Search Results: Titles starting with X from Bookhome Sydney

Melbourne: Printed by G. W. Green, 1956. Paperback quarto, pamphlet, stapled (rusted), very good condition, black & white text-photos, single-colour vignettes, minor edgewear, minor creasing (particularly one page), cover lightly soiled. 16 pp. Souvenir brochure for the Melbourne Olympic Games (1956). Contains official program (1 page) and photos of the venue. But mostly a list of cities and towns of Australia that visitors to Australia may wish to include in their plans.

Brisbane, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press (UQP), 1998. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, minor edgewear jacket, pages little toned as common. 349 pp. This is the first biography of Queensland novelist Xavier Herbert (1901 - 1984), author of the award-winning "Capricornia". Examines the contradictions at the core of his turbulent life and career. It charts his lifelong quest to discover the reality of his existence and to forge a larger-than-life identity. The book highlights his compulsion to write and shows his abiding themes, including those relating to sex and women. There are many photos, some of which have never been published before.

Melbourne: Penguin Books Australia, 2019. Paperback small trade, very good plus condition, minor edgewear. 134 pp. Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and aggression that few foresaw when he came to power in 2012. Finally, he is meeting resistance, both at home among disgruntled officials and disillusioned technocrats, and abroad from an emerging coalition of Western nations that seem determined to resist China's geopolitical and high-tech expansion. A Penguin Special from the Lowry Institute in Australia.