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Life Actually: A Feast of 500-Word Memories - Revised & Limited 3rd Edition
NEW RELEASE - Limited 3rd Edition
ISBN 9780645945607 - Paperback - 382pp
This thoughtfully revised and updated 3rd Edition includes an additional 500-word memory dedicated to the author's late father Brian Sarre; an extended Index of Friends and Acquaintances Mentioned in Rick's witty and insightful 500-word memories; and some updated photographs from his collection.
Rick Sarre has been the ‘go to’ legal commentator on ABC local radio for over two decades, and a regular contributor on legal matters for The Conversation and The Advertiser. Veteran federal parliamentarian Christopher Pyne once described him as his favourite electoral opponent. Now that he’s retired, Rick Sarre has written a series of personal reflections on education, politics, history, sport, religion, legal practice, academia, travel, and family life. Drawing upon 50 years of daily journal writing, in stories each of 500 words, Rick ponders his successes and failures, his joys and heartbreaks, and his likes and dislikes. He reveals his favourite acquaintances and the lessons that his life’s journey has offered him. His conclusion? That our existence on this planet is rich with meaning. While sometimes tinged with sadness, our lives are often punctuated with moments of exhilaration and peppered with random acts of kindness. These experiences are worth celebrating at every turn. In Rick’s own words, "That’s life, actually!"
This collection is a delightful and eclectic weaving of reminiscence and personal reflection, bound together with Rick’s witty asides and great insights. His curiosity and compassion shine. Read it, you won’t regret it. – Linda Matthews
Rick has taught and inspired a generation of lawyers in Adelaide. From his diaries, we now can see what inspired him! It’s a good read. – Franco Camatta
Dolphins, Whales & Me (3rd Ed) - MIKE BOSSLEY
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ISBN - 9780645299526 Size 155mm x 235mm - 270pp
Dolphins and whales are a “mind in the waters”, with self-awareness, culture, and complex communication. But they, and their cousins the whales, are under threat almost everywhere from hunting, entanglement, habitat damage and toxic pollution. This book puts Dr Mike Bossley’s research and activism into an international perspective on the campaign to protect these enigmatic beings. This book describes Mike’s epiphany watching dolphins bodysurfing with humans and goes on to describe his work in helping stop whaling in Australia and then reducing it worldwide, and how, as one of the founders of Greenpeace International, he helped the organisation evolve from a scattered band of eco-anarchists into the most powerful environmental organisation of the twentieth century. Along the way Mike Bossley has survived the attempted assassination by French commandoes who bombed the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour; turned an ecological slum into an internationally respected dolphin sanctuary; befriended a lonely hermit dolphin and performed psychotherapy on him; and documented the emergence of cultural behaviour in Adelaide dolphins. In many ways the situation is gloomy, but Mike Bossley hopes this book will inspire people to make a better world for dolphins, whales and all their oceans, and in so doing, to make a better world for all of us.
Dogs Are My Family by 'Red' Catherine Johns
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Paperback ISBN9780645299588 - 256PP 234x153mm
“For 75 years I have lived with many dogs, mostly rescued dogs. Dogs are my heart and in my soul, they are my loves and my companions and have been with me since my father first took me home after my birth and put me with the dogs in a playpen with the cushions all around to keep me safe and warm, to feel touch love and their beating hearts. This memoir is my and their stories from over the years of being together. The stories still continue today with my beautiful companions.”
Dogs choose to live with humans, they give unconditional love. For Catherine Johns they are her great love. With her dogs she has met amazing people, in the streets or on the beach, shared fascinating stories and heard how dogs have saved other people in many ways, the connection being our love of dogs.
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THE DISPATCH by Judith Lees
No. 1 Murder Mystery in the Adelaide Hills
ISBN: 9780645733631 276pp 234x153mm
Detective Dean Matthews is back on the force and he needs to solve this intriguing murder mystery.
A mystery of life, love and revenge.
The peaceful Adelaide Hills town of Ashcombe, still reeling from the murder of its local baker, is once again a major crime scene when the local butcher is found dead in his cool room.
Having served their time in Vietnam, three men return to their lives and their wives in the hills’ communities of Ashcombe and Wattle Creek.
It soon becomes clear that the war has changed them and the snowballing effects on their families, leads to tragedy.
Friends Bev, Anne and Carol had not expected their lives would be forever haunted by these changes in their husbands. How will they protect their families from unravelling?
Judith Lees vividly describes the lives and lies of those being investigated by Detective Dean Mathews and his old partner Detective Graham Solomon. But as they narrow down the list of suspects has Dean become distracted by his grief, love and loyalty?
Is everything what it seems in these idyllic hills’ towns?
First it was the bakers, then the butchers… who will be next?
