Max Walker’s humorous rise in cricket and football tales
Tasmanian Max Walker rose to fame in Victoria and Australia as a cricketer after a rough start in football. The book captures his stubborn perseverance through rough matches, famous dismissals, and likable misfit antics.
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Max Walker
Max
Tasmania
VFL
Melbourne
Victoria
Australia
Sydney
Pakistan
Lord's
West Indies
Multiracial New Zealand and the Olympic Boycott Debate
A critique of New Zealand's multicultural image in light of Olympic boycotts by Uganda and Iraq over alleged racism. The review notes NZ’s touring rugby mix, questions of bias, and profiles professor Johnston's outsider view. It discusses NZ society, living standards, and a book series on peoples as emigration guides.
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Uganda
Iraq
New Zealand
South Africa
Johnston
Argentina
West Indies
Kampala
Baghdad
Desert Hero Lost To The Desert Exposé
A fragment from 1911 recounts an Arabian desert execution scene witnessed by two foreigners as a British political agent photographs the moment. The piece praises Captain William Shakespear as an extraordinary, resourceful envoy and explorer whose career exemplified imperial reach and personal drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Shakespear
Lawrence of Arabia
Shakespear
Pursuit of Happiness and a Captain Shakespear portrait review
A British critic surveys Mervyn Jones’s In and Out of the Trap, highlighting Pat Bel’s pursuit of happiness, marriage's trap, and self fulfillment. The piece then shifts to H V F Winstone’s Captain (Akespear) portrait of Shakespeare in Arabia, noting documentary limits and a Bernard of Victorian persona.
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Mervyn Jones
Quartet Books
London
Rama Gavid
Lhe
Pat Bel
Sat
Essnelly
Vernon Longuedaye
Pat
Vernon
Britain
Winstone
Arabia
Husain
Sharif
Mecca
Persian Gulf
England
Nabokov Short Stories in a Sunset of Meaning
Nabokov’s Derans of a Sunset gathers 13 Russian tales from the 1920s and 30s with sharp, compressed prose similar to Saki. The reviewer notes vivid, credible scenes and characters who feel present beyond the text, though some translations wobble with minor lexical slips.
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Nabokov
oFen
Russia
Canberra Times
Quiz books reviewed praise The Greatest Quiz Book Ever
The piece discusses Roy Ward Dickson and the book The Greatest Quiz Book Ever, alongside Screen Test, noting their quizzes span diverse topics and ages Card mentions Dickson as a prolific broadcaster and provides context on the books published from 1972 to 1974 and their appeal for family entertainment and reading. It also reveals the answers to the sample questions, naming General Pershing and actors Alec Guinness and friends with Katie Johnson as the lady linked to the film inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Ward Dickson
Professor Dick
Toronto
Schoo
Tne
John Joseph Pershing
Alec Guinness
Herbert Lom
Cecil Parker
Peter Sellars
Danny Greet
Katie Johnson
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Neil Phillipson
Garry Sparke and Associates
Rohan Rivett
Johnny Shepherd
Shepherd
Duck’ Ace
Ashley Mallett
Asif Masood
Ashley
Yorkshire
Walker
Fugiwara Yuchika
Norman Sparnow
Reed Educational
R. J. Johnston
Australia and
New Zealand Book Co
Frank Cranston
Nanette Newman
George
Akespear
H. V. F. Winstone
Jonathan Cape
Veronica Sen
Ibn Saud
Central Arabia
Turkey
Winston
Dorothea Baird
Choose Mom
Rockdale
Nsw
THE
Australian National University
Heer
Ead Trom
Ie Neon
Vladimir Nabokov
Weidenfeld
Nicolson Loudon
George Stern
Geronimo
Philippines
Pancho Villa
Roy Ward Dickson Hodder
Stoughton
Peter Brown
Martin. Hayden
Penguin
Sonny
Micaongele
Popebo
Iniearnal Weber Econay
Dpire Hardy
Bron Ec
Sina
Tom Vt
Newsagency
Nortome Ave
Peking Review
China Pictorial
China Reconstructs
China's
Barcalding Books Shop
Fyshwick Plaza
Wollongong St
Fyshwick
Act
Mary Martin Epic
Southern Cross
Carnegie
Spinifex and Sand
Boxall
Bush Rangers
Twopenny
Gould
Town
Bush
Dunderdale
Palmer
South Seas
Twain
Mark Twain
Meredith
New South Wales
Becke
Mary Martin
Alinga Street
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