonial art to biographies, architecture, and world history, with notable titles by Bulgakov, Murdoch, Massie, and Solzhenitsyn, priced to appeal to varied readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russel Ward
Peter O'Shavanessy
Marian Henderson
Alex Hood
Mikhail Bulgakov
Lawrence Durrell
Iris Murdoch
Australia
Anthony Trollope
Captain Cook
Ed Kelly
J. M. Free
Paraguay
Gavin Souter
John McLaren
Herbert Marcuse
Herman Kahn
Anthony J. Weiner
United Nations
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Jean Lacoutre
Reasia
Brice McFarlane
Hal Porter
Japan
Prejudices on South East Asia and Malayan Warfare
Book reviews discuss Geoffrey Fairbairn’s Civil War era insurgencies analysis and its insights into Southeast Asian nations like Burma and Vietnam, noting author biases, the role of Western critics, and the Malayan Emergency case. It also covers Sir Macfarlane Burnet’s Boyer Biology lectures, comparing Pasteurian and Darwinian biology and addressing ethics and education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burma
Vietnam
South
Indonesia
Ipler
Ship
Templer
Ead
Tisswell
Malaya
Saigon
South Vietnam
Laos
T. E. Lawrence
Geoffrey Fairbairn
Boyer
Sir Macfarlane Burnet
Sun Books
Tphis
ABC
Sir Macfarne
Conscription in Australia: varied views and critique
Book review by Roy For award and Bob Reece analyzes Conscription in Australia from the Hawthorn Press series. It surveys essays opposing conscription, notes a few supporting positions, and questions the realism of antiwar claims while critiquing the Communist role narrative and the broader national service debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Roy Foraward
Bob Reece
University Reenslaiter Presse
Ps Sbapp
The
Hawthorn Press
T. B. Miller
D. H. Monro
Bookshop Meeting in a Windy Street
A narrator enters a bookshop on a hot windy day and chats with a tall young clerk about trout fishing. She recommends A Fly on the Stream and Round the Bend in the Stream by Sir Hudson Fysh, describing their appeal and imagery. He buys both, admires her, and plans to return when cooler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Turnbull
Fysh
Sir Hudson Fysh
Canberra Times plans EXT week on books for children's Christmas gifts
For children EXT week the Canberra Times will publish a special section dealing with books suitable for children's Christmas presents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canberra Times
Beaton’s The Best of Beaton Gift Book Review
Cecil Beaton’s pictorial who’s who spans Roaring Twenties to today. The volume charts his boyhood Kodak essays, early Nathe contract, and growth with Conde Nast. It covers theatre, bombed London, Middle East photography for the Ministry of Information, fashion, and society, with stylish prose throughout. The gift book costs 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Beaton
Harrow
Cambridge
Weidenfeld
Nicolson
Beaton
Mr Beaton
Conde Nast
Nast
London
Middle East
Ministry of Information
Pepe Ponte
Australian Birds And Other Works For Christmas
A mixed catalog style piece listing books on Australian birds by William T Cooper and Keith Hind Wend, political histories, presidential profiles, and illustrated sketches. Mentions titles including a bird handbook, party system veto history, a Henry Holt autobiography, and Johnson presidency views, with a Norfolk Island sketchbook and Christmas gift appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William T. Cooper
Keith Hindwend
Cooper
Austalia
Peel
Colin A. Hughes
B.D Grane
Cammu Whae
Harry
Ars “Holt
Harald Holt
Johnson
Stewart
West
Hugh Sidey
Lyndon ‘Johnson
John B
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Maurice Dunlevy
Santa
Michael Baldwin
Christina Stead
Gwyn Griffin
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Angus Wilson
Nat ‘Turner
William Styron
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Muriel Spark
Mordecai Richler
Jorge Luis Borges
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Elizabeth Taylor
Young Stalin
Edward Ellis Smith
Harold Nicholson
Andrew Malraux
Nicholas and
Alexandra
Robert K. Massie
Thomas Wolfe
Andrew Turnbull
Lytton Strachey
Michael Holroyd
Gordon Rattray
Taylor
Anthony Smith
Wernher von Braun
Frederick Ordway
Aldous Huxley
Boaton
S. E. Asia
South-East ‘Asia
Geoffrey Fairbaire
Faber and_ Faber
By J. L. S. Girling
Tsay
Washington
Indochina
Hanoi
Cambodia
Thailand
Millar
K. S. Inglis
Tony Morphett
Moscow
Fred Walls
Findlay
CPA
Communist Party
Tindlay
University of Melbourne
B Mivirden
Wnreservent
Reet Aid
MD Taine
Alesander McCahill
Lansell “Crescent
Camberwell
Alexander Aha
A. L. Cahill
A TJ
Bell Registear
Gery
England
Southern Cross
Northern Star
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