Beyond the equator : an Australian memoir / Nicholas Hasluck.

North Melbourne, Vic. : Arcadia, 2019.

1st edition

90333

Novelists, Australian -- 20th century.

Lawyers -- Australia -- Biography.

1. The international language club

2. Lamb, spam or ham

3. Hitchcock and other characters

4. Earl's Court and all that

5. A room of one's own

6. Ping-pong diplomacy

7. Letters of introduction

8. Spires and other spaces

9. Master of the rolls

10. The Hilltop in Lloyd Park

11. Parents and other people

12. New rooms and arrivals

13. From BCL to BYO

14. Knuckling down

15. Sally's country

16. Churchill's funeral

17. Speakers at the Oxford Union

18. Bowra's world

19. Menzies and Carrington

20. The not-so-grand tour

21. Athens past and present

22. Rome and the Vatican

23. Back to the main game

24. Football and other diversions

25. A Quixotic decision

26. The jewellery quarter

27. Facing the music

28. Sweet & Maxwell

29. Teh Woodston riddle

30. The police review

31. Relatives and railways

32. Going home

33. The way back

34. Irene

35. The garter box

36. Fifty years on

37. A writer's way

38. Closing the circle.

Like many young Australians in the 1960s Nick Hasluck set sail for London, in his case for a post-graduate law degree, but looking also for new horizons and ways to be a writer. From a seedy room at the International Language Club he explored the 'Kangaroo Valley' party scene around Earl's Court - until he met a girl from the Cotswolds who was to change his life, a romance leading to misadventures in Europe and eventually to a job in Fleet Street. Britain was opening up to him in unexpected ways. He recalls combative speakers at the Oxford Union - Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Tariq Ali - and luminaries in other places such as Menzies, Profumo, Field Marshal Slim and the controversial jurists, Hailsham and Denning. Along the way, Hasluck writes skilfully of becoming a lawyer, then a Judge, and also a well-known novelist. In this eloquent memoir the mind of the lawyer is constantly enriched by the style of the writer. To a lively storyteller the world beyond the equator is still the miracle it always was. - Publisher's website.

9781925984118

vi, 282 p. : 23 cm