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CHILOV, Melissa

Apr 18, 2024 | *Featured books, Animals \ Pets Fiction, Australian, Children's Books, Painting & Illustration

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ISBN 978-1-923214-34-7
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The Quoll, the Pobblebonk and the Big Race

For years, the Quoll and the Pobblebonk have been battling to claim ownership of the prized piece of bushland in the cave. They decide to have a Big Race to settle the score, once and for all.

When Quoll’s six pups go missing, she thinks this is one of Pobblebonk’s nasty ploys to throw her off course. Will Quoll find her pups? Who will win the Big Race? 

Melissa Chilov self-published author

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This is the debut novel written by Melissa Chilov. She was motivated by her love of Australian native animals and her two school-age sons. Melissa’s other pastimes include being an optometrist, gourmet cooking and dining, and caring for her family pets (a cat and an axolotl). 

COLLINS, Damian

Apr 18, 2024 | *Featured books, Australian, Business, Manual \ Training Material, Reference

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ISBN 978-1-923156-82-1
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Property Investing Roadmap

How to build an income from property for life

Residential or commercial? Renovate or redevelop? Australians enjoy a feast of options when it comes to the nation’s favourite investment – property. But while most people only achieve one investment property, you can take your wealth to far greater heights using the right strategies.

In Property Investing Roadmap – How to build an income from property for life, Damian Collins, one of Australia’s most respected property experts, guides you through the spectrum of property-related choices, from how to buy your first rental property through to sophisticated strategies such as leveraging equity, property development, and diversifying a portfolio through commercial property.

Inside you’ll discover:

  • Why you need to invest
  • Signs that a property and location have growth potential
  • Strategies to manage cash flow as a property investor
  • How to build a team of experts to guide you on your property journey
  • Why the time to take action is now
  • How to complete a successful development project
  • Why it makes sense to start with residential and end with commercial property
Damian Collins self-published author

About the Author

A professional property investor for over 30 years, Damian Collins left his career as a Chartered Accountant to build a multi-million dollar personal property portfolio. As founder and Managing Director of residential property investment advisory, Momentum Wealth, and Chairman of property funds management company Westbridge Funds Management, Damian has championed opportunities for all Australians to reap the rewards of property investing. A former President of the Real Estate Institute of WA, Damian is regularly sought-after for commentary in media outlets as diverse as the Australian Financial Review, Australian Property Investor and Money magazine.

STOCKER, Reena

Apr 18, 2024 | *Featured books, Australian, Autobiography, Parenting & Family

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ISBN 978-1-923214-35-4
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Frozen Tears

An autobiography

An honest recount of resilience, culture and the love of a mother

Reena Stocker has written this book to give courage to those who have lost hope in humanity – to teach others to rise from the ashes and find the strength within!

Speak up and be heard!

No one has to suffer in silence; they can take everything from us, but we always have our Soul which guides us and encourages us to be the best version of ourselves we can be.

LACKEY, Clive

Apr 18, 2024 | *Featured books, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Historical Fiction

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Clive Lackey 19 May 2025

ISBN 978-1-923156-75-3
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Shepory Crossing: Jim’s Story

When the Shepherd family and the Gregory family pool their resources and talents the results are impressive and have repercussions far beyond the confines of the Kirconnell Valley.

Jim’s Story traces the growth of an Australian community from the 1890s through the global influences of two world wars and an economic depression. The story parallels the development of the Australian nation as it grew from a colonial outpost that rode on the sheep’s back toward the cosmopolitan society we know today.

Shepory Crossing’s characters experience floods, bushfires, economic growth and depression, the cannon-fodder controversies of WW1, the bitter divisiveness of conscription, the fall of Singapore and the horrors of Changi and the Burma railway. The story examines the effects of tariff protectionism in the 50s and the opening up of the outback by the motor car and the aeroplane.

Written in the first person by Jim Gregory, Shepory Crossing contains believable characters, historically accurate events and deeply moving romances.

Historical figures such as Breaker Morant and Henry Lawson stroll through its pages and touch on real episodes from my own family history.

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ISBN 978-1-923214-47-7
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Shepory Crossing: Christopher’s Story

This book continues the Shepory Crossing trilogy, commenced in Jim’s Story. It centres on the life of Christopher Gregory, son of Jim and Elise. It follows him as he joins the Australian war effort against the Japanese onslaught in 1941 and his subsequent incarceration as a prisoner of war in Changi and on the Burma Railway. Post-war he tries to settle down back home at Shepory Crossing. He marries Anne from Tarenvale and they eventually have a daughter, Jennifer.

The young family moves to the city and is soon swept up in the social, youth and sexual revolution of the 1960s and 70s. Christopher’s world is turned upside down when Jennifer sinks into a sexual morass of her own making. But more traumas are to come. He discovers the older daughter he’d unknowingly fathered during the panics of pre-invasion Singapore then faces the challenge of keeping his two families satisfied without compromising his marriage to Anne or his ongoing support to Jennifer. Anne’s growing feminism and the sexual revolution raging around them add more layers of confusion to Christopher’s life and add to the pressure he already feels from so many directions.

Like so many men of his generation Christopher is claimed by a sudden cardiac arrest, laying the foundation for Jennifer’s own story which forms the third book of the trilogy.

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ISBN 978-1-923214-43-9
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Shepory Crossing: Jennifer’s Story

Jennifer Gregory is the daughter of Christopher and Anne.

Inspired by her Auntie Gloria but brilliantly talented in her own right, Jennifer’s story picks up where Book Two of the Shepory Crossing trilogy left off. Jennifer and her family move to the northern beaches of Sydney where her over-active hormones run riot. Through her high school years her sole intellectual stimulus comes from the school’s brilliant gardener Simon Taylor. Despite the difference in their ages, Jennifer and Simon spark off each other and manage to keep each other sane.

A decade or so later they meet again, and resume their friendship. In the process the two of them re-write the political scene of the entire country.

MOFFAT TAPFIELD, Deborah

Apr 18, 2024 | *Featured books, Animals \ Pets Fiction, Australian, Children's Books, Painting & Illustration, The Arts

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ISBN 978-1-923214-01-9 
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The Perfectly Egg-shaped Egg

Caramel Shortbread was a Golden Pekin Bantam. One perfect spring day, she laid an egg…

A sprawling, vibrant story about a baby chick exploring the garden for the first time under the loving guidance of mother hen.

Full of luscious descriptions, you can almost feel the sun on your back and smell the honeysuckle flowers as you wander through the grassy pages.

Deborah Moffat Tapfield self-published author

About the Author

Deborah Moffat Tapfield grew up a barefoot wanderer on a farm in Willunga. Located on the stunningly beautiful Fleurieu Peninsula, overlooking the sea. She shared the farm with a menagerie of animals, many wild ones, but also horses, cows, ducks, cats, dogs, and, of course, chickens! 

Deborah has always loved to draw and paint and has taken great inspiration from the beauty of nature. She moved back to her family farm when she had her first child and still lives there, in a little hand-built roundhouse, with her loving partner and their two children, a Kelpie, two Guinea Pigs and currently … 16 hens, 2 chicks and a rooster … and a lot of eggs!