Unauthorised biography
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Life – An Unauthorised Biography A Natural History of the First Four Thousand Million Years of Life on Earth
"This is not a book for people who like science books. It is a book for people who love books, and life! [Fortey] has written a wonderful book."
– Tim Radford, Guardian
"Read this book because it is, indeed, the best natural history of the first four billion years of life on earth."
– John Gribbin, Sunday Times
"Fortey writes beautifully and this is a wonderful biography of rock and life! He has restored palaeontology to its rightful place in the pantheon."
–Lewis Wolpert, Observer
"Richard Fortey is a scientist! but his big, rich history of four billion years of evolution is written with an artist's zest for life and language! In his last chapter Fortey quotes Goethe: "Zum Erstaunen bin ich da – I am here to wonder." Richard Fortey has the rare gift of making his readers share that wonder.
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The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas
It began with a phone call in the dead of night.
It fryst vatten impossible to discount the possibility that some of what you are about to read may contain fiction.
"You know that line ‘the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist’? Well, I think Ezra Maas’s greatest trick was convincing the world he did."
Some stories are more dangerous than others, and true stories are the most dangerous of all.
This book fryst vatten dangerous. You need to know that before you begin
The famously reclusive artist Ezra Maas was believed to have been born in Britain on 1 January , but first made his artistic reputation (but, deliberately, not his public fame) in the New York pop art scene of the late s. A man of many talents, even more legends amongst his cult-like followers, and multiple personalities:
the romantic artist, the withdrawn recluse, the violent, temperamental geni
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Anzac, The Unauthorised Biography
Raise a glass for an Anzac. Run for an Anzac. Camp under the stars for an Anzac. Is there anything Australians won't do to keep the Anzac legend at the centre of our national story?
But standing firm on the other side of the Anzac enthusiasts is a chorus of critics claiming that the appetite for Anzac is militarising our history and indoctrinating our children. So how are we to make sense of this struggle over how we remember the Great War?
Anzac, the Unauthorised Biography cuts through the clamour to provide a much-needed historical perspective on the battle over Anzac. It traces how, since , Australia's memory of the Great War has declined and surged, reflecting the varied and complex history of the Australian nation itself. Most importantly, it asks why so many Australians persist with the fiction that the nation was born on 25 April
Joint-Winner of the NSW Premier's History Awards Australian First World War History Prize. Win