FANCY A BOOK ABOUT AUSTRALIAN TOYS OF THE 20TH CENTURY WITH WONDERFUL PHOTOGRAPHY? Wendi Bradshaw has reviewed Australian toys; a collection, by Luke Jones, with photographs by Mark Spaven (Melbourne, … [Read more...]
Book review: The Diary of a Bookseller
Shaun Bythel's The Diary of a Bookseller (London: Profile Books, 2018) Reviewer: ESA member Wendi B: As an initial disclaimer I have to admit that this isn’t the kind of book I would have been … [Read more...]
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ARE YOU SOMEONE WITH AN EAGLE EYE FOR DETAIL?DO YOU WANT YOUR COLLECTION TO BE ORGANISED BY, SOME PRINCIPLE?DO YOU NEED TO TAKE CERTAIN ROUTES TO AVOID AWFUL SIGNS? Three stars ***good not … [Read more...]
Record of live music scene
RECENTLY FOUND & ENJOYED AS IT WOULD BE BY OTHER MUSIC OR CONTEMPORARY EPHEMERA COLLECTORS, Hi God people : Melbourne music flyers from the late 70s to last week / compiled by Lisa … [Read more...]
Bidding against friends – record sale
HERE IS ANOTHER EXTRACT ABOUT COLLECTING FROM A NOVEL. The scene about a record sale in Northern Ireland, comes from a police procedural by Adrian McKinty. McKinty is a St Kilda, Melbourne based … [Read more...]
Extreme collectors (another TV show on collecting)
Thanks to member Robert for alerting us as follows: EXTREME COLLECTORS 2 episodes, tonight 8.30 on Ch ONE 1 . Good Collectors show their collections in detail in a friendly environment, and have it … [Read more...]
Fictional police detective finds some collectors
Dorothy Simpson is a Welsh born detective fiction writer; born in 1933, she wrote from 1975 to 2000. Perhaps not a great writer, but her books are engaging and consciously set in the events of the … [Read more...]
Gleaners? relatives, ancestors of collectors?
AGNES VARDA'S TWO FILMS ABOUT GLEANING - originally gathering the useful remnants of the crop after harvesting) are being screened in Melbourne on Sunday 13 July at 2.30 pm and 4.15 pm at the … [Read more...]
Booker prize winning character was a collector of buttons
NEW YORK BASED NOVELIST PETER CAREY (born in Bacchus Marsh, Australia) WROTE ABOUT COLLECTORS in his Booker prize in 1988 for the novel, Oscar and Lucinda (UQP, 1988). The two main … [Read more...]