Monthly Archives: December 2012

“You ain’t heard nuthin’ yet!” Sydney audiences broke all box office records in late December 1928 when The Jazz Singer opened at the Lyceum, and The Red Dance opened at the Regent. In a week these two cinemas took £8,500! In November 1928, Western Electric engineers had installed Fox Movietone […]

The Jazz Singer and Sydney’s 1928 talkie war

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1920s Sydney had the largest network of tramways in the Southern Hemisphere, with 1600 tramcars running daily on 291 km of tram lines. This amazing video clip shows trams shifting 1000 passengers per minute at the end of the final race of the 1928 Sydney Cup meeting at Randwick Racecourse.

Trams in 1928 Sydney

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Annette signing copies of A Distant Prospect at Maitland 15 Dec 2012
McDonalds Booksellers, an institution in Maitland’s Heritage Mall, invited Annette Young to spend some time signing copies of her novel for customers this morning. In two hours, A Distant Prospect sold ten copies, while the late Bryce Courtenay’s Jack of Diamonds sold just two. One customer, unable to decide, bought […]

Outselling Bryce Courtenay

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GoodReadingGuide.com is a great resource for book lovers, and especially for parents and others wanting to choose books wisely. Here are a couple of quotes from Clare Cannon’s review of A Distant Prospect: “The author’s … love for and extensive knowledge of music, fine arts and literature shines through” “The […]

Good Reading Guide review by Clare Cannon

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Shipping preorders
Well, the elves have been busy, and there go the last of the preorders! A few lucky readers got hand delivered copies, but the rest should reach their destination later this week. And don’t forget the world premiere book launch at the Seraphine Cafe, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, High Street, […]

Out they go!

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