Authors: Frank Moorhouse
FICTION
Futility and Other Animals
The Americans, Baby
The Electrical Experience
Tales of Mystery and Romance
Conference-ville
The Everlasting Secret Family and Other Secrets
Forty-Seventeen
Dark Palace
Cold Light
OTHER BOOKS
Room Service
Lateshows
Loose Living
NON-FICTION
Days of Wine and Rage
Martini: A Memoir
COLLECTED WORKS
Selected Stories (also published as The Coca-Cola Kid)
FILM AND TELEVISION SCRIPTS
Between Wars (feature film)
Coca-Cola Kid (feature film)
Everlasting Secret Family (feature film)
Conference-ville (telemovie)
Time's Raging (with Sophia Turkiewicz, telemovie)
The Disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain (docudrama)
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Grand Days
9781742752693
Published by Random House Australia 2011
Copyright © Frank Moorhouse
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First published by Pan Macmillan Publishers in 1993
First published by Vintage, an imprint of Random House Australia, in 2000
National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication Entry
Moorhouse, Frank, 1938-
Grand days/Frank Moorhouse
ISBN 978 1 74275 268 6 (pbk)
League of Nations - History - Fiction.
Man - woman relationships - Fiction.
Women diplomats - Fiction.
A823.3
Cover design by Gayna Murphy
Cover photograph © Condé Nast Archive / Corbis
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This description is based on the work of Catherine Pastuhova, in the book
The International Secretariat
by Egon F. Ranshofen-Wertheimer, and draws from the book
Yes, and Albert Thomas
by E. J. Phelan, from
The Guide to the Archives of the League of Nations (1919â1946)
and on my personal experience with the archives of the League.
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Actual person