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Bob Ellis Bob Ellis i(A8791 works by) (a.k.a. Robert Ellis; Robert James Keith Ellis)
Born: Established: 1942 Lismore, Lismore - Goonellabah, Lismore area, Far Northeast NSW, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 3 Apr 2016 Palm Beach, Northern Beaches area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
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1 4 y separately published work icon Bob Ellis : In His Own Words Bob Ellis , Anne Brooksbank , Carlton : Black Inc. , 2016 9697707 2016 anthology essay review diary

'Bob Ellis: In His Own Words is a selection of the best of Ellis's much-loved and celebrated essays, speeches, diaries and reviews, in addition to previously unpublished work, archival photos, and reflections from close friends and family. Compiled in collaboration with Ellis's widow, Anne Brooksbank, this collection contains all the wit, acuity and outspokenness that we came to expect from this inimitable wordsmith'. (Publication blurb)

1 Bob Ellis and Anne Brooksbank Bob Ellis , Anne Brooksbank , 2016 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Signed, Sealed, Delivered : From Women of Letters 2016; (p. 119-125)

'Dear Annie,

'This is too hard. I've written sonnets and songs and speeches to you, but this is too hard. In forty-four years I've not thought of this letter to you, the sort you write before the euthanasia drug kicks in, and it's too hard. On my mind are the ghosts of the children miscarried and the faces of those that survived. We should have started sooner, but then we would never have had the ones we know, just others with their names. But more, but more, for sure. The six or eight we thought of. How incorrect we were. A bigger Christmas dinner. More daughter dramas. More music round the table.'   (Introduction)

1 Les Memorables Bob Ellis , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 4 April 2015;
1 y separately published work icon The Ellis Laws Bob Ellis , Australia : Penguin , 2014 9730651 2014 selected work essay humour

'In these witty, outrageous ten laws, the well-beloved gadfly, sage and wordsmith Bob Ellis investigates dislocation and security, competence and charisma, youth and old age. He explains why bicycles encourage premarital sex, moving house too many times drives humans mad, 'the rising price of a roof ' is the root of all economic evil, and, most ominously, 'power flows to the most boring man in the room'. He alleges, pretty persuasively, that all CEOs - except, perhaps, George Lucas - should be sacked, fined or imprisoned. This is a book to cherish, re-read and pass on to generations less informed of how humans were at the turn of the millennium, and how much they got wrong.' (Back cover)

1 It's Don Dunstan's Life, But He is Missing in Action Bob Ellis , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 June 2014; (p. 30-31) The Age , 28 June 2014; (p. 30)

— Review of Don Dunstan : Intimacy and Liberty : A Political Biography Dino Hodge , 2014 single work biography
1 The True Confessions of a Frequent Flyer Bob Ellis , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 26 April 2014; (p. 29) The Sydney Morning Herald , 26-27 April 2014; (p. 31)

— Review of Diary of a Foreign Minister Bob Carr , 2014 single work autobiography diary
1 How Love Has Changed Bob Ellis , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Ampersand Magazine , Winter no. 6 2013; (p. 26-28)
1 Son in the Shadow Bob Ellis , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 27 October 2012; (p. 31) The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 October 2012; (p. 37)

— Review of Speechless : A Year in My Father's Business James Button , 2012 single work autobiography
1 What I Know About Women : Bob Ellis Bob Ellis , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Sunday Life , 19 August 2012; (p. 25)
1 Hello Sydney : Bob Ellis, Author Bob Ellis , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The (Sydney) Magazine , February no. 94 2011; (p. 28)
1 3 y separately published work icon Suddenly Last Winter : An Election Diary Bob Ellis , Camberwell : Viking , 2010 Z1751512 2010 single work diary
1 2 y separately published work icon One Hundred Days of Summer : How We Got to Where We Are Bob Ellis , Camberwell : Viking , 2010 Z1713243 2010 single work diary

'Written in Bob Ellis's inimitable style, this is a very personal book about the recent 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 mentor, Mike Rann, faces his recent assailant in in an Adelaide court. The books includes coverage and analysis of the next sitting of the New South Wales Parliament and the result of the South Australian election.

'Bob Ellis is close to many of the political players during this rapidly-changing period in Australian politics, but he also manages to stay plugged in to the cultural scene, and has plenty to say about the films, books and theatre of the period. It's very much a pre-election "rant".' (From the publisher's website.)

1 y separately published work icon 100 Days of Summer : How We Got to Where We Are Bob Ellis , 2010 7703242 2010 single work information book

Backgrounds events leading to Tony Abbott, q.v., becoming Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia in 2009.

1 Nowra Caught in Slips Bob Ellis , 2009 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , July vol. 4 no. 6 2009; (p. 26)
Responding to Nowra's review of his And So It Went: Night Thoughts in a Year of Change, Bob Ellis claims that Nowra reviewed his character rather than his work. Ellis states that there are at least 58 errors in Nowra's review and he challenges Nowra to a public poetry reading and a public political debate.
1 8 y separately published work icon And So It Went : Night Thoughts in a Year of Change Bob Ellis , Camberwell : Viking , 2009 Z1592667 2009 single work prose

'From the suicide bombing of Glasgow Airport and the flooding of England to the horse flu and the Chinese earthquake and the Bhutto assassination, from the rise of Turnbull and Rudd to the slow disintegration of Howard, Ruddock, Olmert, Blair, Musharreff, Mugabe, Costello, Nelson, Buswell and Bush, from the campaign insults of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain and Sarah Palin to the great economic meltdown and the night of Obama's audacious victory, Bob Ellis took notes, attended funerals, went to the cricket, wrote mordant midnight verse, walked his dogs and pondered on humanity's most formative interim in quite a while.

'No better meditation on the Iraq war's backwash and the propaganda weapons of the Right has been thus far attempted, no wittier essay on human mortality, the planet's fate, and the melancholy harvest of Australia's most rancorous political years.' (Publisher's website)

1 And Another Thing Bob Ellis , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: SundayLife , 26 April 2009; (p. 10)
1 Praise Be to the Memoir Bob Ellis , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: The Walkley Magazine , December 2007/January 2008 no. 48 2007; (p. 21-22)
1 A Gravely Joyous Bohemia Now Gone Bob Ellis , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 184 2006; (p. 82-83)

— Review of Wild Amazement Michael Wilding , 2006 selected work short story autobiography
1 He Went In To Bat with Words Bob Ellis , 2006 single work obituary (for Alex Buzo )
— Appears in: The Age , 19 August 2006; (p. 8) The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 August 2006; (p. 18)
1 Foreword Bob Ellis , 2005 single work criticism
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