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Also by Judith LEES - THE SILENT SYRINGE (2020- re-released in 2023) available now
The Silent Syringe - Judith LEES
NUMBER 1 CRIME FICTION IN THE HILLS
ISBN 9780648986201 254pp 234x153mm
The Silent Syringe is a murder mystery set in the Adelaide Hills and follows the lives of people connected with the towns’ bakeries. Sally and Dean have finally settled into their country cottage in the Adelaide Hills and are all set to expand their thriving bakery to other towns across the hills when tragedy strikes. When the body of a baker is discovered lying on the floor at the Wattle Creek Bakery their idyllic lifestyle is threatened by the subsequent events. Sally’s husband, Detective Dean Matthews is determined to solve the mystery of these despicable crimes. The story connects with the interwoven lives of people who have no means of escaping from their backgrounds. Harry believes that life couldn’t be better when his baby Chloe is born, his wife Janice doesn’t agree. Psychiatric sister Paula Jones can’t believe that she is
being blackmailed by one of her patients. Hearts are broken and lives destroyed in this intriguing mystery of lies, love and revenge.
Killer Island - Robert KOEHNE
No. 1 Crime Novel on KI! READ THE NOVEL THEY DON'T WANT YOU READING ON THE ISLAND!
Killer Island - A beautiful island with a dark past.
Second Edition with MAP - ISBN: 978-0-6452995-9-5 342pp 234mm x 153mm
Robert Koehne’s vivid descriptions of the Island’s beautiful scenery and local characters will have you enthralled as you unravel its dark secrets.
After a turbulent career on the mainland and an equally choppy ferry ride, new police constable Dudley ‘Deadly’ Nicholls arrives on the Island. He is expected to toe the line but when he stumbles upon a dark secret, he fights against all odds to uncover the truth.
He soon discovers that things are not what they seem in this idyllic tourist destination. With the Island’s famous Flinders Chase Cup set to go ahead, the high rollers are flying in and heading down to the luxurious Acacia Bay Resort. Ambitious and resourceful Mayor Don Ferris is hatching a plan to boost the local economy, while environmentalist Kurt Nilsen has other plans when he embarks on a four-day trek along the southern coast of ‘Killer Island’.
Waylon's Garden Adventures by Don Oswald with illustrations by Mark Rogers
ISBN 9780645733624 32pp 18x21cm
Have you ever seen a butterfly land on the ground Then flip and flap and flutter away? Have you ever wondered what the butterfly is doing today, and hoped it wouldn't fly too far away? Join Waylon’s adventures through the garden as he encounters the many interesting plants and creatures who live there.
A beautifully illustrated children's picture book - suitable for all ages 0+
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The Search for Time Warp Tommy - Jim SINCLAIR
ISBN 9780645733655 204pp 234x153mm
In most ways Tommy Marsden is your average eleven year old boy; he annoys his older sister Annabelle, and enjoys hanging out with friends. What sets Tommy apart from other kids his age is his interest in shortwave radio, and the fact that he is busy building a time-machine in his bedroom.
When he goes missing in strange circumstances on the same day as the Centenary Celebrations are to be held in Upper Wattle, Victoria, Annabelle wonders if he could be the ‘boy who fell out of the sky’ 100 years ago.
Tommy’s grandpa, Tom Marsden Senior, has another theory; and so the search for Time Warp Tommy begins.
Spanning the globe in an adventure worthy of Biggles, Jim Sinclair captures the mystery and drama awaiting Tommy Marsden. Kidnapped by a man with many names and shipped to the isolated rogue nation of Yaroon for the sole purpose of encouraging his research into Time Travel, how will Tommy survive?
As other young people join him, he realises there is something amiss. Were his parents really killed in a car accident? What ever happened to his sister and grandparents? Will he ever be able to escape and find his way home to Australia to reunite with his family?
The Search For Time Warp Tommy is a thrilling adventure, with many twists and turns, and facts and figures that will inspire your imaginations.
One At A Time by Cate Ellis
ISBN 9780645733693 32pp Paperback, W 215.9mm x H 279.4mm
What begins with one goat and one hill becomes a community, and that’s fun for everyone! In this beautiful and classically illustrated children's book the animals climb up the hill until they are all on top, and then they go back down again.
One at a time, up the hill. Two at a time, “Yes, we will.”
The words are rhythmic, fun and engaging, and the illustrations also promote numeracy. Can you find the hidden numbers on each page?
SCAN THE QR CODE in the book to access FREE Online Suggested Learning Activities suitable for early learners through to junior primary.
About the Author
Cate Ellis is an artist, illustrator, and retired art teacher. She lives in the Adelaide Hills and was inspired to create this book to encourage creativity and numeracy skills among children.
