Beyond the equator : an Australian memoir / Nicholas Hasluck.
2019
BIO HASL.n 2019
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Title
Beyond the equator : an Australian memoir / Nicholas Hasluck.
Author
Edition
1st edition
ISBN
9781925984118 (pbk.)
Imprint
North Melbourne, Vic. : Arcadia, 2019.
Language
English
Description
vi, 282 p. : 23 cm
Call Number
BIO HASL.n 2019
Summary
Like many young Australians in the 1960s Nick Hasluck set sail for London, in his case for a post-graduate law degree, but looking also for new horizons and ways to be a writer. From a seedy room at the International Language Club he explored the 'Kangaroo Valley' party scene around Earl's Court - until he met a girl from the Cotswolds who was to change his life, a romance leading to misadventures in Europe and eventually to a job in Fleet Street. Britain was opening up to him in unexpected ways. He recalls combative speakers at the Oxford Union - Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Tariq Ali - and luminaries in other places such as Menzies, Profumo, Field Marshal Slim and the controversial jurists, Hailsham and Denning. Along the way, Hasluck writes skilfully of becoming a lawyer, then a Judge, and also a well-known novelist. In this eloquent memoir the mind of the lawyer is constantly enriched by the style of the writer. To a lively storyteller the world beyond the equator is still the miracle it always was. - Publisher's website.
Formatted Contents Note
1. The international language club
2. Lamb, spam or ham
3. Hitchcock and other characters
4. Earl's Court and all that
5. A room of one's own
6. Ping-pong diplomacy
7. Letters of introduction
8. Spires and other spaces
9. Master of the rolls
10. The Hilltop in Lloyd Park
11. Parents and other people
12. New rooms and arrivals
13. From BCL to BYO
14. Knuckling down
15. Sally's country
16. Churchill's funeral
17. Speakers at the Oxford Union
18. Bowra's world
19. Menzies and Carrington
20. The not-so-grand tour
21. Athens past and present
22. Rome and the Vatican
23. Back to the main game
24. Football and other diversions
25. A Quixotic decision
26. The jewellery quarter
27. Facing the music
28. Sweet & Maxwell
29. Teh Woodston riddle
30. The police review
31. Relatives and railways
32. Going home
33. The way back
34. Irene
35. The garter box
36. Fifty years on
37. A writer's way
38. Closing the circle.
2. Lamb, spam or ham
3. Hitchcock and other characters
4. Earl's Court and all that
5. A room of one's own
6. Ping-pong diplomacy
7. Letters of introduction
8. Spires and other spaces
9. Master of the rolls
10. The Hilltop in Lloyd Park
11. Parents and other people
12. New rooms and arrivals
13. From BCL to BYO
14. Knuckling down
15. Sally's country
16. Churchill's funeral
17. Speakers at the Oxford Union
18. Bowra's world
19. Menzies and Carrington
20. The not-so-grand tour
21. Athens past and present
22. Rome and the Vatican
23. Back to the main game
24. Football and other diversions
25. A Quixotic decision
26. The jewellery quarter
27. Facing the music
28. Sweet & Maxwell
29. Teh Woodston riddle
30. The police review
31. Relatives and railways
32. Going home
33. The way back
34. Irene
35. The garter box
36. Fifty years on
37. A writer's way
38. Closing the circle.
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