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Barry Humphries
Barry Humphries' perennial success and his popularity with an increasingly heterogeneous international public have delighted all but a handful of curmudgeonly Australian journalists who are destined, alas, ever to remain strangers to Fame. His comic theatrical inventions have become accepted as national archetypes and Dame Edna Everage is the preferred role model for most of Australia's female achievers; albeit that the vetripotent, fescennine and priapic Ambassador, Sir Les Patterson, not seldom elicits from his countrymen an incredulous howl like that of Caliban on beholding his own reflection. Mr Humphries is an accomplished landscape painter, bibliophile and sometime music-hall artist. His books, translated into most European languages, are hugely popular, his stage shows enthusiastically patronized and his charming society much sought after by hostesses. Withal, he remains a pleasant and approachable person and a patriotic Australian. His autobiography More Please was published by Penguin in 1992. Barry was born in Camberwell, Melbourne, however now lives in London.
Available Books by Barry Humphries
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Handling Edna
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780733627187
RRP: $29.99
An intimate and penetrating examination of the world's most famous woman, Dame Edna Everage, by the man who knows her best.
In this unauthorised biography, acquired for an unprecedented advance and in spectacular secrecy, long-time manager and the man who was there from the very beginning, Barry Humphries takes a behind-the-scenes, no-holds-barred look at an icon of our times - Dame Edna Ever...
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Handling Edna: The Unauthorised Biography
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780733624001
RRP: $49.99
In this unauthorised biography, acquired for an unprecedented advance and in spectacular secrecy, long-time manager and the man who was there from the very beginning, Barry Humphries takes a behind-the-scenes, no-holds-barred look at an icon of our times - Dame Edna Everage. Superstar, swami, confidante and advisor to royalty, Hollywood stars and international political leaders, Dame Edna's li...
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Barry Humphries' Flashbacks
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732258252
RRP: $39.95
An Irreverent Look At Australia From The '50s To The '80s
Barry Humphries, one of Australia's sharpest social commentators, charts the evolution of Australian society from the fastidious fifties to the extravagant eighties in this light-hearted and insightful retrospective. This book delivers hilarious insights into the history and culture of a lively and often eccentric country, dra...
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Lewis Morley
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780977579082
RRP: $168.95
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Barry Humphries: More Please: An Autobiography
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140231939
Because Barry Humphries has deliberately furnished would-be biographers with whimsical fictions and blatant mystifications, the true details of his life are among the best-kept secrets of our time.
'More Please', prophetically his first utterance, reveals the man behind the actor. This best-selling book moves from suburban Australia of the 1930s, 40s and 50s to Humphries' internationa...
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Barry Humphries: My Life As Me: A Memoir
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140287455
'Barry you used to be so nice,' Louisa Humphries frequently said to her son. Now, in his maturity, Australia's most famous comedian reflects on his long journey away from Niceness.
Described by the author as a 'cubist self-portrait', 'My Life As Me' revisits his childhood, his adolescence, his love-hate relationship with Australia and his adventures of the heart and of...
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Barry Humphries: My Life As Me: A Memoir
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670040834
Described by Barry Humphries as a 'cubist self-portrait', 'My Life As Me' revisits his childhood, his adolescence, his love-hate relationship with Australia, and his adventures of the heart and stage.
In this heady memoir, his various fascinations - painting, travel, collecting, marriage and divorce - are explored, as are his friendships with comedians, artists and writers such as...
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Barry Humphries: My Life As Me: A Memoir
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670888344
'Barry you used to be so nice,' Louisa Humphries frequently said to her son. Now, in his maturity, Australia's most famous comedian reflects on his long journey away from Niceness.
Described by the author as a 'cubist self-portrait', 'My Life As Me' revisits his childhood, his adolescence, his love-hate relationship with Australia and his adventures of the heart and of...
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Women In The Background
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140298062
Life can't get much better for Derek Pettyfer.
He's rich, famous and between wives.
He's risen above his unexceptional origins in Australia to become the toast of the London stage and top-rating television performer. With his elegant house and enviable collection of Roman glass, Derek Pettyfer is at the pinnacle of success.
Next, the fall.
Slowly at first, then with frightening...
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