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Impressions of the Heysen Trail - Margrit Warmer
OUT NOW - NEW RELEASE - A Beautiful Book of Art, and Nature...
ISBN: 9780645945676 156pp 279 x 213mm
About the Book
This book Impressions of the Heysen Trail is the artistic creation of Margrit Warmer who, with a group of fellow hikers, walked the entire 1200 km length of South Australia’s iconic Heysen Trail. Starting at Cape Jervis, the book sets out the various sections of The Heysen Trail that can be walked from end-to-end, all the way through to Parachilna Gorge, in the Flinders Ranges. Margrit Warmer’s beautiful sketches and paintings included in this book are based on her photographs taken along the way, then produced using watercolour, pen, ink, and pencil. Margrit Warmer’s Impressions of the Heysen Trail is a tribute to nature, as she captures in her artwork the breathtaking scenes, charming walking trails, and the diverse and spectacular panoramas of the Heysen Trail. Impressions of the Heysen Trail is an inspirational journey through art, nature, and friendships.
Waylon's Beach Adventure
NEW RELEASE - OUT NOW - Head to the beach with Waylon!
ISBN: 978-0-6459456-8-3 32PP 220 x 250 mm
About the Book
A treasure of seashells is mixed with the sand
Small ones, round ones, some as big as a hand.
Waylon found one big shell near
And carefully held it up to his ear.
What did Waylon hear in the shell?
Join his adventure-filled day a the beach as he explores rock pools and enjoys other exciting encounters on the shore.
ALSO BY DON OSWALD AND MARK ROGERS - WAYLON'S GARDEN ADVENTURES
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Zoo Lullaby - Veronica Parmiter & Ari Lyons
PURRR GRRR ZZZzzzzz
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.
One At A Time by Cate Ellis
ONE AT A TIME, UP THE HILL
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.
Little Raven - written and illustrated by Bridget Uppill
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NEW STOCK HAS FLOWN IN! AVAILABLE NOW. Beauty and words in one little bird...
ISBN 9780645945621 - 32pp Hardback 254 x 203mm
Sometimes the darkest things show us the most beauty…
The idea for Little Raven came to author and artist Bridget Uppill after a walk with her newborn son at Woorabinda Bushland Reserve in Stirling, in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. She said, "I was sitting on a bench feeding my son in the beautiful winter light when a Little Raven landed on the bench next to me. I was startled at first as I had never really liked crows* but noticed how beautiful this bird was as the light reflected off its wings. I noticed its piercing blue eyes, its regal presence, and the way it cocked its head with curiosity at my son. When I reached out my hand to the bird, he flew away to watch me from afar. I wrote the poem Little Raven and began drawing the illustrations of the bird over an 18-month period."
Little Raven is a book about seeing the awe and beauty in something that is not seen as typically beautiful. Moonglow Publishing and Bridget Uppill are delighted to be able to share this idea with children to help them understand that you may have to look at things a little harder to see their natural beauty. This book is aimed toward older children but can be loved and appreciated by all ages.
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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+
ALSO BY DON OSWALD AND MARK ROGERS - WAYLON'S BEACH ADVENTURE
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The Image Collector - John Gitsham
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ISBN: 9781763721814 Size A4 204pp – Colour and Black & White Photography
About the Book
John Gitsham’s The Image Collector is a masterful exploration of simplicity, impermanence, the wonder of the natural world, the chaos of city living, and the beauty found in recognizing the transient nature of earthly things. Through his deliberate framing, use of abstraction, and keen compositional skills, Gitsham invites viewers to embark on a visual journey that celebrates the ephemeral, encouraging a deeper appreciation for the imperfections that define our shared existence.
This is John’s third book, following on from The Dream Theatre in 2020 and ambient in 2022. This book – The Image Collector - includes all new photographs. Some are shot on film and others are digital images.
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Adapting to a World of Hearing Loss, Tinnitus and Noise - Lindsay Childs
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ISBN: 9781763721807 Size A5 184pp
Many people have hearing issues, especially with older age, yet little is heard about their experiences and how they cope.
