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Kevin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kevin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Kevin Patrick
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July 2019
Norman Clifford's Aerial Adventures
Above: Norman Clifford, Melbourne 1959Norman Clifford was one of many talented and enterprising Australian artists who created opportunities for themselves in a competitive comic book market in the 1950s by creating stories which resonated with local audiences, and stood out among the American and British comics which crowded newsagents' shelves at the time. His passion for aircraft and aviati
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The Phantom Unmasked: America's First Superhero
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Prehistoric Australia (Amazing Australia #1)
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Airborne Australia (Amazing Australia #2)
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| Did I read this book? No, I inhaled it. A 'Spaghetti Western' on paper, full of bloodshed, vivid landscapes, larger-than-life grotesques, and groan-inducing gallows humour. Definitely going back for more. ...more | |
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| My introduction to Coleman's work was his landmark study of censorship in Australia, "Obscenity, Blasphemy, Sedition", and from occasionally browsing through back issues of "Observer", the lively and informative fortnightly Australian current affairs ...more | |
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| L.P. Hartley famously wrote "the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there", and Gavin Souter's memoir of his wartime childhood in Queensland, Australia reads very much like a despatch from a faraway land - from an Australia that no ...more | |
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| It's always a pleasure to "discover" a new author for yourself and enjoy the anticipation of rummaging through their previously published works. The first book I read of Gordon Burn's was his true-crime work, Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son, about ...more | |
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| I remember seeing a well-thumbed paperback edition of this book being nestled in among my late mum's collection of true crime books, adjacent to her even larger collection of "classic" British crime novelists (Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. ...more | |
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James Warren, Empire of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella. SC edition.
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| I've always been as interested in the business and economics of comic book publishing as I have been in comic books themselves, so this lively biography of James Warren, whose horror comics empire revolutionised the American comics industry in the ea ...more | |
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| This book is an evocative snapshot of postwar Melbourne, seen through the lens of the shocking murder of Beth Williams, whose body was found on a beach in 1949. Her accused killer, John Bryan Kerr, a handsome and debonair radio announcer, became a bo ...more | |
