Richard Glover Richard Glover i(A20881 works by) (a.k.a. Richard Conrad Glover)
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Best Wishes Best Wishes : Making the World a Better, Less Annoying Place – One Wish at a Time Richard Glover , Sydney : ABC Books , 2023 26517503 2023 selected work essay 'Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time. Do you hate gambling ads, pre-ripped jeans and pedestrians who walk five abreast? Do you also have a problem with plastic-wrapped fruit, climate-change deniers and take-away sandwiches priced at 14.95? And, most of all, do you think the world would be a better place if people got back their sense of humour? Here's proof you are not alone. Heartfelt and hilarious, serious but sly, Best Wishes is the Encyclopedia of 'Can Do Better'. It's a plea for a better world - one wish at a time.' (Publication summary) 
1 y separately published work icon Love, Clancy : A Dog's Letters Home Richard Glover , Sydney : ABC Books , 2020 19856707 2020 single work prose humour

'Heartfelt and hilarious, this is a book for anyone who has tried to imagine what their dog was thinking.

'Human beings often write about their dogs, but the dogs don't usually get a right of reply. In Love, Clancy, Richard Glover has collated the letters sent by Clancy to his parents in the bush. They are full of a young dog's musings about the oddities of human behaviour, life in the big city, and his own attempts to fit in. You'll meet Clancy as a puppy, making his first attempt to train his humans, then see him grow into a mature activist, demanding more attention be paid to a dog's view of the world. Along the way, there are adventures aplenty, involving robotic vacuum cleaners, songs about cheese, trips to the country and stolen legs of ham - all told with a dog's deep wisdom when it comes to what's important in life.

'With delightful illustrations by cartoonist Cathy Wilcox.' (Publication summary)

1 Rooted Richard Glover , 2018 single work prose
— Appears in: Welcome to Story Club 2018;
1 Getting on the Same Page Richard Glover , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 223 2016; (p. 21-29)
'An essay is presented on need for non existence of connection between literature and government. Topics discussed include involvement of Australia in literary patronage with establishment of a pension scheme Commonwealth Literary Fund (CLF) for older writers, broadening of CLF as it started funding for literary magazines and importance of literary prizes as it represent an exchange medium between conferring body and writer.' (Publication abstract)
1 Nothing Matches the Real '70s Richard Glover , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 February 2016; (p. 3)
1 Oh, for a Literary Cover-up Richard Glover , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 August 2015; (p. 3)
1 6 y separately published work icon Flesh Wounds Richard Glover , Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2015 8588178 2015 single work autobiography

'Richard Glover's favourite dinner-party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?'. It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob, who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard's English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed-toy collector. There was his father, a distant alcoholic, who ran through a gamut of wives, yachts and failed dreams. And there was Richard himself, a confused teenager, vulnerable to strange men, trying to find a family he could belong to. As he eventually accepted, the only way to make sense of the present was to go back to the past - but beware of what you might find there. Truth can leave wounds - even if they are only flesh wounds.

'Part poignant family memoir, part rollicking venture into a 1970s Australia, this is a book for anyone who's wondered if their family is the oddest one on the planet. The answer: 'No'. There is always something stranger out there.' (Publication summary)

1 Mother Load Richard Glover , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 July 2013; (p. 26-27)
'Richard Glover thought he'd learnt why his mum was so distant. Some time later, he found out the truth.'
1 2 y separately published work icon George Clooney's Haircut and Other Cries for Help Richard Glover , Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2013 6030260 2013 selected work prose humour