Zoo Lullaby - Veronica Parmiter & Ari Lyons
ISBN 9780645733648 Children's Illustrated Book 32pp 21x18cm
After a long day at the zoo Lachie the lion just can't seem to fall asleep. A story of friendship and working together, Tilly the tiger has an idea. Along with the other zoo animals she tries to help Lachie. Join the friends as each one adds their own unique song to create a zoo lullaby. Click on the video below to hear the author reading the book.
Strings on Me
Young Adult Fiction at its Finest
ISBN 9780645299571 342pp 198x130mm
Aiden Strong can see dead people. As far back as he can remember, Aiden interacted with the Others. But no-one else can see them. Why?
Aiden is connected to these ghosts by Trancey Strings that wrap around him and sprawl out through to the Dead World of Quiziria.
Aiden doesn’t like his ability and thinks it is a curse. He desperately wants to be rid of these ghostly connections.
When Aiden meets Vincent, his fate will change forever.
Can Vincent help Aiden to restart his life with the living, or will everything he loves be destroyed forever?
Reviews
“There is a sense of life to this story with the feeling of the characters’ emotions. I found myself more involved in the story with every sentence. There is truly a story in everyone. This book is an inspiration.”
Jasmine Knight, author of Lady of Ice and Snow
"If you’ve ever had the feeling that ghosts exist ‘Strings On Me’ will have you convinced. I was! Debut author E.D. Bridges has opened a whole new world of the ‘After-Life’ with a young psychic's struggle to conquer his fears. Strings on Me is written with empathy and understanding. The dramatic ending will keep you guessing."
Judith lees, author of The Silent Syringe
"The book offers a refreshing challenge to gendered roles through an incredible adventure in a world beyond our lived imaginations. The characters are brilliant, likeable and credible. The story is one of resilience and survival in the darkest of times.
Faye Janeway
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
E.D. Bridges grew up in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and currently lives in the small semi-rural town of Macclesfield, in the Adelaide Hills, an idyllic, quiet, natural
setting which provides the perfect environment to create and write stories. E.D. Bridges is fascinated by history, humanity and storytelling and the author’s main literary influences include Yoshihiro Togashi, author of Hunter x Hunter and Rick Riordan, author of Percy Jackson. Strings on Me is E.D. Bridges debut novel and was written during the global COVID-19 pandemic. E.D. Bridges is now busy working on a sequel.
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Makerson's War - Max Simmons - Paperback
Action Packed Read
Paperback: ISBN: 978-0-6457336-7-9 260pp 234 x 153mm
Two honourable men – both dramatically transformed by their participation in the Afghanistan conflict and their struggle to control their individual, manifestly affected lives.
David Makerson, an Australian Infantry Captain is severely wounded on a routine patrol by an IED explosion. During his rehabilitation, he lapses into depression and anomie; he becomes a shadow of his former self.
Saarim Darwish becomes head of his family after his father is executed by the Taliban. Saarim’s plans to attend university and study engineering are destroyed as he is forcibly recruited by the insurgents to join their network to construct roadside bombs.
Makerson needs to remember and take control over his life. Dangerously under-equipped, he returns to Afghanistan to exact his revenge. Enter Major Hannah Jardine; a military psychologist or the leader of a covert Special Forces operation to locate and cripple the major bomb-making cell in Eastern Afghanistan. Why is she so fixated on Makerson? Who is she really working for?
Makerson’s War explores their journeys of survival as they all deal with their respective situations and with those allies and enemies with whom they come in contact. Morality and values become a secondary consideration when their individual existence is threatened.
About The Author Max Simmons
Before his retirement from full-time work in 2001, Max was a senior Health Psychologist in the Adelaide offices of the Department of Veterans Affair’s Veterans Counselling Service. He continued his successful private practice consulting with veterans and private clients referred from local medical clinics. He has worked in the Geelong University Chronic Pain Clinic and has been a regular team member on the Deakin University, Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs) for the Doctor of Medicine since 2012. Max attained his PhD from Flinders University in 2007. Titled The Discursive Construction of War-related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, the thesis reviewed post trauma stress responses over the past 120 years and interviewed veterans, DVA officers and mental health providers dealing with the effects of war-related trauma of Australian soldiers over major overseas conflicts.
During the past thirteen years, Max has led groups on mindfulness and meditative approaches to chronic pain and trauma. He has self-published an e-book screenplay, Fall from Grace, examining the trauma response in Australian East Timor veterans. Max lives on the Victorian Bellarine Peninsular with his partner, Annette, and builds and runs workshops on wooden boat building.
Cage of War - Kerri Reeks
A Thrilling Read!
