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Mark Thomson
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Mark has lived in Adelaide all his life, where he gained a diploma in Fine Arts specialising in painting. He has worked as a set painter and designer for films and theatre, as a photographer and newspaper editor, and has played in bands and worked in the music scene.
He makes ends meet these days by writing and designing print material, specialising in social issues and ideas. Mark spends a lot of time hanging around his shed, repairing various bicycles and trying to avoid working on his computer. He runs a semi-mythical organisation known as The Australasian Institute of Backyard Studies (formerly the Shed Institute and the Barbecue University of Australia). Some of the Institute's investigations may prove to be the subject of Mark's future publications.
HarperCollins has published Blokes & Sheds and Stories From the Shed, both of which have been hugely successful. A diary and calendar has been produced for 1997, and will also be released for 1998.
Mark says of Blokes & Sheds, 'The book is an attempt to revalue the shed in Australian life: to explain that it plays a central and basically positive role in many men's lives. This book took more than four years to make and involved visiting more than 150 sheds.'
Available Books by Mark Thomson
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Rare Trades: Making Things By Hand In The Digital Age
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732269043
RRP: $24.95
Author/photographer Mark Thomson delves into the history of rare trades - and the lives of the tradesmen who preserve them - to uncover a wealth of special tools, unique traditions and secrets.
The nature of work is changing. We no longer use our hands to make things. Human hands, capable of making objects of great utility and beauty, are now used to dial phones or press computer keys. We feel th...
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The Complete Blokes and Sheds and Stories From The Shed
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207198236
RRP: $29.99
A collection of stories and anecdotes about Australian men and their sheds in this new, combined edition of the bestselling books 'Blokes & Sheds' and 'Stories From The Shed'.
An Aussie man's pride can be measured by his shed - its size, what he stores in it, and what he can fix in it. Now, two bestselling books come together in one edition to explore and explain the male ...
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A Blokes & Sheds Book: Makers, Breakers & Fixers
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732283438
A bloke...
His shed...
The perfect relationship.
Like the dunny, football and a meat pie with sauce, the shed has an important place in Australian culture and mythology. It stands as a symbol of Aussie ingenuity, a testimony to a bloke's ability to fix anything with a length of fencing wire, a hammer and a piece of 4" x 2".
Venturing behind the icon curtain of this sacred domain, ...
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Blokes & Barbies
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732268886
Meat, Metal & Fire
The Legendary Australian Barbecue
This is the definitive book on the Oz Barbecue, packed with heaps of information on the ritual of BBQs. 'Blokes & Barbies' explores Australians' deep yearning for meat and how Aussie men fulfil their hunting and creative instincts in the ritual of the barbie. Includes over 150 weird and wonderful colour photographs of men ...
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Blokes & Sheds
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207189166
Like the dunny, the footy game and the meat pie with sauce, the shed has an important place in Australian culture and mythology. It stands as a symbol of the Aussie male's ingenuity, a testimony to his ability to fix anything with a length of fencing wire, a hammer and a piece of 4" x 2".
Venturing behind the corrugated iron curtain of this sacred male domain, 'Blokes & Sheds...
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Henry Hoke's Guide to the Misguided
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780733320422
Mark Thomson takes his reader on a journey to discover the undiscovered greatness of shed inventor extraordinaire.
Who was Henry Hoke? Watt, Boulton, Stephenson, Whitworth, Edison. . . these are the great engineers and inventors of the past who laid the foundation of our industrial strength and prosperity. Now there is a new name to add to that stellar field: Henry Hoke. Henry Hoke has only recen...
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Meat, Metal & Fire
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207197680
The Legendary Australian Barbecue
Take a slab of meat, a sheet of metal and a good smoky fire and you've got yourself the ingredients not just for a top-rate meal but for an event. It's part tribal bonding, part ritual ceremony, part bare necessity. That's the Aussie barbecue: a back-to-basics, one-size-fits-all outdoor celebration.
In 'Meat, Metal & Fire,' author/photo...
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Stories From The Shed
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207190704
Sequel to the bestselling 'Blokes and Sheds'
Shed enthusiasts from around Australia come clean on what goes on between blokes and sheds
What goes on between blokes and shed? In his first book, Mark Thomson ventured into the gloom of Australia's sheds to find out. In 'Stories From The Shed', enthusiasts from around the country come clean and tell it how it really is in the la...
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The Mini Book Of Blokes & Sheds
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207196843
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