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CROSS, Mary Talbot

Aug 27, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Australian, Fiction \ novel, Romance, South Australia

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ISBN 978-1-923214-64-4
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The Foundling

A tale of the Burra Burra Mine

With Fortune’s Fool: The road beyond Eureka

Re-published as a single volume, The Foundling and Fortune’s Fool paint an authentic picture of South Australia and Victoria in the formative years of European settlement, and describe a young woman’s compelling journey of self-discovery from the social injustices of the Burra Burra to the challenges of Ballaarat and beyond.

THE FOUNDLING. Abandoned as a baby, taunted as a child, Julia Stephen – the Foundling of the title – learns to survive in the West Country of England until her adoptive Methodist family sets sail for South Australia in the earliest years of European settlement, in search of a better life.

Necessity takes them north, to work for the South Australian Mining Association of the Burra Burra, whose regime rates the workforce far below the appeal of profi ts. When Julia settles in the Company township called Kooringa, her past returns to haunt her.

Who is the mysterious packman from Julia’s Devon childhood who follows her through the streets of Kooringa township? What is the grim secret she uncovers in the dank squalor of a dugout in the Burra Burra Creek?

FORTUNE’S FOOL. Ballaarat in the goldrush of the early 1850s. A place of glittering promise and deep despair; where hidden resentments will swell into open rebellion against the colonial government in December 1854.

Into this male-dominated sex-starved shantytown comes Miss Julia Stephen, seeking her Cornish lover. Quick-witted, resourceful – and unscrupulous – she becomes one of the most successful women on the Victorian diggings. When tensions erupt into bloody rebellion at Eureka, Julia Stephen’s life is transformed beyond her wildest dreams.

About the Author

Mary Talbot Cross was born in Devon, England, and is a graduate of Scotland’s Aberdeen University. She has written four novels set in historical times; in addition to The Foundling and Fortune’s Fool, Fate Knows No Tears tells the story of the Edwardian poet ‘Laurence Hope,’ while Resurgence is the author’s tribute to South-west France. Mary Talbot Cross is the pseudonym of the historian Jennifer M.T. Carter. She lives in Burra.

BOND, Stanley Arthur

Aug 16, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Australian, Autobiography, Biography, History, Military, South Australia

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Twists Of Fate

This remarkable story, compiled by his daughter, draws from Stanley’s manuscripts, letters, and newspaper articles written throughout his life.

TWISTS OF FATE spans eighty-five years, from 1914 to 1999, chronicling Stanley’s incredible journey from orphan to farm hand, Medic and POW, and ultimately, a foreign correspondent. The narrative offers a contemporary journalistic account of global history, covering pivotal moments like the 1926 British General Strike, life in German POW camps, post-war Europe, and the civil wars and unrest in Greece, Palestine, and China.

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Born in the slums of London’s East End and raised as an orphan, Stanley Arthur Bond’s life took an extraordinary turn during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Moving to a farm in New Zealand opened doors to work and study, setting him on a path of global travel and participating in and observing many of the twentieth century’s historic events.

WILLIAM, Curtis

Aug 15, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, New South Wales, Poetry

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All My Bad Habits

 

Poetry

Dive into the raw, unfiltered world of All My Bad Habits. This is a collection all about the chaos and beauty of going through the waves and motions of this crazy, beautiful and complicated world. Whether it’s falling in love so hard you feel your bones crack on the sidewalk
or realising you have an inner child who’s wounds need your attention. Along the way we pick up habits that are a product of this profound, beautiful and utterly scary experience of growing up as a young adult. The people that come through the doors of our life come in so many unexpected forms, and he would change everything.

Join the club and witness the weave of words with a deft hand, exploring themes of love, loss, addiction, and redemption. This collection is a testament to the power of vulnerability, capturing the essence of our most intimate flaws and the redemptive beauty found within
them. Bold, introspective, and profoundly honest, All My Bad Habits is a journey through the heart’s darkest corners and back into the light.

MALES, James

Aug 15, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Memoir, New South Wales, Sydney

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ISBN 978-1-923214-41-5
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Shock the Monkey

 

Living with Schizophrenia

“My dad found me on the street and he approached me and said hello, but I told him to piss off because I thought he was someone with a mask and that he wasn’t my father. It was very damaging for my dad to cop this. To think that I thought my dad was a man with a mask … I was so far gone. I told him I nearly tried to rip the mask off his face because I was so sure it wasn’t him. ”

Misdiagnosed, angry, and homeless, James’ journey through life became a nightmare for him and others around him. paranoid schizophrenia.

Afterall, that’s how it can be with paranoid schizophrenia.

TAYLOR, Bill

Aug 15, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Comedy, Fiction \ novel, South Australia, Travel and Adventure

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Driver’s Holiday

Entertaining, fun and light hearted

Tourism in Bali in the 70s was in its infancy as was Albert Driver’s employment as a tour leader.

After a confidence boost stemming from his time with lovely Bethleen Steele, and the help of Sudi (his beautiful Balinese assistant), Albert led a motley group of Australian salesman on a life-changing tour.

 

A beautiful but mysterious island, the group had to overcome disease, unhappy deities and bursts of undisciplined behaviour from some members to finish the tour.

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About the Author

 

Bill Taylor has lived most of his life in South Australia, either in Adelaide or on Kangaroo Island. He has also spent extended times away from Australia, including in France, where this tale was first written, and in Indonesia, particularly Bali, the location of most of the action.

He first went to Bali when tourists were a novelty and children would line up to cheer motor cyclists passing through their village. Certainly not the case now. He practised as a lawyer for much of his adult life and is now retired.

He has been married for more than fifty years to Caroline, who surely must be a saint. They have two adult children and five grandchildren.

STEVENS, Kym

Aug 14, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Alternative spirituality, Philosophy, Self-help, South Australia, Uncategorized

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Intentional Intuition

 

Awareness is another way of knowing

VALE   |  Kym Stevens  | 1954 – 2024

About 12 years ago I saw a need for information regarding knowing amongst the community.

 
I wanted to keep spiritual learning, simple, heartfelt, loving, and practical. It started as a series of 33 flash cards.
 
I scrapped that format recently realising that just opening a page to a step and reading was how I had been reading for about 9 years!
 
I became distracted by life and other practicalities which put the book and its development on hold (I believe I was waiting for world events to rekindle the book’s purpose).
 
So here it is!
Kym Stevens, July 2024
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About the Author

Kym was a remarkable person who touched the lives of everyone he met and had an extraordinary impact on those around him. He was a source of strength and inspiration, always ready to offer support and guidance. Kym’s legacy is one of love and unwavering kindness to his family and friends.

Professionally, Kym had a varied work life, which really allowed him to gain experiences across fields that later helped him help others in so many ways. Importantly, it wasn’t his career that defined Kym. He was a devoted family member, a life partner with Christine, a father, and a friend. His generosity and compassion were evident in everything he did.

Kym grew up between Glenelg and the farm at Williams Town with his father, Rex, and Mother, Joyce. He would tell stories about life on the farm, setting rabbit traps, and working with his dog.

One of Kym’s proudest recent achievements was writing his books on intuition and soul mates. The first has now been published – details can be found on this page. The latter is being helped by family toward completion sometime in 2024.

These books combine his various lived experiences and some traditional science understandings, which are underpinned and elevated by spiritual guidance and interpretations of life. They aim to help people find their way. Kym considered these books to be part of the legacy he wanted to leave with all of us, and we are all the better for him doing so.