Dick Gross - Author and blogger

Books by Dick Gross

Death by Elegy

2011

In this book, author Dick Gross uses Thomas Gray’s eighteenth-century masterpiece Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard as a basis to examine a contemporary approach to death.

Now available from Melbourne University Press and Amazon.

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Jesus, Judas and Mordy ben Ruben

2006

In this thought-provoking first novel, Dick Gross introduces eye-witness Mordy, Temple priest and dove seller, and offers us a very modern, sceptical and at times scatological perspective on the events surrounding the first Easter in Jerusalem, and on the way history is made and told.

Now available from Australian Book Group (search for "Mordy).

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Godless Gospel

1999

A look at what should go into a bible for atheists and other non-believers. Godless Gospel is an attempt to find alternatives to those things that religions do well (or try to do well), such as morality, meaning and consolation for death and suffering.

Currently out of print.

Tricontinental: the rise and fall of a merchant bank

1991

(With Hugo Armstrong)

The astonishing and alarming story of Tricontinental is also the story of the roller coaster ride of Australian finance throughout the eighties.

Currently out of print.

 

Money for Jam, how to spread it and not make a mess

1990

"A humorous, entertaining introduction to the topic of personal finance from a consumer perspective."

Choice magazine

Currently out of print.