Eli Beverley-Schack has lived in Sydney since he was 11 years old. A string of men’s hair salons suited his gregarious, extrovert personality. He and his wife travelled extensively throughout Asia and Europe, collecting memories.
Now retired, Eli enjoys his rooftop apartment in Neutral Bay, looking across to the city he loves, and reading. Always reading. He still travels frequently with his new partner, and enjoys harbour-side walks, attending live music venues, independent theatre, and is a regular presence at cinemas across Sydney. He enjoys festivals, obscure art movies, movies, national theatre productions and everything that the Sydney cultural scene offers.
He walks to local libraries to select books appealing to his latest interests, whether it be history, travel, politics, biographies, reads reviews of movies, journals and much more, and enjoys taking photos of the skies above his beloved city that litter his Facebook feed.
Eli observes. He sees. He goes beyond the superficial, and he shares.
A harrowing, gripping tale of the wretched agony that was Vietnam. 60 years on we wear clothes that say Made in Vietnam. Why did we lose so many in this protracted war? Many of the answers make this novel the …
Bao Ninh’s THE SORROW OF WAR, written in the stream of consciousness style, opens with the depiction of soldiers on a post war mission to collect the bones of fallen comrades, for reburial. Thus begins the narrative by Kien, …
An intriguing, ⁹and original interleaving of two storylines, one in 1920s Paris where Cecile Cabot is trapped in her family’s magical, dark circus and forbidden from a love affair that could set her free, and two, in 2004 America, …
Loosely inspired by author Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, the film uncoils as a family saga about former revolutionaries on the run from a terrifyingly eccentric white supremacist.
Its opening plunges into the guerrilla exploits of Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and …
In August 1871 the great Russian writer Ivan Turgenev went to Pitlochry, in Perthshire, to join a shooting party on some Victorian magnate’s estate. This is one of the multitude of fascinating pieces of information gleaned from Orlando Figes’s majestically …
Its rare for a consummate concert goer to be totally bowled over by a sublime performance that exceeds expectation.
So it was at a 90 minute afternoon performance by the effervescent Kuringai Youth Orchestra, who totally nailed it, to the …
This book scores a blistering revelation that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492 from Charles C.Mann a remarkably engaging writer. He is exemplary in fusing the union of meaningful facts with good
Ever wondered what happens to those sketches you doodle on restaurant napkins?In this film, tossed sketches by a school girl come alive and are enormous. What to do?
This is the plot by director Seth Worley. The “what if” scenario …
Barbara W Tuchman is is an amazing historian, twice recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, she enriches history like a terrific storyteller .
In THE MARCH OF FOLLY : FROM TROY TO VIETNAM, she does precisely as the title states, …
“Flies should choose their walls carefully’, was a quip that did the rounds at the time of Watergate. Some wag put it less succinctly, ‘All the President’s stink’.