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DUTSCHKE, Richard

Aug 9, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, History, Justice, law and crime, Society
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The Towitta Tradgedy

This story recounts the inquest into the murder of Bertha Schippan on 1 January 1902. Her elder sister, Mary, was charged with the murder, but she was found not guilty. At the time, the news surrounding the murder and trial captivated the nation.

On New Year’s Night 1902, in a lonely farmhouse at Towitta, 13 year old Bertha Schippan was brutally murdered. She suffered over 40 stab wounds and the walls and floor of the house were covered in blood. She had fought her attacker ferociously before succumbing to deep cuts to her neck. Her 24 year old sister, Mary Schippan, went to trial for her murder two months later, but was found not guilty. The murder was a sensation at the time with unprecedented media coverage throughout Australia. Mary’s relationship with Gustav Nitschke provided the press with much to write about and the police with an apparent motive. The crime remains officially unsolved. Ron Nitschke, a nephew of Gustav Nitschke, researched the case for over 50 years. He spoke to many people who lived in the district and knew the family well, including his own family. Ron tells the story of the murder in great detail. We learn why the murder was committed and by whom. The vast majority of people in the Murray Flats and the Barossa Valley knew who murdered Bertha. It seems the only people who didn’t were the police…

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BAUTISTA, Shane

Feb 16, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Memoir
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Resilience: A Story of Survival

Resilience a story of survival is a compelling memoir. Shane’s message of hope, recovery, and resilience.

With the odds stacked against kids that come from being ‘State Wards’ – drugs, becoming a teenage parent, living a life of crime, prison and even death; Shane got out and worked towards obtaining a higher education that leads to a career as a Mental Health Nurse.

Shane is his own success story.

About the Author

Shane Bautista is a gay male who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He currently works as a Registered Nurse and has a passion in helping others. As a child, Shane was made a ward of the state and placed in foster care at the age of seven years old. Shane suffers from mental health issues with depression and anxiety. Sharing his story of survival growing up in care and becoming a success story by defeating the odds and having the resilience to have overcome many diversities in his life. Shane is a first time author. Completing his debut non-fiction novel, has been Shane’s biggest achievement yet. Shane’s memoir ‘Resilience: a story of survival’ is raw, confronting and inspirational. 

DICKSON, Peter

Oct 12, 2022 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Health & wellbeing, Melbourne, Memoir, Sport, Victoria

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ISBN 978-1-922890-68-9
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He was My Brother

The story of Rob Dickson and me

“A compelling story I urge you to read”
Gillon McLachlan, AFL CEO

One phone call, one sudden unexpected tragic event in a distant land. That’s all it took to shatter one man’s world and his close-knit family into a thousand pieces.

The death of Australian football identity, reality TV star and documentary maker Rob Dickson stunned his hundreds of associates and friends across Melbourne’s corporate, sporting and social world.

But none felt it more than his hero-worshipping younger brother, Peter. The bond between them was unbreakable. From an early age they were far more than brothers. They were mates, buddies, best pals and eventually business partners.

Rob’s death hit Peter harder than he or anyone could have imagined. The aftershock has lasted for years, taking its toll not only on Peter’s mental and physical health but also his family and business relationships.

In this uplifting memoir of survival and recovery he tells with brutal honesty of his fight back from intense despair, with Rob as his ever-present inspiration and guide.

He delves back into the pair’s childhood under the strict but loving eye of their Bible-quoting mother, traces Rob’s larrikin rise into the world of Australian Rules and details his ongoing struggles to rival his brother’s skill behind the camera.

An immensely readable story of highs and lows told with the sharp eye of one who has beaten the odds to reach the peak of his profession as an award-winning documentary filmmaker.

“They were the greatest storytellers I’ve ever known, mixing larrikin humor with existential wisdom that left their audiences laughing & crying, spellbound & uplifted. Their love for storytelling and helping others was outshone only by their love for each other”
— Ben Crowe Leadership Mentor & Mindset Coach.

KUCHEL, Todd

Jul 21, 2022 | Catalogues, SA Retail Catalogue Spring 2022

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The Passage of Conquest

During an evening, promising adventure aboard a galleon, eighteen-year-old Giselle is marooned on a tropical island.

As she begins to uncover remnants of an ancient civilisation, she learns that she has travelled to a parallel world and that the island was veiled four hundred years ago to prevent an ancient evil from escaping.

As the mystery of the islands history unfolds, Giselle is drawn into a desperate quest for a key that will enable safe passage home aboard the galleon, before it is used to unleash death and destruction throughout time and space.

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Having admired works of time travel and parallel worlds since a young age, T. D. Kuchel brilliantly captures the essence of reality with his fictional tales. Though, also partial to drama and a worthy love story, his tales flicker with romance and suspense.

A keen traveller, T. D. Kuchel longs for adventure and strives to write first-hand of locations around the globe. The plot for his debut novel, The Passage of Conquest, was conceived whilst sailing the Whitsunday Islands.

Between exploits, he resides in The Barossa Valley, where he enjoys quality time with his family, the local splendour of food and wine and writing in his home library.

To contact or learn more, visit www.tdkuchel.com

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Magnetic prose, dripping with intrigue, that catapults you head-first into the turbulent depths of Kuchel’s spellbinding narrative and leaves you gasping for air in all the best ways.

Emily Waller

An addictive, irresistible adventure that keeps you guessing right ‘til the end, filled with refreshing authentic characters and an engaging female protagonist. This book is the definition of a page-turner.

Jessica Atkins

SMIBERT, Kelvin

Jul 1, 2022 | *, *Featured books, *listed, design, Fiction \ novel, History, South Australia
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Who is Bill Jackson?

A historical Australian fiction.

A young woman sets out to write something about her family history.

She wants to start with the story of her late Grandfather, but her Italian Grandmother persuades her to research the origins of his German Father first.

This leads her in unexpected directions as a misty person she hardly knew existed becomes real and fills the stage. While events of the 1900s era of Australian history, quite new to her, open up.

About the Author

Growing up in outer suburban Melbourne, (Australia), Kelvin Smibert finished schooling with an interest in the sciences. Worked for a large manufacturing chemist while studying Chemistry at night at RMIT.  He spent 4 years of Wartime in the Navy, mostly as a Naval Beach Commando.

Returning to workplace politics was difficult. He enrolled at Melbourne University to do Electrical Engineering…But the urge to ‘Escape to the country’ was too strong. After 2 years he took up a Soldier Settlement block. During the 35 years there, he and his wife Nora spent a total of about 18 months spread over 5 years, 1973-1978, living in Iran. For which country they retain great affection. On one occasion flying from Australia to Tehran with a load of cattle.

‘Retired’ to Mount Gambier, South Australia in 1988. Nora continued with volunteer work and sport. While Kelvin formalised his Art hobby with a Certificate of Art. Which led to years of making 3D replicas of ancient Aboriginal ‘Rock Art’. The largest piece now in a New Delhi museum. Concurrently, he built a factory to make quality artists paper for local and export markets.

Both these projects led to travel, study and symposia in Europe and India.

Many years on the committee or board of various local organisations. Writing is a therapeutic old- age occupation.

The couple have five children and many Grand, and G-Grandchildren.