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MYF WARHURST Time of My Life. Reviewed by Virginia Muzik

MYF WARHURST Time of My Life. Reviewed by Virginia Muzik

by NRB | 1 Dec 2022 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Myf Warhurst’s memoir of life, music, and the media is like reminiscing with an old friend.    Many of us can recall a song we heard in childhood that blew open our world the first time we came across it. For a young Myf Warhurst, that song was ‘Howzat’ by 1970s...
JUSTIN HEAZLEWOOD Funemployed: The life of an artist in Australia. Reviewed by Walter Mason

JUSTIN HEAZLEWOOD Funemployed: The life of an artist in Australia. Reviewed by Walter Mason

by NRB | 5 Aug 2014 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Warning: reading this book can get you down if you are a creative in Australia trying to establish or maintain a career. Justin Heazlewood’s brilliant Funemployed is not all happiness and light. But in spite of its, ahem, realistic portrayal of the scene for...
             

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