I’m sorry, I missed that… sorry I didn’t hear you…please speak clearly and slowly … please repeat that… PLEASE, don’t shout in my ear.
Likewise, friends and family can be confused and frustrated with the unwillingness of loved ones to get tested, wear hearing aids and socialize.
Turn the TV down… get your hearing tested…put your hearing aids in…why won’t you come out to the café?
Lindsay Childs lives with the invisible disability of not hearing well, ever-present tinnitus and sensitivity to noise. She shares her experiences with hearing aids, mic, audiologists, captions, phone calls, lip-reading and all the daily dilemmas of pretending to understand, deciding when to interrupt for clarification and when to withdraw. Accepting the loss and grief associated with hearing loss, feelings of loneliness and vulnerability, and questioning ‘who am I now?’ is challenging. Adapting and finding ways to enrich life is an ongoing process. Lindsay invites creativity and awe into her daily life and feels hugely grateful she can still hear birdsong.
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.
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
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’.
The Estate: Murder in the Veld by Lyn Dickason (E-BOOK)
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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Makerson's War - Max Simmons (E-BOOK)
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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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’?
Makerson's War - Max Simmons - Paperback
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AN 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.
WALKING THE LINE: A GRAFFITI MEMOIR - JIMMY C
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ISBN: 9780646890128 252pp 234x153mm and published by JimmyC.
'A new book recounting my involvement in the graffiti scene in Adelaide and Australia, the risks and adventures that ensued, and my gradual steps towards becoming a full time artist.' Jimmy C
James Cochran, better known as Jimmy C, is an aerosol artist who played a key role in the development of the underground graffiti movement in Australia during the early 1990s. His work is now recognised around the world.
Walking the Line chronicles his beginnings as an illegal street artist in the late 1980s and early 90s in Adelaide, Australia.
He reflects on how he became obsessed with the underground subculture following the death of his mother in a car accident. Unable to connect with his distant, grieving father, he finds solace and camaraderie in the illicit act of painting in the night.
As his skills develop, his home life crumbles, and the young artist tries to balance his aerosol ambitions with his desire to reconcile with his father.
Walking the Line is an honest and compelling memoir, a moving insight into the mind of a young artist driven to succeed.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Cochran, aka Jimmy C played a key role in the development of the underground graffiti movement in Australia during the early 1990's. After working on numerous mural commissions and community arts projects, he went on to complete a Masters Degree in Visual Arts at the University of South Australia with an interest in urban realist and figurative oil painting. His two interests in graffiti and oil painting converged, leading to the development of his signature aerosol pointillist style; portraits and urban landscapes painted from dripping dots and dashes of spray paint. He now lives in London and his canvases and walls can be viewed in cities across the world.
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.
BEWARE! The Loop by Jim Sinclair (E-BOOK)
E-ISBN 9780645945669 Downloads Available EPUB, MOBI, PDF
Time Travel. Nobody has done it yet, so this book is fiction at this stage. Jim Sinclair’s Beware! The Loop is an attempt to guess what the result would be if somebody actually did it. Tom Marsden, aka ‘Time Warp Tommy’ is asked to investigate the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a scientist experimenting with Time Travel. What he finds will shock you.
Tom Marsden has a master’s degree in Theoretical Physics and works in a small, obscure section of the government, officially called The Office of Esoteric Understanding.
When he was just twelve years old he tried to build a time machine in his bedroom, but disappeared on the exact same day his townsfolk were enjoying their Centenary celebrations. Had his experiment succeeded? Was he the boy who fell from the sky 100 years ago as the media claimed? Tom Marsden senior, his grandfather, unwilling to believe the hype, embarked on a global search for his grandson, ‘Time Warp Tommy.’ This in itself is an exciting tale but has been told elsewhere in Jim Sinclair’s The Search For Time Warp Tommy.
In this new technological adventure by Jim Sinclair, Beware! The Loop examines the circumstances surrounding a mysterious request to assist with investigations into the strange disappearance of a military scientist experimenting with Time Travel, in a small country in the middle of Asia.
