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...]
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...]