Barry Humphries - Other Work

Other Work

Humphries is the author of many books including two autobiographies, two novels and a treatise on Chinese drama in the goldfields. He has written several plays and has made dozens of recordings. His first autobiography More Please won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography in 1993.

  • Bizarre. Compilation. London: Elek Books, 1965.
  • Barry Humphries' Book of Innocent Austral Verse. Anthology. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1968.
  • Bazza Pulls It Off!: More Adventures of Barry McKenzie. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1971.
  • The Wonderful World of Barry MacKenzie. With Nicholas Garland; a comic strip. London: Private Eye/Andre Deutsch, 1971.
  • Barry McKenzie Holds His Own. Photoplay, with Bruce Beresford. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1974.
  • Dame Edna's Coffee Table Book: A guide to gracious living and the finer things of life by one of the first ladies of world theatre. Compendium. Sydney: Sphere Books, 1976.
  • Les Patterson's Australia. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1978.
  • Bazza Comes Into His Own: The Final Fescennine Farago of Barry McKenzie, Australia's first working-class hero—with learned and scholarly appendices and a new enlarged glossary. With Nicholas Garland. Melbourne, Sun Books, 1979.
  • The Sound of Edna: Dame Edna's Family Songbook. With Nick Rowley. London: Chappell, 1979.
  • A Treasury of Australian Kitsch. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1980.
  • A Nice Night's Entertainment: Sketches and Monologues 1956–1981. A Retrospective. Sydney: Currency Press, 1981.
  • Dame Edna's Bedside Companion. Compendium. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982.
  • Punch Down Under. London: Robson Books, 1984.
  • The Complete Barry McKenzie. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1988.
  • Shades of Sandy Stone. Edinburgh, Tragara Press, 1989. Limited edition.
  • My Gorgeous Life. As Edna Everage. London: Macmillan, 1989.
  • More Please. Autobiography. London, New York, Ringwood, Toronto, and Auckland: Viking, 1992.
  • The Life and Death of Sandy Stone. Sydney: Macmillan, 1990.
  • Neglected Poems and Other Creatures. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1991.
  • Women in the Background. Novel. Port Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia, 1995.
  • Barry Humphries' Flashbacks: The book of the acclaimed TV series. Sydney and London: HarperCollins, 1999.
  • My Life As Me: A Memoir: Autobiography. London: Michael Joseph, 2002.
  • Handling Edna: the Unauthorised Biography. Sydney, Hachette Australia, 2009.

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