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IRWIN, Stephen

Dec 13, 2021 | *, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, History, Medical, Memoir, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government

Providence stephen irwin book
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ISBN 978-1-922629-90-6
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Providence

When billionaire reality TV show king Howard Irwin announces he has cloned 21 of the past century’s world champion racehorses and plans to race them against each other in a globally televised reality show, the racing and sporting world go crazy. The clones are now three years old and ready to race to determine who really is the Champion of Champions.

Howard enlists three high-profile racehorse trainers – Logan Weston, Angus Masters, and ex-baseball star and rookie racehorse trainer Lance Holyfield – to put in front of the cameras. For the past 18 months, Logan and Angus have been slugging it out on and off the track and have brought life back into the racing game. Lance Holyfield, with his boy-next-door image and high-tech training style, is determined he has the goods to beat them both.

The trainers’ lives are exposed to the world 24/7 as the show follows the clones’ progress from training to race days. Howard thinks of one thing and one thing only – ratings – and if that means secretly exposing hidden secrets he will do it.

Providence follows the journey of the trainers as they compete to win the Champion of Champions crown with some of history’s greatest racehorses. Love, betrayal, and the excitement and glamour of the Sport of Kings all come together against the ruthless backdrop of reality TV in this fast-paced account of horse racing’s first-ever foray into racing clones.

 
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Retribution

When down-and-out Aussie horse trainer Logan Weston drove an upper cut into rival trainer Angus Masters, his whole word changed forever. He joined Baker Racing in the UK and, under their banner, swiftly becomes the most successful trainer in the world.

Fast forward two years and Logan Weston, Angus Masters and new trainer Lance Holyfield are about to go head-to-head racing the clones of some of history’s greatest racehorses in a new reality TV show. The clones and their trainers are beamed live to the world 24/7 on the reality TV show owned by US billionaire, Howard Irwin.

Howard didn’t become a billionaire playing by the rules. He will stop at nothing to drive the show’s ratings up – even if that means stacking the deck and manipulating his trainers and their relationships…

The Baker Racing family’s secrets are revealed to the world and their lives will change for ever.

Logan’s and Lance’s relationships are tested, along with their clones.

Angus, still fuelled by his need to topple Logan, pushes the limits with both his horses and his marriage until both reach breaking point.

Retribution is the third book in the Contention series which follows the journey of three horse trainers as they pull out all the stops to win the Champion of Champions crown.

About the Author

Author Stephen Irwin is an Aussie horseman born into the thoroughbred horse racing industry. His Contention series is written from a horseman’s point of view and a deep knowledge of breeding, training and racing thoroughbreds. Providence and Retribution are the second and third book respectively in his Contention series.

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KENSIT, Pam

Dec 13, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Poetry
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ISBN 978-1-922722-13-3
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Poems Outside the Fold

Poetry
is not a combination
of words
assembled together
to produce some
enchanting sentences.

It is much greater than that.
It is the canal
that permits the expression
of feelings that
invites others to
live every word
they read.

It offers the reader
the opportunity
to move beyond their
world
offering
a unique view
of a universe beheld by others.

It provides
a platform
to celebrate,
to rejoice,
to mourn,
to suffer,
using the instrument of words.

-Pam Kensit

About the Author

Pam Kensit was born in Southern Ireland. She met David while on a visit to Australia at the Narrawa Memorial Hall at 7am on New Year’s Day 1989. After a stint in Ireland where they married, she and David moved to the family farm, Moorabinda, in rural New South Wales in 1990. Once on the farm she threw herself into farm life and into the Crookwell community.

In 2000, Pam published her first book, Top of the Range Women. Then in 2005 she published Comfortable Food,
a local cookbook featuring rural food. From 2016 she has served on the Upper Lachlan Shire Council.

In 2018 her book Dust to Mud was published. She has produced two children’s books in her Weeloo series. She is an accomplished painter, showing her work both internationally and locally.

She has two adult children, Simon, and Pippa.

Pam lives at Moorabinda with David, three Jack Russell’s, a rescue greyhound, four kelpies, two cats and five horses and a lot of sheep.

Poems outside the Fold is her first book of poetry.

