The Big Picture and The King Film Novels Compared
A British review contrasts Derek Monsey and Morton Cooper novels on film as entertainment and art. It highlights Leonardo Veldi and Star conflicts, and criticizes Cooper’s Kennedy era plot as sensational. The piece notes differing American and English views on art versus entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derek Mousey
W. H. Allen
Morton Cooper
Derek Monsey
Leonardo Veldi
Kirk Bognor
Terry O’casey
Mr Mansey
Veldi
Michael Sage
Julia Stee
James Herenson
Monsey
Harry Orlando
Bronx
Bel Air
Mr Cooper
Kennedy
Cooper
New Australian books featured in Angus & Robertson week
A roundup of recent Australian titles with prices and publishers. Sue Rhodes discusses Now Youll Think Im Awful while gem collecting texts, local history guides, wildlife anthologies, poetry, and cookery books are listed with author names, publishers, and sale prices. Booksellers are in Green Square Kingston, East Row Civic and Pirie Street Fyshwick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sue Rhodes
Gareth Powell
Ausalia
Australia
Bill James
Murray
Royal Australian Historical Society
McMichael
Je Smith
Australian Museum
Sydney
Geoffrey Dutton
Cheshires
Meanjin
Angus and Robertson
Patrick White
A D. Hope
Vance Fulmer
Katherine Susannah Pritchard
Judith White
Rosemary Dobson
Douglas Stewart
Mimi Sheraton
Seducers
Mini Sheraton
Mayflower &c
Green Square
Kingston
East Row
Civic
Pirie St
Fyshwick
Testament to a master architect Testament to a master architect
Eric Mendelsohn, a Jewish German architect who migrated to England Palestine and the United States, is celebrated in a new letters collection edited by Oskar Beyer Abelard Schuman. The book, 186 pages, price 45 shillings, centers on intimate letters to his wife Louise from 1910 to his death in 1953 illustrating his life and work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Mendelsohn
Eric Mendelsohn
Oskar Beyer
Abelard Schuman
Price
England
Palestine
United States
Mendelsohn
M. F. Reggero
Arnold Wittick
Louise
Luise
J. J. P. Oud
Rotterdam
Lewis Mumford
Walter Gropius
Frank Lloyd Wright
Saarinen
Mies van der Rohe
Berlage
Neutra
Serge Chermayeff
Albert Einstein
Mendelssohn
Geoffrey Strachan
Nikolaus Pevsner
Pevaner
Pevsner
Sydney
Police Car Theme in Jeffries Youth Crime Tale
Roderic Jeffries offers YOUNG READERS a brisk crime tale focusing on bank robberies and police car chases. The story centers on constable Harry Cole who, after passing exams, chases a suspect car but risks danger passing a bus on a narrow road, failing grade but delivering a fast, instructive driving sequence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roderic Jeffries
Harry Cole
Houseman
Cole
Cook's great voyages CAPTAIN COOK THE SEAMAN'S SEAMAN
Alan Villiers profiles James Cook highlighting his seamanship, leadership, and three Pacific voyages that opened Australia and New Zealand. He uses Cook's journals and naval records to show technical skill, voyage challenges, and the enduring impact of Cook's explorations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Captain Cook
Alan Villiers
Adrian Small
Hodder and Stoughton
Banks
South Seas
Joseph Banks
Cook
James Cook
England
St Lawrence
Wolfe
Quebec
Venus
Tahiti
Terra Australis
Hawaii
Pacific
Australia
New Zealand
Villiers
Barrier Reef
The Coming of the Space Age by Arthur C Clarke
A compact survey of space fact and fiction from Sputnik to lunar and interplanetary speculation. Clarke edits about 36 pieces spanning Percival Lowell to 1965, with Von Braun and Dornberger essays on rocketry, life beyond Earth, and debates on space religion and policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur C. Clarke
Victor Gollanes
Price
Space
Mars
Percival Lowell
Outer Space
UN General Assembly
Moon
Earth
Jupiter
Walter R. Dornherer
Wernher von Braun
Germany
Peenemunde
von Braun
London
Leslie C. Peltier
Lews
Caves of Venus
God
Lewis
Also Mentioned on This Page
Angus & Robertson
Bernice Vercoe
Dorothy Evans
Angus & Robertson Ltd
Leonard Ward
Brockhampton Press
Potsdam
Cook’s
By Rafe de Crespigny
London Evening Post
Downs
Cooke
East Indies
17Yg Bookbinding Works Pty Ltd
Isa Street
A.C
Olaf Stapledon
Astronautics
Stapledon
Canberra
National Capital
Canberra City
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!