ISBN: 978-0-6489862-9-4 - 354pp H-233mm x W-154mm -
After being captured in Vietnam in the late 1960s Australian soldier James ‘Ned’ Kelly is eventually rescued by US special forces, but they are part of a rogue CIA team involved in clandestine war tourism called ‘Tiger Hunts’. He is rehabilitated but forced to join them. Kelly doesn’t take long to realise things are very wrong at this jungle base, including the theft of foreign aid, drug trafficking, political assassinations and war crimes. Kelly is trapped in this ‘cage of war’ until a tiger hunt goes wrong, and Kelly is wounded, left for dead. Again, he is rescued and finally sent back home to Australia. Discharged from the army he settles down in the scenic Adelaide Hills but an explosive chain of murderous events threatens his life, family and friends. Can Ned ever be free of this ‘Cage of War’?
Venturing Out: Poems and Portraits by ROGER REES
A Poetic Celebration
ISBN: 978-0-6452995-5-7 208pp - 153 x 233 mm
Venturing Out: Poems & Portraits is a celebration of interior lives, personal relationships and life events. Roger Rees reflects gratefully on life, in poems and literary portraits which are joyful, sometimes tragic, all of them extolling unflinching individual courage, resilience and personal warmth.
Review - Roger Rees’s writing is multilayered and defined by his compassion and celebration of the people and environment he loves. His poems invite an indwelling which is both brightening and soothing. They range from the moving childhood poem Winter Walk at West Humble to his honouring of the Hamar tribal people of Ethiopia, from his sonnets for courageous Russian poets, to the magic of music and his acclaim of people who experience life changing trauma. There’s humour and admiration that embraces life enhancing talent in Dancer at Universal and Elizabeth Campbell Recital. Roger Rees’s language rings with lucidity as in the beguiling historical poem The Westbury Quilt. This is a rich collection with endearing poems and portraits which explore joy and bliss, poised carefully alongside life’s anguish; all of this writing speaks directly of personal experience in a sharing of a full and empathetic life.
Keith MacNider
Review - In this brilliant array of poetry and short prose, Roger Rees takes readers on a journey at once personal and universal, local and global. Venturing Out is an evocation of poignant tales and recollections of landscapes, cultures music, and art. With a keen eye and sensitive soul, Roger celebrates the lives of brave and creative people in words that bring them to life.
Lindy Warrell
About the Author
Roger Rees is Emeritus Professor of Disability Research in the School of Medicine and Health Science at Flinders University.
He has twelve broadcast scripts for the ABC RN Science Show including titles such as: Humour as Medicine, Music and the Mind, Oliver Sacks Virtuoso, Buz Kashi and the Kempsey Bus Crash, Community Focussed Rehabilitation, Sailability and Stroke, Post-Concussion Syndrome –Ebb and Flow and The Battle for the Injured Brain.
His poems and essays have been published in The Australian, The Advertiser, The Age, Link, Arena, New Statesman, Cabir, Speak Out Vols 1- 12, Thin Air, Aust Journal of Psychology, Neuro Rehabilitation, Journal of Orthopsychiatry, The Courier, Argus, Times VH and locally in Milang Community News. Roger Rees has received ARC grants and awards for his writing notably the Flinders University Excellent Achievement Medal for his writing and promotion of equal opportunities. Significant titles among his eight published books are: Parents as Language Therapists, Out of Calamity – Stories of Trauma Survivors, Interrupted Lives – Rehabilitation from Brain Injury, The Art of the Possible, Rewriting the Script, and his novel No Turning Back.
His current work-in-progress is titled Steadfast in a Crumbling World, a non-fiction book about Sydney's The Chris O'Brien Lifehouse.
*The Author Roger Rees will be donating $5 from the sale of each book to Mental Health Research and Development.
Vistas and Visions of a Blind Man - Tony Doyle
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“There are none so blind as those who will not see.”
PAPERBACK ISBN: 9780645733600 314pp 234x153mm
This collection of poems and sketches will take you on an intricate, winding journey focusing on society, environment, science, politics, religion and many other, often poignant, aspects of life.
These poems contain critique, commentary, lots of humour, pathos, absurdity and a degree of red alert. They are more raised eyebrow than highbrow, a mix which may well appeal to people who don’t often read poetry. Tony Doyle’s poetic styles vary and references to blindness are sprinkled throughout the book.
These poems will entertain, challenge, amuse and perhaps even shock you. Some of them take a critical look at modern life, recent cultural changes and possible future scenarios. The widening gap between rich and poor is referred to in several poems. The author considers it to be a dangerous and undealt with phenomenon of the modern era. Other poems will cheer you up with a bit of irreverent and quirky humour.
In the early days of Covid Tony Doyle decided to try his hand at writing poetry. In this collection of poems, he opens up vistas and visions into the world he perceives and experiences with no eyesight but plenty of insight. Please join Tony Doyle on this engaging and often humorous journey.
