"Ever thought of flying solo across the Tasman Sea in a rickety old biplane such as a Tiger Moth? Over the past 60 years, many people have accomplished this feat flying in a wide variety of aircraft and in both directions. However, the first man to make the solo crossing was Guy Menzies. The son of a Sydney doctor, Guy had learnt to fly with the Aero Club of New South Wales while in his late teens. He was just 21 when he made the crossing in January 1931. This flight was only one chapter in a very full and adventurous life - one that ended far too early." -Inside front cover.

The Man Who is an epic collection of tales of morality, love, violence and depravity set against beautifully evoked landscapes of 19th-century America’s virgin plains; tombs and sacred temples of Egypt and Nubia; and the internal machinations of British Intelligence.

Bill Guy's biography of Labor legend Clyde Cameron takes the reader from shearing shed to cabinet room, telling the story of the Australian 'left', it's history and its challenges for the future. Cameron's life spans four-fifths of the ALP's history and many of the great political events of Australia since World War II.

He was the consummate designer of film architecture on a grand scale. He was known for his visual flair and timeless innovation, a man who meticulously preplanned the color and design of each film through a series of continuity sketches that made clear camera angles, lighting, and the actors' positions for each scene, translating dramatic conventions of the stage to the new capabilities of film. Here is the long-awaited book on William Cameron Menzies, Hollywood's first and greatest production designer, a job title David O. Selznick invented for Menzies' extraordinary, all-encompassing, Academy Award-winning work on Gone With the Wind (which he effectively co-directed). It was Menzies--winner of the first-ever Academy Award for Art Direction, and who was as well a director (fourteen pictures) and a producer (twelve pictures)--who changed the way movies were (and still are) made, in a career that spanned four decades, from the 1920s through the 1950s. Now, James Curtis, acclaimed film historian and biographer, writes of Menzies' life and work as the most influential designer in the history of film. Interviewing colleagues, actors, directors, friends, and family, and with full access to the Menzies family collection of artwork and unpublished writing, Curtis gives us the path-finding work of the movies' most daring and dynamic production designer: his evolution as artist, art director, production designer, and director. Here is a portrait of a man in his time that makes clear how the movies were forever transformed by his startling, visionary work.--Adapted from book jacket.