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GERDES, Troy

Jun 22, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Poetry

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Life Out Here

 

Bush poems from the New England Region New South Wales, Australia

Life Out Here is a captivating collection of poems inspired by the vibrant life in the New England Region of New South Wales. It explores the people, places, and the absurdities that unfold in daily rural Australian life.

From “Life on the Land” to grappling with the “Black Dog,” and embracing the serenity of “Where Tall Timbers Grow,” this collection navigates the emotional highs and lows of country living. Rest assured, poetic license has been liberally applied, and names have been altered to safeguard the innocent. No animals were harmed during the creation of this book – just reputations.

About the Author

 

I was raised and educated in Armidale, Northern NSW.Growing up, I lived a life most boys dream of – from trapping and shooting, to riding horses and dirt bikes.Life on the land with my mum, dad, brother and sister was wonderful, and it contributed to my love of the NewEngland area.

My first introduction to Australian Bush Poetry came from my father, who would recite Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson on the long car trips from the New England when we visited family and friends.Later in life, I met a station hand named Baden Howe,on a property northeast of Armidale where I grew up.

Baden wrote bush poetry and country songs. I spent hours with him, listening and learning. Those afternoons truly ignited my passion for writing.Most of these poems are inspired by people I have met and events in my life.When I was a kid, living on the family farm and staying at mates’ properties on weekends fuelled my love of theAustralian landscape.

Life has thrown me some curve balls – from dances with the “Black Dog,” to a broken marriage, to battling twice with cancer.During the drought in 2019 and the subsequent bushfires, I gained Australia-wide recognition with my poem Strength in Numbers, which received more than 90,000 likes on social media at the time.I continue to live in the New England area, on our property Elderslie.

I am a family man, with my wife Kylie(Molly), our mixed clan of six kids, and a menagerie ofanimals.I believe all poems should evoke emotions – and that everyone should be able to find both a giggle and a tear in this book.Life out Here in the New England

WILKIN, Carol

Jun 22, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Action Adventure, Australian, Indigenous Fiction, Mystery Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller Fiction

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Spirit Risen

 

Existence is fragile but the past leaves its mark

Two story-lines intertwine between two very different times in the remote Tasmanian wilderness around Cradle Mountain. Hannah, a graduate scientist takes a break and travels with friend Emma to Cradle Mountain to work in the Lodge. The year is 1990. On her first night at the Lodge, during a fierce storm, she thinks she sees a dark face with pin-point red eyes staring at her through the rain-soaked window. So begins a journey of discovery.

In 1836, Charlotte and her family are trying to eek out a living on a parcel of land gifted to them by the government. Charlotte, against dire warning from her father, befriends an indigenous man and his family. She begins to sense something, another world or time. Charlotte sets out on a quest to discover what is the meaning of her visions.

Meanwhile, in 1990, a group of scientists is using the Lodge as a base for their preliminary research into finding viable DNA of a thylacine with the aim of genetic extinction reversal. Hannah questions if this is ethically the right thing to do. One shocking discovery will change Hannah’s whole world.

BROWNE, M.V.

Jun 19, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian

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Perimenopause Bites

 

She Had A Plan. Her Hormones Had Other Ideas

Hot flashes. Brain fog. Rage over pasta shapes. A rogue chin hair discovered mid-Zoom.

The Change is a Beast. Welcome to perimenopause. Nobody sent a memo.

Maggie Sullivan thought she was losing her mind. Her doctor prescribed iron supplements. The internet suggested celery juice. Her body, meanwhile, had other ideas.

What she really needed was Jules, Priya, an unreasonable amount of chocolate, and the realization that half the population was silently going through the same thing … and nobody had warned any of them. Maggie and her colleagues build something unexpected; a circle of women held together by coffee, brutal honesty, and being done with pretending that they’re fine.

