Biography
HUTCHISON, Anne
No Ordinary Life tells the story of a young couple’s experience of World War II and its influence on their lives.
ANDERSON, Gae
Harry Van der Sluice, an Adelaide boy, performed circus acts at home on Saturdays. Recognising Roy’s exceptional talent, the Fuller management team him with Nathan Phillips. This marks the beginning of Roy’s remarkable career on the Australian variety stage.
GLEESON, David
The author, David J Gleeson, was a high ranked station manager and detective in Victoria before joining the Australian Federal Police to work overseas. Following a series of incidents whilst deployed in Papua New Guinea in 2014, Federal Agent David J Gleeson is diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. His bucket was filled.
COSTER, DJ
D.J. Coster describes his life journey against the background of profound socioeconomic change in Australia in the 80 years since the end of WWII. It is not a story of personal achievement against the odds, but a description of factors that made the baby boomer generation more privileged than any other generation before or since, and the way national and global events, chance encounters, and luck, shape lives.
CHI, Jenny
Jenny shares her personal experience with music, how it has impacted her own life and especially how she utilized it so effectively in various and numerous ways. The book also contains the stories of her friends and family members and what music meant to them and how it enriched their lives.
RUSSELL, Dyson
In this debut anthology entitled Marching with a Broken Shadow, readers are invited to embark on that journey; delving profoundly into their innermost thoughts and prevailing feelings – from the deepest and darkest layers of hurt and confusion, to the most hypnotic forms of happiness and dream.
WHITE, John
This book is about coming from nothing and ending up in a reasonably good place. I’m not quite at peace with myself yet; I’m a work in progress and I’m looking to turn the next page and see what awaits. Read this book and learn how I survived, what drove me and how I keep moving forward.
DE PALO, Tania
This powerful book chronicles Tania’s life of unimaginable trauma, captured in stunning poetic form. From the young age when a brick was thrown at her head, to the brutal medical procedure that left her with the worst pain imaginable, Tania’s journey has been a constant battle.
CARROLL, Ivor John
Ivor John Carroll—a self-confessed ratbag—takes us on a sometimes comical and at times emotional journey through what it was to be a ‘copper’ during the 1940-50s. The array of fascinating characters with whom he worked—some loved, some hated—the continually changing states of ‘the job’, and the many and varied ‘cases’ on which he worked, are related in a frank, politically incorrect and unfiltered manner—he pulls no punches.
RIGBY, Ken
Oddly Enough is the story of an Englishman who emigrated to Australia in 1959 to work as a teacher, and, subsequently, as a psychologist, university professor and researcher, in which capacity he has established an international reputation for his work on how bullying can be countered in schools.
MARTIN, Cassy
Cassy was hidden away from the community, just tolerated at home, and told she was an embarrassment, useless and would have no future. Light at the End of the Tunnel is an autobiography chronicling Cassy’s journey through hard times and tough lessons supported by good friends and personal achievements.
BRUCE, Relly
The band tour the country focusing on their music and climbing the charts all the while facing the highs and lows of friendship, success, fame, and brotherhood.
Within 24 hours of celebrating an international tour opportunity, tragedy strikes the band, and all their dreams are left blowing in the wind.
BAUTISTA, Shane
A Story of Survival. Shade of all shades, many sights go unseen still beckoned in confusion, of a most stormy dream. These eyes will shut, the light will cut upon opening; an unexplored valley of shock and disbelief, of many streams coping.
HETZEL, Anne
This story was compiled through conversations between Anne and Janine through a writers group conducted at Helping Hand where Anne lives. Her life experience is fascinating to read in her humble words and leaves a lasting impression of a life fully lived so far at 92.
RALLUN, Rob
Anecdotal stories as experienced and/or seen by a typical Australian Larrikin. Rob Rallun has travelled Australia extensively, finding himself in all manner of strange predicaments, always searching for the humour in every situation and with a knack of retelling those tales, usually over a pint at the bar with some mates.
WATSON, Shane
Shane Watson is one of Australian cricket’s finest allrounders, representing his country 298 times. But in September 2015, Shane was contemplating retirement…
BEECROFT, Robert
Bob Beecroft was a top-tier footy player for 16 years. Though he has achieved many fantastic things in his life, he too has had his average moments. Real life happens…
FRENCH, John
Our world has indeed seen so many amazing events and transformations over the last 69 years. Not always do we take the opportunity to reflect on our life and opportunities.
This fascinating story covers…
HUXTABLE, Warren Henry
Warren Henry Huxtable was born on the 8th of October 1937 in Mallala, South Australia. This book is published that he may forever be remembered.
DICKSON, Peter
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.