CHAMBERS OF THE HEART: A Book of Poetry by Nick HUGHES
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ISBN: 978-0-6457336-8-6 154pp 130x198mm
This collection of poems by Nick Hughes is diverse and inspiring. The poems range from powerful social insights to intense personal explorations to light-hearted tilts at the great and not so great in society. Many of the poems were written and first read to the Mount Lofty Rangers walking group as Nick Hughes explored the beautiful Adelaide Hills with them. And so, there are poems that sing with the joys and delights of nature. There are many sonnets in the collection and these poems display a developing enchantment and fascination with the form. The combination of lyrical musicality and rhythmic symmetry is by turns surprising and bewitching. Nick Hughes skilfully wrestles both personal subjects and wider social issues into the constraints of the sonnet and makes them flow naturally. Some of the later sonnets are deliberately regular, allowing the metre and rhyme to amplify the meanings. Many of the poems are deeply personal and revealing but that is the point of poetry: to express meanings in ways that reverberate within the hearts and minds of others; to find words whose beauty and truth can resonate in human souls. Not every poem in this collection does that of course – some of them just seek to make the reader chuckle a bit – but the variety and range of the collection is very entertaining.
Derek 'Groucho' Grove - The Cheats Have Gone
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A RIPPING SPORTING YARN
ISBN: 9780648986270 250pp Paperback (size 15 x 23 cm)
The ‘Cheats Have Gone’ is a sporting journey with Groucho over more than 50 years, accompanied by not only our friends the umpires on and off the field, but also some of the more interesting playing personnel and their on-field persona, as well as extremely important off-field activities and characters. Humorous and tragic anecdotes, covering referees and umpires from a variety of sports illustrate the torments and stresses that affect these officials, or conversely the players and spectators reliant upon them. The book also exposes what can happen when a robot umpire takes over!
Groucho’s research and personal experiences reveal fascinating stories from the archives of some of South Australia’s sporting heroes, legends and other characters! The golden 70’s and early 80’s naturally abounds with many of these, as this was the core of Groucho’s active involvement. It is not restricted to just local tales though, as we also learn about the nuances of playing on the Nullarbor, as well as some of its more colourful celebrities from the past – and even head off overseas on a sporting ‘World Tour’! Finally, owing to the overwhelming popularity and advancement of Veteran’s cricket in Australia, England and others countries in recent years, the latter content is relatively current … and if you happen to take a stroll through the Adelaide Hills, do keep an eye open for any black panthers!
Ambient by John Gitsham
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Limited Edition Photography
ISBN: 978-0-6452995-3-3 (176pp A4)
AMBIENT is John Gitsham's second volume of his photography collection
Photography is a journey of chasing and painting with light and dark, the camera is just a box to capture latent images, whether they be on film or digital. It is up to the photographer to interpret what they see in pre- and post-production. Light is the most important component of photography: the way light falls on an object, a landscape, its various moods, and shades throughout the day. The creative process is within the artist and then reinterpreted by the viewer who may see something completely different from its original concept and intention.
John Gitsham shoots mainly in Black & White; it is his preferred medium in photography. For John Black & White shows the instinctive, the design and abstract in life, the image must hold up by itself and not rely on colour to give it impact. His images are ‘dark and moody’ in their appearance. He likes dark blacks and the full tonal range of greys to whites. And in some of the photos he uses a slight colour tone/tint to give the image a mood, but still retain the Black & White strengths and presences. His images are often pre-visualized, and some are montages of several images, some are older photos re-imagined and reworked, but most are found images as he journeys around with his cameras.
Ambient shows his love of the surreal, the abstract, the mystery of seeing images in a different way: different from how we usually see things in real life.
Ambient is beautifully presented on 150gsm sovereign silk paper and printed carbon neutral by Finsbury Press Adelaide.
BORN AT SEA: The Life and Art of Wood Sculptor Geoff Bromilow by Kathryn PENTECOST
BIOGRAPHY: ISBN: 9780645299564 134pp W-21cm H-25cm
Kathryn Pentecost has beautifully documented the life, art and work of the sculptor Geoff Bromilow in this biographical and photographic portrait of a man who was born at sea, on a British ship in the Indian Ocean. His family were leaving Australia temporarily, heading to the United Kingdom. When Geoff was two years of age, his family returned and settled in Brighton, South Australia.
Geoff’s life and art are interwoven. His work speaks of his immense reverence for the wood he sources in South Australia and Tasmania. Geoff’s sculptures pay homage to the spirit of once magnificent trees such as Huon pine, River redgum and King Billy pine – some of which took thousands of years to grow to maturity. Geoff’s life and art have endured over the years. In 2001, while exhibiting his sculptures in a New York gallery, Geoff and his friends were due to be at the top of the World Trade Centre at the very moment the terrorists attacked the towers with hijacked airplanes. Fate intervened. Geoff’s poignant photographs of the aftermath and destruction are included in this volume.
