What’s on Costello’s bookshelf?
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When Costello pens his memoir, where will he look for inspiration? The answer, presented unwittingly by The Australian’s front page today, is “Look behiiiind you”. Costello’s bookshelf is an interesting study. Caesar stands out immediately (we squinted but couldn’t see The Prince anywhere).
And what if we look closer? Australian Politics, Jonestown, The Latham Diaries, Loner: Inside a Labor Tragedy, Enough Rope DVD, Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy.
Our powers of sight end there. Do you recognise any spines (and we don’t mean of the vertebral kind absent in the Member for Higgins)? Email boss@crikey.com.au with the headline “Costello Book”. |
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11 Comments
The one with the medal - I think that might be Robert Fisk’s “The Great War for Civilization”!
The one with the medal - I think that might be Robert Fisk’s “The Great War for Civilization”!
I’m sure I can see a copy of “Smirking for Beginners”.
There is also a copy of “Bluffing and Blustering in Restaurants” (Canberra Edition).
The book to the right of Caesar looks like a Harry Potter.
And would one of the blue spines be ‘Not Happy John’ by Margo Kingston.
The one to the left of Australian Politics is definitely “The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East” Ha ha ha ha.
What would he write about? He hasn’t done anything except hold the doors of the coffers open for the mining money to roll in. He may like to call his “book” WIMPED OUT.
I’m sure I can see Jean Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness there somewhere
I spy Absurdistan by Eric Campbell - on the Caesar shelf to the far left, white spine.
There is a book on the top shelf about Cecil Parkinson, a one time Tory high-flyer who, in the end, went nowhere. I wonder why that would be of interest to Peter?
The one to the left of Australian Politics is the Robert Fisk book “The great war for civilization, The conquest of the Middle East,” as I’m staring at my own copy. There is another book third from the left, second shelf up with an interesting title. “Blown Bills” I think its called. Ah ha, ah ha how very appropriate considering it is the work of a treasurer who was all bombast and high inflation. “Blown Bills” indeed. Also everyone assumes that he has read all these books or are they the result of an interior decorator.