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...]
Book about the magazine – The Australian Women’s Weekly
PUBLISHED IN APRIL 2014, A HISTORY OF AN ICONIC (YES) AUSTRALIAN MAGAZINE, HAS HIT THE BOOKSHELVES. Previous Australian Women's Weekly editor Deborah Thomas and Vogue editor Kirstie Clements … [Read more...]
Proud as a peacock of the quality – Package tour – a guide to SA ephemera
MANY WILL HAVE ENJOYED CONSULTING ESA MEMBER VIVIENNE O'NEILL'S Yesterday’s Paper – Collecting Ephemera in Australia. Vivienne O'Neill and David Tuckwell have just (Easter 2014) published Package … [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...]
Books about collecting
This post is a list of publications about collectors and the art and psychology of collecting. It is divided into two categories: - Australia; - The rest of the world. If you can suggest … [Read more...]
Book collector & thief
Bernie Rhodenbarr is a fictional thief who uses the proceeds from his crimes to buy a secondhand bookshop. Bernie, is also a crime fiction fan, and refers to Agatha Christie, E.W. Hornung (Bernie's … [Read more...]