'Richard Glover′s deeply skewed stories of everyday life are heard each week on ABC radio′s ′Thank God It′s Friday′. He creates a world which is both weird and wry–a world in which Henry VIII provides marriage advice, JD Salinger celebrates tap-water and naked French women bring forth a medical miracle. It′s also a world in which shampoo is eschewed, the second-rate is praised and George Clooney′s haircut can help save a relationship. Bizarre yet commonplace, funny yet relatable, absurd yet oddly warm-hearted, in Richard Glover′s hands you′ll experience the true strangeness of the life you are living right now. INCLUDES: The Bin-It List: 25 things to avoid before you die.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 Readership Riddle Solved by Sherlock-Loving Son Richard Glover , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 July 2012; (p. 5)
Richard Glover reflects on the link between the enjoyment of reading and unhappy childhoods.
1 My Dirty Novel Pitch Has Some Stiff Competition Richard Glover , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7-8 July 2012; (p. 5)
Richard Glover, writing after the publication of Fifty Shades of Grey, imagines a world where all authors are compelled by their publishers to write erotica.
1 An Escape Hatch To Everywhere Richard Glover , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 February 2012; (p. 22)
'Books can take you to new worlds, provide solace when you are lonely and allow you to feel the joy and pain of others.' (Editor's abstract)
1 Our Talking Had the Whole World Turning Richard Glover , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 December 2011; (p. 5)
Richard Glover reports on his joint undertaking with Peter FitzSimons - the two men set out to set a world record for the longest radio interview. They succeeding in sustaining their conversation for twenty-four hours.
1 Once upon a Sydney : Captain Cook Cruises Richard Glover , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The (Sydney) Magazine , May no. 97 2011; (p. 36-37)
1 3 y separately published work icon Why Men Are Necessary Richard Glover , Pymble : ABC Books , 2010 Z1735520 2010 selected work column humour 'Wickedly funny stories of everyday life, as heard on ABC Radio′s Thank God It′s Friday. Meet the sexy and feisty Jocasta; confront teenage rebellion in the form of a fish called Wanda; do battle with magpies the size of small fighter jets; try to work out which font you use when speaking the language of love; and find out what men really have to offer. In Richard Glover′s stories, the day-to-day becomes vivid, magical and laugh-out-loud funny.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 What I Know About Women : Richard Glover Richard Glover , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Sunday Life , 10 October 2010; (p. 30)
1 Untitled Richard Glover , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 February 2010; (p. 4)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Mud House : Four Friends, One Block of Land, No Power Tools Richard Glover , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2009 Z1659841 2009 single work autobiography

'"One day," Philip said, "I'd like to build something bigger ... Like a house. We could just buy a block of land, you know, the four of us, and have a go."

'It was just an idea. Then it started to take shape. In this frank, funny and thought-provoking memoir, Richard Glover describes how he and his friend Philip and their partners built a house in the bush on weekends. It was a huge and exhausting undertaking ... not least because they decided to use mudbricks.

'"Imagine this -- with mudbrick you have a building that is made out of the very earth it stands on ... There is another thing: the stuff is free. Once we buy the land we'll have no money left. This way we can get started as soon as we have the block."

'In the end it took three years simply to make the bricks. As for the house itself ...

'But the process gave Richard the opportunity to examine things he had never quite reconciled to himself - big things like what it means to be a man, the nature of male relationships, fatherhood - and to challenge himself in the kind of blokey environment he had rejected.

'Above all, the mud house proved that even if it "wasn't the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel" there is nothing like the satisfaction of making something with your own hands.' (From the publisher's website.)

1 2 Breast Wishes Merridy Eastman , Jonathan Gavin , Richard Glover , Wendy Harmer , Sheridan Jobbins , James Millar , Debra Oswald , Bruce Brown (composer), 2007 single work musical theatre 'Breast Wishes is about love, loss, life and silicon. Breasts are a badge of femininity, sex, motherhood and stardom; they influence our identity and define us - they are in short marvellous! Big, small, melons, pears - half of us have them and the other half wish they did. Breast Wishes is an exploration of the roles we play as we traverse the rocky landscape of health, family and womanhood with great humour and pathos. A sophisticated and hilarious glimpse of cleavage and beyond.' Source: www.breastwishes.com.au (Sighted 30/09/2008).
1 2 y separately published work icon The Joke Trap Richard Glover , Gus Gordon (illustrator), Sydney : ABC Books , 2007 Z1396185 2007 single work children's fiction children's
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