Time Warp Tommy is asked to explain how the world’s greatest expert on time travel has built a time machine, climbed into it and disappeared into a grey haze. With only two co-workers left behind and a pile of hand-written notes and diagrams, Time Warp Tommy must devise a way in which the experiment can be safely ended.
With the help of his highly intelligent daughter Emily, what they discover will lead them into a web of drama and intrigue, danger and distrust. When the co-workers are charged with their superior’s murder Time Warp Tommy’s must explain the science to the judges in order to save their lives. But time is running out.
Beware! The Loop has many twists and turns, and facts and figures that will inspire your imaginations.
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DOLPHINS, WHALES AND ME by MIKE BOSSLEY (E-BOOK)
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$5 of all EBOOK sales will be donated to the "Whale & Dolphin Conservation- Australia".
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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Derek 'Groucho' Grove - The Cheats Have Gone
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!
CHAMBERS OF THE HEART: A Book of Poetry by Nick HUGHES
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POETRY FROM THE HEART
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.
Lady of Ice and Snow - Jasmine Knight (E-BOOK)
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ISBN: 978-0-6489862-8-7 2021 - Paperback currently out of stock - H-198mm x W-130mm 208pp contact the publisher.
About the book
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.
Goodbye Tipperary: A Life Story by Helen Hammond
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A COURAGEOUS MEMOIR - Vale Helen Hammond - 27/02/1943 - 24/12/2024 A courageous woman. PLease contact the publisher directly for sales. Email: [email protected]
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.
Reflecting: My Songs My Story by Dave Clark - Folk Singer and Poet
MUSIC TO OUR EARS
ISBN 978-0-6489862-3-2 Paperback 216pp
100 Self Penned songs, poems and stories of history, hope and humour, by renowned folk singer and poet Dave Clark. This 216pp volume of sheet music, lyrics, stories and poems is an historical archive of life, love and music in South Australia and beyond. A must musical resource for all folks, especially musicians and teachers.
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DOLPHINS, WHALES AND ME by MIKE BOSSLEY (E-BOOK)
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$5 of all EBOOK sales will be donated to the "Whale & Dolphin Conservation- Australia".
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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Makerson's War - Max Simmons (E-BOOK)
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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The Estate: Murder in the Veld by Lyn Dickason (E-BOOK)
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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 (E-BOOK)
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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 (E-BOOK)
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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BEWARE! The Loop by Jim Sinclair (E-BOOK)
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Time Travel. Nobody has done it yet, so this book is fiction at this stage. Jim Sinclair’s Beware! The Loop is an attempt to guess what the result would be if somebody actually did it. Tom Marsden, aka ‘Time Warp Tommy’ is asked to investigate the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a scientist experimenting with Time Travel. What he finds will shock you.
Tom Marsden has a master’s degree in Theoretical Physics and works in a small, obscure section of the government, officially called The Office of Esoteric Understanding.
When he was just twelve years old he tried to build a time machine in his bedroom, but disappeared on the exact same day his townsfolk were enjoying their Centenary celebrations. Had his experiment succeeded? Was he the boy who fell from the sky 100 years ago as the media claimed? Tom Marsden senior, his grandfather, unwilling to believe the hype, embarked on a global search for his grandson, ‘Time Warp Tommy.’ This in itself is an exciting tale but has been told elsewhere in Jim Sinclair’s The Search For Time Warp Tommy.
In this new technological adventure by Jim Sinclair, Beware! The Loop examines the circumstances surrounding a mysterious request to assist with investigations into the strange disappearance of a military scientist experimenting with Time Travel, in a small country in the middle of Asia.
Time Warp Tommy is asked to explain how the world’s greatest expert on time travel has built a time machine, climbed into it and disappeared into a grey haze. With only two co-workers left behind and a pile of hand-written notes and diagrams, Time Warp Tommy must devise a way in which the experiment can be safely ended.
With the help of his highly intelligent daughter Emily, what they discover will lead them into a web of drama and intrigue, danger and distrust. When the co-workers are charged with their superior’s murder Time Warp Tommy’s must explain the science to the judges in order to save their lives. But time is running out.
Beware! The Loop has many twists and turns, and facts and figures that will inspire your imaginations.
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