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The Pocket Paderewski

Moran, Michael
The Pocket Paderewski
From silent cinema pianist born in the Australian Bush to celebrity virtuoso entertaining Royalty in Mayfair-an extraordinarily magical and inspirational musical odyssey.The concert pianist Edward Cahill (1885-1975) rose to prominence from humble beginnings in the inauspicious setting of 19th-century rural Queensland. At a time when Australian concert artists were virtually unknown in Europe, he dazzled the salons of royalty, aristocratic patr...

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Always Almost Modern

Carter, David
Always Almost Modern
Was australian culture born modern or has it always been behind the game, never quite modern enough? Was it always already or only always almost modern? David Carter's essays examine the complex engagements of Australian writers, artists, editors and consumers with 20th-century modernity, social and political crisis, and the impact of modernisms. Always Almost Modern ranges from the great mid-century novels of authors such as Eleanor Dark and ...

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Who Will Believe My Verse?

Leyland, James / Goding, James
Who Will Believe My Verse?
What little we know of the life of William Shakespeare is at odds with what would be expected of the greatest humanitarian writer of the Renaissance. Is Shakespeare a pseudonym? The answer lies in Shakespeare's Sonnets and its baffling Dedication which is shown to be a code based on the ancient Polybius Square. The Dedication encodes the name of the scholar, politician and ambassador Sir Henry Neville who also encoded his diplomatic dispatches...

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