Faction versus fiction in The Games novel claim
Review of Hugh Atkinson and Phillip Knightley's The Games argues the book markets itself as a new form faction based on fact. It claims the work blends politics, sex, race and mysticism into pseudo dramatic style, but the critic finds credibility swamped by sensationalism and clichés.
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Hugh Atkinson
Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders
Ruth
Morris West
Atkinson
Phillip Knightley
A Downy Bird Off the Rails by G W Stonier
A Downy Bird Off the Rails records a London life journalist G W Stonier and his wife traveling by Land rover caravan from London to Cape Town. The journey, told with humanity and humor, notes illness, dialects of manana, and eschews blunt social critique, praised as engaging and pointilliste.
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London
G. W. Stonier
Cape Town
Manana
Stonier
The Movement in Civil Rights and Vietnam Debates
A review of The New Radicals by Jacobs and Landau tracing 1960s student protest roots through Berkeley sit ins and campus reform. The work argues the Movement united civil rights activity university reform anti poverty drives and antiwar debate in a sprawling social critique.
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USA
Berkeley
Fotest
Footworth
Chessman
Jacobs
Landau
New Left
SNCC
SDS
FSM
Multiuniversity
Vietnam
Paul Goodman
Gipsy Moth Circumnavigator Francis Chichester Biography
Francis Chichester’s book chronicles his solo circumnavigation dream from the 1920s, the 1966 voyage and the Gipsy Moth IV’s flaws, with credit to Ric Tabarly and Lord Dulverton. It surveys media saturation, the youth radical movement, and campus protests shaping public discourse and policy.
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Ric Tabarly
Pen Duick II
Sydney
Hobart
Francis Chichester
Chichester
Pen Duick I
Eric Tabarly
Tabarly
Tony Dulverton
Cape Horn
Sir Francis Drake
Lord Dulverton
Joseph Conrad
Sir Francis Chichester
World of Books and Australia Art Quarterly Review
ABrit style catalog blurb praising World of Books arene and Art Quarterly Ure Smith plus Australia Today National Annual of The Australian Traveller. Notes wide art trends excellent illustrations and photography, with contributors such as Alan Marshall Clive Turnbull and Geoffrey Hutton, suitable for overseas mailing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ART and
Australia
Ure Smith
Australia Today
C.T.A
Alan Marshall
Clive Turnbull
Geoffrey Hutton
Transcendental arrangement IKEBANA art book review
A book by Georgie Davidson Allen explores Ikebana origin in religious practice. It traces Buddhist monks gathering storm scattered flowers to place in water in ritual altars as expression of reverence. The discussion centers on Ikebana as a spiritual art form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgie Davidson
Allen
Ike
Mrs Davidson
New Paperbacks and Philosophies Cross Paths in Run of Books
A list of recent titles including NEW PAPERBACKS MENTOR CROSS ROADS TO ISRAEL by Christopher Sykes a history from 1917 to 1948 noting Chaim Weizmanns role and the statehood goal. Barbara W Tuchmans THE ZIMMERMANN TELEGRAM spy story first published 1989 and the London suburb sociological study by Peter Willmott and Michael Young. Also a guide to Thehana the arrangement of living material in water with Sogetsu techniques and practical color illustrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Israel
Christopher Sykes
Palestine
Chaim Weizmann
London
Peter Willmott
Michael Young
Davidson
Britain
Sogetsu School
Midnite Mischief and Tasmanian Legends in 3 Novels
A review of Randolph Stow's Midnite detailing a seventeen year old bushranger and his cat Kat set in 19th century Western Australia, with Ralph Steadman illustrations. Nan Chauncy's Mathinna's People lauded for humane portrayal of the Toogee tribe. and Andrew Salkey's Riot praised for stark realism of a Jamaica trade union conflict. The piece highlights tone, character dynamics, and illustrations across the trio of works with emphasis on thematic contrasts between satire, colonization, and social struggle.
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Western Australia
Captain Midnite
Kat
Midnite
Trooper O'Grady
Mathinna
Nan Chauncy
Tasmania
Andrew Salkey
Jamaica
Gerald Manson
Shifty
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