 
 

GORANITIS, Chris

Dec 12, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fantasy Fiction, Fiction \ Novel, Victoria

Stories of Palastoke by self-published author Chris Gotanitis
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ISBN 978-1-922629-79-1
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Stories of Palastoke

The Magical Academy of Steltaria

In the country of Palastoke, where magic is utilised daily and people prosper, all aspiring wizards and witches begin their learning in the years of their thirteenth birthdays.

Astrid Mesteela is another one of these aspiring witches, eager to learn magic and prove herself in magical combat at Steltaria Junior Academy. It could not be more exciting – many new friends to make, many spells to learn, and many ways to begin her dreams of acquiring fame. Life goes as planned, but when an expensive merchant organisation arrives at the academy for business, it turns out to be related to something more sinister…

About the Author

Chris Goranitis is a university student currently studying business. He has always been intrigued by many fantasy worlds, but there has always been one specific type of world in his imagination that he has been unable to find. This has inspired him to create the universe he has been searching for, taking inspiration from many other stories.

GEORGESON, Terry

Dec 9, 2021 | *, *listed, Australian, Children's Books, The Arts

Nana's Trip at the Beach by self-published author of Terry Georgeson
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ISBN 978-1-922527-93-6
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Nana’s Trip at the Beach

Going to the beach can be a simple everyday outing for many families. Sometimes ‘though, life has unexpected surprises.

This is the story that would not usually be put on social media, but is closer to the truth for some families, especially those with active, adventurous children.

My brother is Special. I am Special too book Terry Georgeson author
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My Brother is Special. I am Special Too

Many families with one child with special needs have other children. It is important for these children, who often need to wait and grow up a bit faster whilst a parent attends to the child with special needs, to know that they are special too.

About the Author

Terry has had over 30 years of reading many children’s stories to children and having adventures with many children and families. This is the first book of the adventures of two very special children and their family.

This was written for them and the first pictures were drawn for the family by Terry’s ten-year-old daughter Carla.

As the family showed it to a number of people who enjoyed it, Terry and Carla decided to share the story “Nana’s Trip at the Beach” with you.

 

GREEN, Michael

Dec 7, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Design, Fiction \ Novel, Historical Fiction, Queensland, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government
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ISBN 978-1-922722-84-3
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Sons of Grace

The saga (tale, story) of a mother’s love for her boys.

Abbervale, mining village, 1940s country Australia. The McCanns a local family, Grace the wise and strong wife and mother, Gordon, a mining team boss with elder son, Bruce. His brother, William, works in the mine office. Delicate daughter, Millie, dies.

In 1949 comes the long strike. Tough times for Abbervale. Gordon is killed in a mine collapse.

Grace and boys move to the city. William works as an accountant. He marries Ellen and soon a child arrives. Bruce rises to Party leader and muscles William into state premiership. But William is appalled by the extent of criminal corruption, tolerated by Bruce and the Party. He sets about reform.

Ross, police officer and friend of William, is killed by corrupt police. This is the turning point for William. He resigns from the premiership and announces a judicial inquiry into state criminal activity.

Sons of Grace is a story about a family, first in a mining village then in the city. Its focus is on love between mother, father, son and wife. It highlights the futility of words to reform corruption. It points to the success of courageous action and the value of a strong supportive woman.

About the Author

Michael Green QC is a retired Catholic priest, a retired criminal barrister, a fortunate husband (non-retired), a devoted father and grandfather, a passionate traveller and hopeless golfer. He has written three self-help books and three novels. A resident of Newtown, an inner-city Sydney suburb, he is a keen reader, and is an organiser of Newtown Literary Lunch, a monthly celebration of books, food and wine.

 
 

HALL, Darrell

Dec 7, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Science Fiction, South Australia, Thriller Fiction
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The Third Last Communique

A Psychological Thriller

Three people from totally different backgrounds with unique gifts, will come together in the most extraordinary of circumstances. Through tragedy and euphoria, these three individuals will discover mind blowing knowledge that inevitably will change the world as we know it, forever.

James an Australian family man, Haloke a female native American astronaut, and Nadeeka a little girl living in a small fishing village in Sri Lanka, venture into realms of unsettling but wondrous revelations.

The story ends as it begun, only in this instance it will occur at a different point in time and place.

About the Author

Living on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria with my wife Liz and having taken up writing only a handful of years ago I have discovered to my great joy the wonderful world of creating stories. I hope who ever may read this book will in some way escape into my vision of wonderment and intrigue of unadulterated realms of the imagination. Photography by Peter Lamont.