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PAISIO, Franco

Sep 16, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, New South Wales, Poetry, Sydney

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ISBN 978-1-923265-35-6
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Bone and Marrow-Deep

Bone and Marrow-Deep is a collection of mainly recent poems, taut, lyrical, and short. Dealing with the passing of time, loss of memory, and old age reveries. Poems, in their simplicity, exploring both the complexities and caprices of existence. Poems in search of clarity, in search of things indecipherable. Paisio shows once again in these brief verses, that even if he deems existence superfluous, and unjustifiable, he is enamoured with the magnificent, wondrous, unique, and unrepeatable adventure that life is.

About the Author

 

Franco Paisio was born in Milan in 1936. He is an artist and poet who studied painting, sculpture, and ceramics in Italy and Australia. He had numerous solo exhibitions both in Australia and Europe. His works are held in many national, corporate, and private collections. Franco has given numerous poetry readings, and from 1975 to 1985 was a contributing editor of “Aspect”, the now defunct Sydney-based art and literature magazine. He lives and works in contemplative solitude in Sydney, Australia.

WILLIAM, Curtis

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

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ISBN 978-1-923265-42-4
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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.

JUKE, Valerie

Jul 15, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Christian, Fiction \ novel, New South Wales

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ISBN 978-1-923214-02-06
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Two Doors

 

The secrets behind closed doors

Alongside their mother, the Reverend’s four adult children watch him as he preaches. But whose words is he preaching?

To the world, Minister Gallagher is a hard-working, caring community leader. But who is really caring?

Who does the hard work and who holds the hands of the members of the congregation in their times of need?

And whose hands are not being held?

His silent children’s yearnings betray
the expectations of their mother and the
congregation. Can they ever be revealed?

Will their secrets remain forever behind closed doors?

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About the Author

 

VALERIE JUKES was born on 29th March 1935 in the small town of Monmouth by the Monnow River
in Wales to where she lived out her childhood.

21 years later she was to marry the love of her life James Jukes on 19th August 1956 taking James’ last name as her own.

Valerie and James lived a fulfilling life starting their family in Wales and taking the brave move with their children to Australia. James and Valerie stuck to their vows and spent the rest of their lives together.

McKENZIE, Blake

Mar 19, 2024 | *Featured books, Australian, Childrens books, New South Wales

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Poocasso

The Artist Series

In a coastal town, meet Pablo, a mischevious boy spreading joy with his unconventional art – created with a twist!

As parents and young readers join the town’s quest to solve the mystery of Poocasso, they’ll discover a delightfully charming story supported by amazing imagery that’ll have the whole family laughing together!

PHELPS, Renata and Abi Andrews

Dec 15, 2023 | *Featured books, Animals \ pets, Art and illustration, Australian, Childrens books, Environment, New South Wales

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ISBN 978-1-923088-88-7
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If We Care We Can

A Story of How One Glider Helped Save a Forest

Acacia, a tiny Squirrel Glider, is rescued, raised and released by wildlife carers. When she learns that her new forest home is about to be logged, Acacia plans to save the forest by collaborating with the other animals and humans alike.

This story is uniquely illustrated through a series of collages, melding photos, drawings, scanned flora and other artefacts contributed by more than 25 artists and photographers. ‘If We Care We Can’ is part of a collaborative community effort to save Bungabbee Forest on the North Coast of NSW, Australia.

Contributor list

Talia Balzan – Humans, Man, Crowd scene

Melanie Barsony – Masked Owl

Claire Chatfield – Potoroos

Donna Crotty – Goanna , Banksia and photos of burnt forests.

Beki Davies – Python and Banksia

Peter Derrett – Studio photography

Talia Balzan – Humans, Man, Crowd scene of flowers and foliage from Bungabbee

Alice Deschilder – Flying Foxes

Emily Donohoe – Green Tree Frog – Pobblebonk Frog – Lyrebird, White Cockatoo

Amanda Doran – Antechinus, Birdwing Butterfly, Goanna, Pademelon, Nest Box, Psyllids and Lerps

Emmeline Eastwell – Squirrel Glider Family, Glider on Banksia, Glider Juvenile

Layla Flame – Feathertail Glider, Yellow footed Antechinus and Shorter Rainforest Ground-Beetle

Tamara Fogarty – Marbled Frogmouth

Gwendolyn Gray – Kookaburra and Rosella Flower

Kristy Hampson – Brushtail Possum

Natalie Herington – King Parrot and Lorikeet, Kookaburra, Magpie , Koalas, Wrens, Night sky

Phil Jarman – Photos of Bungabbee

Henrietta Mooney – Echidna and Forest Redgum tree – Forest Redgum foliage and flower – Yellow-bellied Gliders

Kerry Negus – Microbats in Hollow, Little Bentwing Bat – Habitat Tree and Trees with Hollows

Rachel Pierssene – Glossy-black Cockatoo, Glossy-black Cockatoo Pair

Dailan Pugh – Quoll

Oral Roberts – Goanna, Glider

Jennifer Unwin – Photos of Bungabbee

Rose Wadsworth – Eucalypt Flowers

Kim Warren – Sugar Glider and Little Lorikeet