Strange Objects collected in Messenger's scrapbook. Steven Messenger has several psychotic episodes and eventually kills Charlie Sunrise and a lizard in Strange Objects. The book was partly a response to Australia's Bicentenary, which occurred in 1988. This event caused a revival of interest in Australian history, particularly in the "discovery" of the land. The bicentenary celebrated the landing of the "First Fleet" in 1788, and the beginning of permanent European settlement in Australia. James Cook charted the east coast of Australia in 1770, however there were a number of sightings and landings prior to this. In "Strange Objects", Gary Crew takes the
Francesca Solleville songs against Nazism, Francoism and the Vietnam War. Equally, she supported the workers' cause ("Le Chant des ouvriers"). In 1971, she recorded with Marcel Mouloudji and Armand Mestral "La Commune en chantant", a homage to 100 years of the Paris Commune. In 1975, she released "Chants d'exil et de lutte" based on the texts of Pablo Neruda. In 1988, she celebrated the bicentenary of the French Revolution with "Musique, citoyennes !". Allain Leprest wrote the words of her album "Al Dente" (1994). In 2004, she published her autobiography, "A piena voce", written with the collaboration of Marc Legras. In 2009,