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Bob Ellis divides his time between screen writing, film directing, broadcasting, song writing, acting, mob oratory, regular journalism and ceremonial speech writing, a rigorous round of dining out and theatre-going, and his family.

Ellis' screenwriting credits, 'Newsfront', 'Goodbye Paradise', 'Maybe This Time' and the Paul Cox collaborations, 'Man Of Flowers' and 'My First Wife', all won major Australian prizes, as did his children's films, 'Fatty Finn', 'Top Kid' and 'The Paper Boy'. He is also the director of 'The Nostradamus Kid' and other feature films.
His books, including 'The Things We Did Last Summer', 'Two Weeks In Another Country', 'Goodbye Jerusalem', 'The Hewson Tapes', 'The Essential Ellis', 'First Abolish The Customer', and 'So It Goes' are regarded in his native land as small classics.

Bob Ellis' position as a war correspondent, social commentator, theatre owner, documentary director, dispirited collaborator with Werner Hertzog, nightclub turn and political mover is possibly unique. His hobbies are eating, conversation, film going, cricket, reading, and exploring the Ring of Kerry. He is now in his fifties, overweight but healthy, and a curiously happy man.

Available Books by Bob Ellis

Suddenly Last Winter: An Election Diary by Bob Ellis

Suddenly Last Winter: An Election Diary
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670075577
RRP: $32.95

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100 Days of Summer
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670074730
RRP: $32.95

Written in Bob Ellis's inimitable style, this is a very personal book about a period of intense political change in Australia. Ellis's diary-style narrative starts on 12 November, 2009 (when Rhys Muldoon picks Ellis up from Parliament House and drives him to visit the poet Les Murray at Bunyah for some lively political discussions) and ends on 7 January, 2010, when Bob's sometime mento...

And So It Went: Night Thoughts in a Year of Change by Bob Ellis

And So It Went: Night Thoughts in a Year of Change
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670072460
RRP: $35.00

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	Capitalism Delusion: 202 More Arguments Against Global Economics Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143203360 In the free market we trust. Look where that's got us. With our economy based upon money as illusory as God's love, Bob Ellis calls time on free market fundamentalism. We put our faith in a system that awards do-nothing CEOs with millions as their companies collapse and provoke a global crisis. We judge corporate success on the number of sackings, fund the privatisation of essential ser...
	First Abolish the Customer: 202 Arguments Against Economic Rationalism Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140281231 Economic rationalism at its heart is a refusal to spend money on the unnecessary... But what is unnecessary - and who decides. With eloquence, passion, wit and humour, Bob Ellis explodes the myths of economic rationalism. In this incendiary, life-affirming book, he reveals it to be, at best, little more than an empty fantasy which, as a guiding principle, has more flaws than a factory second. And,...
	Goodbye Babylon Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780670040827 Further Journeys in Time and Politics. From the author of 'Goodbye Jerusalem' comes the eccentric, ruminative, sharp, seductive chronicle of Australian politics over the past five years. With an endorsement of the author by Gore Vidal and NSW premier Bob Carr, it lifts the lid on the big-ticket items of war and elections while never losing sight of the minutiae of party politics and dail...
	Goodbye Jerusalem Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780091836658 Night Thoughts of a Labor Outsider. A portrait of the heart of the True Believers... For over three decades Bob Ellis has trodden the fringes of the corridors of power. Here he gives a personal insight into the tribe that is the Australian Labor Party: the personalities, the quirks, the fabled anecdotes and the grand ideals. 'Goodbye Jerusalem' is a reflection of the nature of Labor po...
	Night Thoughts In Time Of War Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780670041732 From George Bush's victory speech on the Abraham Lincoln in May 2003 to America's humbling in May 2004, Bob Ellis watched by night the carnage in Baghdad, Fallujah, Gaza and Tel Aviv and, as a political backroomer, the differing fates of Crean, Carr, Kerry, Blair, Bush, Beazley, Bin Laden, Latham, Arafat and Sharon and the Bakhtiyari family's quest for liberty in Howard's Australia...
	So It Goes: Essays, Broadcasts, Speeches 1987 - 1999 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780670889716 Bob Ellis's many differing lives as film director, politician, broadcaster, songwriter, novelist, playwright, actor, speechwriter, critic and mob orator inform this abundant, entertaining and lucid book. From the background whispers of Australian federal politics to the raucous Babylon of Cannes and the green remorseful beauty of Ireland and the cheerful heroism of Eritrea, from the surprising...

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