Perimenopause Bites is the book that should have existed years ago. Funny where it needs to be. Honest where it matters. And packed with information nobody thought to give women when they needed it most. It’s a book for every woman who Googled her symptoms and ended up more confused than when she started. For every woman told it was just stress. A fictional story built on truth.

You were never the only one.

About the Author

 

M.V. Browne is a pen name.

The woman behind it has spent more than fifteen years in marketing and strategy across some of the world’s most recognized consumer brands. She knows what it means to hold her own in a boardroom while something entirely different is unfolding behind the scenes.

She wrote this book because the one she needed didn’t exist. What was available was either too clinical to connect, not honest enough to resonate, or missing the warmth and humor needed to truly help.

So, she wrote the version she wished someone had handed her, the one that says the quiet parts out loud.She lives in Australia with her family, an unreasonable amount of dark chocolate, and a water bottle that, after several failed attempts, is finally the right size.Perimenopause Bites is her first book, though unlikelyto be her last.

CLAESSEN, Rohan

Jun 9, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Biography, Memoir

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Tears At The Pier

 

 

What we lost at the pier, we carried for a lifetime.

Tears at the Pier is about my family leaving Ceylon aft er the removal of English as one of major languages of instruction during the country’s troubled transition from colonial rule to independence and our migration to Australia. It is also about the growth of nationalism and the pursuit of one language, one culture and one religion policy in favour of the majority Sinhalese, Buddhist population. This policy was the forerunner to the civil war between the Sinhalese and Tamils from 1983 to 2009.

It describes the mass migration of Burghers to other countries, the brain-drain of talent, and subsequent economic loss, which the country has strugg led to recover from. It also describes how the country is now reliant on ‘donor dependency’ loans from China, India and Japan to pay down debt, which has the potential to make the country vulnerable to the loss of sovereignty.

Dedicated to the memory of my Mother and Father.

SUMMERILL, Roger

Jun 7, 2026 | *Featured books, Australian, Biography, Memoir, New South Wales

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My Life in Radio

From microphone to management, a fascinating first-hand insight into the Australian radio industry.

In a long and successful career, Roger Summerill worked with many of the biggest names in Australian radio—as an announcer and later in station management. In this frank and revealing memoir Roger chronicles his life and career. He reflects on the many big personalities he encountered along the way—from radio stars like John Laws, Malcolm T Elliott and Richard Glover to the biggest show business names of the last half century—from Australians like Normie Rowe and John Farnham (and a pre-fame encounter with The Easybeats’ Stevie Wright) to international superstars like Roy Orbison and Elton John.

Roger also discusses the importance of family and community, and the role that faith has played in his life.

LEE, Warwick

Jun 6, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Biography, History, Memoir, Military

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Child of the Pacific

 

From the Empire to Independence, Through the Eyes of a Child

An insightful and unforgettable account of a young boy’s journey through family struggles, history, war and a nation’s aspiration to free itself from colonialism.

Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, was a contested island for nearly a century. Germany, UK, Japan and Australia each had interrupted periods of administration, influence and development of the island and region around it.

In 1975, Warwick witnessed the country’s shift into independence.

As a young boy, he watched the place he’d grown up in change for the better. For the first time, its people felt they could once again be at the forefront in determining their own destiny, and the excitement and optimism at such a prospect was almost tangible.

This one of a kind memoir is told through the memories and records of a boy who lived through one of the most major changes in PNG history, following him from his formative years to the country’s 50 year anniversary of independence.

About the Author

 

WARWICK LEE was born in Bougainville in 1955 and became an Australian citizen in 1965.

In 1966 Warwick was sent to Melbourne to continue his education. He completed degrees in Economics and Law from Monash University.

Instead of a legal career, he chose a corporate career path and relocated to Sydney, working for several companies including Exxon (Esso), Mitsubishi and National Australia Bank.

He is married with three children, four grandchildren and now lives in Brisbane.

Warwick maintains a keen interest in geopolitical matters and particularly relation to Pacific countries. Whilst he relocated from Bougainville many years ago, his interest in what was his birthplace has never left him.