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ROBIN, Giselle

Mar 4, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Self-help \ Personal Development

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ISBN 978-1-923645-43-1
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We Can Do Better

 

Psychiatry and Me

We are living in a pandemic of ‘mental illness’. Hospitals are overfilled, and people a are suffering or even dying from the side effects of medication. Psychiatry is not interested in finding the cause of the so-called illnesses, but their medication offers neither prevention nor cure.

IT LOOKS LIKE THERE IS NO HOPE ON THE HORIZON, BUT THERE IS ANOTHER WAY.

Through her research and own experiences with ‘mental illness’, Giselle Jane Robin explores the DNA aspect that is the root cause of many mental illnesses (those not caused by brain damage through accidents), how they can be found in a DNA test and subsequently treated with supplements or alternative remedies.

If you are unsatisfied with your treatment and are looking for an answer to your own ‘mental illness’, this book can help lead you to a better way of life.

About the Author

 

Giselle Jane Robin has lived a colourful life. From a young age, she was always moving, and found her life take her from WWII Hamburg/Germany all the way to Australia. This movement led to Giselle having several professions, from government worker to founder of an organic winery. Her diagnosis with the mental illness ‘Bipolar’ was the cause of her restless life.

The treatment of her ‘illness’ and her passion for justice and research led Giselle to write this book. Her hope is to give those who suffer the same fate the information about what is really happening in Psychiatry and the reassurance that there is a way out.

Now living in Aldinga, South Australia, Giselle is engaged in painting, puzzles, reading and attending the theatre.

HEYES, Tonya

Mar 2, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Biography, Memoir

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Metal Glass and Miracles

In one moment everything changed. When a sudden car accident turned my world upside down, I went from treating patients to becoming one. That shift – humbling, painful, and deeply human – became the driving force for this book.

As a medical professional, I spent years helping others through their most vulnerable moments. I never imagined I would one day be in their place, forced onto my own long road of recovery after a life-changing accident. This book blends my lived experience with the inner wisdom, empathy, deep compassion, understanding and resilience that have guided me throughout my life and my work, offering practical strategies, gentle reflections, and healing tools for anyone facing trauma.

My story takes you through the raw moments of the good and the bad – the tears, the pain, the grief of losing the life I had worked so hard to build, the loss of self, and the reality of how it feels to survive a horrific accident and slowly find your way back to who you are. I share the tools that helped me rise again, shaped by my experience of trauma and my professional background.

If you are moving through the darkness of trauma, may my story guide, comfort and empower you. Even in the hardest moments, you are not alone. This book offers my lived experience, practical tools and emotional guidance. It is your companion as you rebuild your life one step at a time. Healing is possible, even when the path feels impossible. You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only option

REID, Dianne

Feb 17, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Biography

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ISBN 978-1-923645-35-6
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Humming The Bones

 

Dance as an act of survival

Walking the River of Loss, and Finding the Body Again.

Humming the bones charts the life of Australian dance and video artist Dianne Reid as she navigates grief and transition. Uniquely structured, shift ing between prose and poetry, past and present, Reid interweaves contemporary dance history with her personal journey and a present-day contemplative walking practice.

Written over the two years following her mother’s death, the work drops the reader into visceral description, bringing the visual to life through the choreography of the written word.

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DIANNE REID IS A PERFORMER, CHOREOGRAPHER, camera operator, video editor and educator. She was a founding member of Outlet Dance in Adelaide (1987–89) and a member of Danceworks from 1990–95. From 2004-2006 she was Artistic Director of Dancehouse, and she was a lecturer in contemporary dance and dance video at Deakin University (1996–2018). Her site-specific solo work Cabin Fever won Adelaide Fringe weekly awards for Best Dance in 2019, 2020 and 2024. The documentary Nothing But Bones In The Way won the Best Dance Film award at the ReelHeART International Film and Screenplay Festival. Dianne studied creative writing in her Communication Studies degree, winning a Teesdale-Smith Award for playwriting. She has published a number of journal papers and book chapters relating to the performing arts and her practice as a dance artist and was a reviewer for Fringe Review UK. She completed a PhD in screendance and performance improvisation in 2016 which saw the publication of several journal articles in The International Journal of Screendance and Brolga.

This is Dianne’s first book.

CLAESSEN, Rohan

Feb 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.

AY, Nicole

Jan 5, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Memoir

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ISBN 978-1-923645-52-3
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Life Wanderer

 

Life is short, but sometimes life can be dreadfully long.

One afternoon, Xing revealed to me his decision to commit suicide. “I’m not going to live for much longer, you know. The hospital wants me admitted full time and the school has been telling me to take an indefinite medical leave, but I don’t want to be trapped in a hospital for the remainder of my time. It’s too hard on my parents too and to what end?”

Xing committed suicide two months later, but we didn’t waste a single moment before he passed.

I think back on our last days together sometimes. I never thought the length of a life mattered as much when compared with the quality of it.

SMITH, John H

Dec 22, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Biography, Family History

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A Most Chequered Career

 

Samuel Francis Smith 1811-1899

The story of a man whose forgotten legacy and “chequered career” reveal a complex and intriguing life in early Australian history.

Because of ignorance or shame, Samuel Francis Smith’s name and infuence in the family he pioneered in Australia was not mentioned in the present generation. Thanks to his obituarist, who quipped he had “a most chequered career” the search to discover the what that meant brought to light a complex and intriguing life. This book tells Samuel’s story.

“A Most Chequered Career: Samuel Francis Smith 1811-1889 is an unusually moving and highly readable work of Australian history. It’s both a detective story and a triumph of compassion for a flawed individual, off ering profound insights into the lives of Australian colonists in the mid-nineteenth century. With a steady, compassionate gaze, John Smith breathes life into his errant great-great grandfather, reminding us that even our most flawed ancestors deserve to be honored.”
DR KAI JENSEN

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About the Author

 

John H Smith, MA, PhD, ThM, is a writer and retired Uniting Church Minister who served in Western Australia (1974– 2000) and Mark the Evangelist, North Melbourne, Victoria 2000-2013.

He has published on WA Church History, the Church’s involvement in War, Monastic history, spirituality and theology, and contributed regularly to the North and West Melbourne News.