Dr Kathryn Pentecost is well-known as an author and teacher. Her work over many years has been published in the print media and online. Her career in the arts and education spans over 40 years. Kathryn has a PhD Social Sciences from The University of South Australia. Kathryn met Geoff in The Blue Mountains, NSW in 2001 and they now reside on their 10-acre farm in Delamere on the Fleurieu coast of South Australia, Dr Kathryn Pentecost’s website is: https://bohemianpalaceofart.wordpress.com/
Living, Grieving, and Finding Acceptance by Merrylyn Asquith
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Dr Merrylyn Asquith's book has two intertwining subjects. The first is an articulation of how Merrylyn experienced, eleven years apart, the traumatic loss of her boys to death. First her only son, and later, his only son. She briefly describes her earlier life and speaks of her subsequent second marriage. The primary and most important theme and purpose of the book is to encourage and point out the principles she has developed and practiced in order to grow her own grief lessons and painstakingly transform her mindset from grief to acceptance and to life happiness.
The book will guide a reader who has experienced trauma or one who has an interest in growing their own happiness and letting go of stress and pain.
Each chapter points the way to how you can indeed ‘let go and reframe’; alter unhelpful thinking patterns and follow the given strategies to achieve purposeful and considered decision-making to make better choices for self and others.
You too can develop and become the authentic, capable, and happy worthwhile person you choose to be. You can further develop your aim to nestle into a contented and happy life worth living. This book is invaluable to all who seek assistance in overcoming and eliminating all the barriers people have struggled against in a search for grief lessons, life happiness and contentment.
152 pages 140 X 216mms, ISBN: 978-1-925707-70-0,
Psychology / Inspirational / Memoir
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Goodbye Tipperary: A Life Story by Helen Hammond
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ISBN: 9780645945614, paperback, 100pp, 234 x 153mm,
Helen Hammond has written her life story to share with the world. This beautiful memoir includes stories within stories, showing the dynamics of families, the intense emotions around relationships and the evolution of friendship out of tragedy, rivalry and loss. While her life story takes its own path, it is immeasurably impacted by the influences of key connections, who have their own stories to tell. These stories are interlaced through and shape Helen’s experiences, reactions, and emotions, and often rely on contemporaneous correspondence and other records. This memoir attempts to bring those stories together, to reflect times past and the emergence of a strong, reflective, resilient and courageous woman.
DOLPHINS, WHALES AND ME by MIKE BOSSLEY (EBOOK)
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About the Book
Dolphins and whales are a “mind in the waters”, with self-awareness, culture, and complex communication. But they, and their cousins the whales, are under threat almost everywhere from hunting, entanglement, habitat damage and toxic pollution. This book puts Dr Mike Bossley’s research and activism into an international perspective on the campaign to protect these enigmatic beings. This book describes Mike’s epiphany watching dolphins bodysurfing with humans and goes on to describe his work in helping stop whaling in Australia and then reducing it worldwide, and how, as one of the founders of Greenpeace International, he helped the organisation evolve from a scattered band of eco-anarchists into the most powerful environmental organisation of the twentieth century. Along the way Mike Bossley has survived the attempted assassination by French commandoes who bombed the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour; turned an ecological slum into an internationally respected dolphin sanctuary; befriended a lonely hermit dolphin and performed psychotherapy on him; and documented the emergence of cultural behaviour in Adelaide dolphins. In many ways the situation is gloomy, but Mike Bossley hopes this book will inspire people to make a better world for dolphins, whales and all their oceans, and in so doing, to make a better world for all of us.
About the Author
Dr Mike Bossley has been active in research, activism, and environmental education nationally and internationally for fifty years. He taught at university for many years and has held senior positions in organisations such as Greenpeace and Whale & Dolphin Conservation. His research has featured in numerous international TV documentaries, newspaper, and magazine stories, and in various books. His thirty-year (and ongoing) research project on dolphins in Adelaide’s Port River estuary led to the establishment of the Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary. He has worked on many other marine conservation issues, including commercial whaling; the protection of Antarctica; and the plight of critically endangered Maui dolphins in New Zealand. He is an advocate for marine protected areas and maintains an involvement in education. He was awarded the Centennial Medal in 2000, Australian of the Year (South Australia) in 2005, and the Order of Australia in 2006 for his work in marine conservation.
