“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”


DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)


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06 May 2012

ADELAIDE ADVANCES - MOVIE FROM 1954

Henley Beach, Adelaide, in the early 1950s ... click here to view a 1954 documentary featuring Sir Hans Heysen, the Oakbank Easter Racing Carnival, the Holden motor body works, the ships we were expert at building, the Waite Research Institute, and the burgeoning Penfolds winery at Magill, where the brilliant Max Schubert was nose to the winestone, hard at work on the fourth vintage of his beloved, but increasingly ridiculed, Grange.  Eighteen months later, he would open the fateful letter from Penfolds' Ice Queen managing director, Miss Grace Longhurst, advising him that he was to cease its production forthwith. Praise Bacchus that the Barossa blacksmith's son had the pluck to disobey her!

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