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2nd Edition - Life Actually: A Feast of 500 Word Memories - RICK SARRE
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ISBN 978-0-6452995-0-2 376pp H-233mm x W-154mm (2021)
He's been the ‘go to’ legal commentator on ABC local radio for two decades, and a regular contributor on legal matters for The Conversation and The Advertiser. Veteran federal parliamentarian Christopher Pyne once described him as his favourite electoral opponent. Now that he’s retired, Rick Sarre has written a series of personal reflections on education, politics, history, sport, religion, legal practice, academia, travel, and family life. Drawing upon 50 years of daily journal writing, in stories each of 500 words, Rick ponders his successes and failures, his joys and heartbreaks, and his likes and dislikes. He reveals his favourite acquaintances and the lessons that his life’s journey has offered him. His conclusion? That our existence on this planet is rich with meaning. While sometimes tinged with sadness, our lives are often punctuated with moments of exhilaration and peppered with random acts of kindness. These experiences are worth celebrating at every turn. In Rick’s own words, that’s life, actually.
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Personalising Dementia Care: Constructing a Culture that Respects, Connects and Cares
ESSENTIAL READING FOR AGED CARE
ISBN 978-0-6489862-6-3 164pp Paperback (size A5)
“They are Still People!” This is what Dr Jenny Slape wanted to yell out to the staff at one aged care facility, when she witnessed their treatment of people living with dementia.
Instead, Dr Jenny Slape embarked on an in-depth research journey the findings of which are presented in this book.
Personalising Dementia Care: Constructing a culture that respects, connects and cares, reveals the challenges facing people living with dementia, their families and carers. The residential aged care sector is put under the spotlight here, and their corporate priorities are weighed against the culture and representations of ageing and dementia in our society.
As a society, we have high expectations of residential dementia care. Families expect their family member with dementia to feel safe and content, and to receive a high standard of care. Care staff expect to be valued and respected as employees, and sufficiently trained to perform their role. However, the outcomes of dementia care regularly fall short of these reasonable expectations.
Dr Jenny Slape discusses the culture of personhood care that is deeply grounded in the value and respect of each person. The needs of residents and staff are equally highlighted alongside competing priorities. Dr Jenny Slape provides a framework for personalising dementia care, and creating a culture of respect that connects and cares for people, at a time when the Australian Government is constructing its own response to the report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.
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The Estate: Murder in the Veld by Lyn Dickason - EBOOK
E-BOOK BEST CRIME FICTION
ISBN: 9780648986249
Set during the apartheid era in South Africa, a series of murders brings a divided community together. When the families of school friends Pumla and Nandipha move to the new Estate on the outskirts of the city, there is no school for them to attend. While their parents work on the farms or up in the main houses, and only after they have completed their chores for the day, these girls visit each other to practice the schoolwork they remember. Everything changes on the day Pumla meets someone on the bush path on the way to her friend’s house. Kate and Robert, acutely aware of their privilege, dream of a brighter future and dare to build a farm school for the children of the workers. While Thabo investigates the murder suspects, Zom gets a job constructing the new school building. Nandipha and her friends can’t wait to start school again, but the murders continue. Uncomfortable truths are revealed and lives are shattered. The oppressiveness of the time is contrasted with the warmth of new friendships and new opportunities. This is the story of the many characters that went against a system designed to divide them, and in doing so united the community towards a common goal.
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Lady of Ice and Snow - Jasmine Knight - EBOOK
E-BOOK YOUTH FANTASY
ISBN: 978-0-6489862-8-7 2021 - Paperback currently out of stock - H-198mm x W-130mm 208pp contact the publisher.
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When rivals Alex Venice and Kit Martinez are forced to work together to bravely guard the four realms, their volatile partnership is put to the test. When the Queen of the Winter Realm suddenly falls ill, Kit the daughter of the Goddess of Snow is blamed. To prove her innocence Kit and Alex must venture to each of the realms to find the ingredients needed to cure the Queen, but they only have seven days in which to do it. Each ingredient leads them on an adventure and as each day passes their true feelings for each other are revealed.
About the Author
Jasmine Knight lives in a small country town in rural South Australia. Inspired by the Mallee landscape and its extreme seasons, Jasmine Knight has created a gripping fantasy adventure. Jasmine Knight began writing fiction from a young age and The Lady of Ice and Snow is her debut novel. Jasmine loves reading and her major literary influence comes from Cassandra Clare’s The Infernal Devices series, and Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series. Jasmine is currently working on her next novel which continues the adventures of her lead characters Alex and Kit.
Vistas and Visions of a Blind Man - TONY DOYLE - EBOOK
EBOOK ISBN 978-0-6457336-1-7
“There are none so blind as those who will not see.”
This collection of poems and sketches will take you on an intricate, winding journey focusing on society, environment, science, politics, religion and many other, often poignant, aspects of life.
These poems contain critique, commentary, lots of humour, pathos, absurdity and a degree of red alert. They are more raised eyebrow than highbrow, a mix which may well appeal to people who don’t often read poetry. Tony Doyle’s poetic styles vary and references to blindness are sprinkled throughout the book.
These poems will entertain, challenge, amuse and perhaps even shock you. Some of them take a critical look at modern life, recent cultural changes and possible future scenarios. The widening gap between rich and poor is referred to in several poems. The author considers it to be a dangerous and undealt with phenomenon of the modern era. Other poems will cheer you up with a bit of irreverent and quirky humour.
In the early days of Covid Tony Doyle decided to try his hand at writing poetry. In this collection of poems, he opens up vistas and visions into the world he perceives and experiences with no eyesight but plenty of insight. Please join Tony Doyle on this engaging and often humorous journey.
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Makerson's War - Max Simmons - Ebook
E-ISBN: 978-0-6457336-6-2 (Available in EPUB and MOBI versions).
Two honourable men – both dramatically transformed by their participation in the Afghanistan conflict and their struggle to control their individual, manifestly affected lives.
David Makerson, an Australian Infantry Captain is severely wounded on a routine patrol by an IED explosion. During his rehabilitation, he lapses into depression and anomie; he becomes a shadow of his former self.
Saarim Darwish becomes head of his family after his father is executed by the Taliban. Saarim’s plans to attend university and study engineering are destroyed as he is forcibly recruited by the insurgents to join their network to construct roadside bombs.
Makerson needs to remember and take control over his life. Dangerously under-equipped, he returns to Afghanistan to exact his revenge. Enter Major Hannah Jardine; a military psychologist or the leader of a covert Special Forces operation to locate and cripple the major bomb-making cell in Eastern Afghanistan. Why is she so fixated on Makerson? Who is she really working for?
Makerson’s War explores their journeys of survival as they all deal with their respective situations and with those allies and enemies with whom they come in contact. Morality and values become a secondary consideration when their individual existence is threatened.
About the Author
Before his retirement from full-time work in 2001, Max was a senior Health Psychologist in the Adelaide offices of the Department of Veterans Affair’s Veterans Counselling Service. He continued his successful private practice consulting with veterans and private clients referred from local medical clinics. He has worked in the Geelong University Chronic Pain Clinic and has been a regular team member on the Deakin University, Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs) for the Doctor of Medicine since 2012. Max attained his PhD from Flinders University in 2007. Titled The Discursive Construction of War-related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, the thesis reviewed post trauma stress responses over the past 120 years and interviewed veterans, DVA officers and mental health providers dealing with the effects of war-related trauma of Australian soldiers over major overseas conflicts.
During the past thirteen years, Max has led groups on mindfulness and meditative approaches to chronic pain and trauma. He has self-published an e-book screenplay, Fall from Grace, examining the trauma response in Australian East Timor veterans. Max lives on the Victorian Bellarine Peninsular with his partner, Annette, and builds and runs workshops on wooden boat building.
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DOLPHINS, WHALES AND ME by MIKE BOSSLEY (EBOOK)
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Dolphins and whales are a “mind in the waters”, with self-awareness, culture, and complex communication. But they, and their cousins the whales, are under threat almost everywhere from hunting, entanglement, habitat damage and toxic pollution. This book puts Dr Mike Bossley’s research and activism into an international perspective on the campaign to protect these enigmatic beings. This book describes Mike’s epiphany watching dolphins bodysurfing with humans and goes on to describe his work in helping stop whaling in Australia and then reducing it worldwide, and how, as one of the founders of Greenpeace International, he helped the organisation evolve from a scattered band of eco-anarchists into the most powerful environmental organisation of the twentieth century. Along the way Mike Bossley has survived the attempted assassination by French commandoes who bombed the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour; turned an ecological slum into an internationally respected dolphin sanctuary; befriended a lonely hermit dolphin and performed psychotherapy on him; and documented the emergence of cultural behaviour in Adelaide dolphins. In many ways the situation is gloomy, but Mike Bossley hopes this book will inspire people to make a better world for dolphins, whales and all their oceans, and in so doing, to make a better world for all of us.
About the Author
Dr Mike Bossley has been active in research, activism, and environmental education nationally and internationally for fifty years. He taught at university for many years and has held senior positions in organisations such as Greenpeace and Whale & Dolphin Conservation. His research has featured in numerous international TV documentaries, newspaper, and magazine stories, and in various books. His thirty-year (and ongoing) research project on dolphins in Adelaide’s Port River estuary led to the establishment of the Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary. He has worked on many other marine conservation issues, including commercial whaling; the protection of Antarctica; and the plight of critically endangered Maui dolphins in New Zealand. He is an advocate for marine protected areas and maintains an involvement in education. He was awarded the Centennial Medal in 2000, Australian of the Year (South Australia) in 2005, and the Order of Australia in 2006 for his work in marine conservation.
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