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FIGG, Marcia

Jan 27, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Autobiography, Memoir, South Australia

Author David Alomes' new book The death of Violence
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ISBN 978-0-648490-53-1
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The Battle Within: Chapter One

In Aukland, 1974, a baby girl is handed out of a hospital window to an old man in a taxi. Her name is Marcia, not a Maori name like her sister’s, which often made her wonder. But then, there were to be many more occasions that made Marcia wonder.

Based on the first thirteen years of Figg’s life, The Battle Within is an evocative collection of memories. Reflecting on the events that shaped her, Figg produces immersive moments-in-time, balancing the innocence and lightheartedness of a child with the harshness of society.

“Strikingly deft in its tale, the piece has the opportunity to grab the reader by the scruff of the neck and force them to listen, such is its sadness and portrayal of familiar abuse in a hermetically recognisable environment. Still, there are fine words, crafted with care as the storm settles down and courage resurges once more. Memorable.”
– Austin Macauley Publishers

 

GUNASEKERA, Mohini Indira

Jan 21, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Autobiography, Melbourne, Victoria

Mohini Indira Gunasekera author
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ISBN 978-1-922527-06-6
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An Inconsequential Journey

Mohini Indira Gunasekera AM is an Honours Graduate from University of London, Barrister-at-Law Lincolns Inn UK, a Retired Barrister NSW, retired solicitor NSW. Born in Unawatuna, a village in Sri Lanka, she did her primary and secondary schooling in Sri Lanka. She graduated from the London University with an Honours degree in Economics, as an external student. Travelling to London with her husband she worked for a while, and later, she was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn.

Returning to Sri Lanka she practiced as an Advocate for a while.

She joined the Ministry of Justice as Assistant Secretary where she was in charge of Conciliation Boards, until she left to join her husband in Australia. She has contributed Articles on various topics to a newsletter called ”Thora Thuru” catering to Australians of Sri Lankan origin.

She has assisted numerous charitable organisations to set up in Australia. She is a member of WIN Women’s Interfaith Network based in Sydney and meeting at Parliament NSW, as well as WCRP World Conference of Religions for Peace, also meeting at Parliament NSW. She has two sons: Chanaka, who is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and one time Lawyer an Associate at Dawson Waldron – now Ashhurst Sydney; and Hasantha, who is Associate Professor Sydney University as well as Consultant Paediatrician Westmead Childrens’ Hospital.

She founded the University Buddhist Education Foundation with the objective of promoting Buddhist studies at Tertiary level.

Now in retirement, she enjoys reading, travel, sports, and the Theater.

In retirement she is actively engaged with many social groups and travel groups, as well as pursuing her other interests, Tennis and Bridge.

CUNNINGHAM, Terry

Jan 20, 2021 | *Featured books, *listed, Autobiography, Melbourne, Victoria
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ISBN 978-1-922527-27-1
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Power House & Mary Kathleen

The challenges and experiences which shaped my life.

My first book ‘Black Tea & Hay Dust’ was published in 2008 and represented the formative years of my life from age 3 to 18 years. Foreshadowed in this book two more books were proposed to complete a trilogy of my life up to and including retirement. However I have now decided to combine the second book ‘Power House’ with the third book ‘Mary Kathleen’ in a single book titled ‘Power House and Mary Kathleen’. This book covers the remainder of my life up to retirement and is divided into two parts:

Part 1 covers the period when I left home to continue my education in the city of Melbourne where I completed a Civil Engineering Diploma, courted, married and began a family life and a working career.

Part 2 covers my working career which initially was very difficult but blossomed later after a lucky break sent my family and me to far North West Queensland to a place called Mary Kathleen. This move changed our lives forever with some very big consequences.

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Terry Cunningham grew up on a dairy farm and later graduated in civil engineering at Swinburne College in Hawthorn, Melbourne. His career spanned 45 years where he spent time working throughout Australia and overseas in the Middle East, Montreal, Borneo, New Guinea, New Caledonia and Guinea. His autobiography covers an intriguing career with lifetime experiences including all the dramas, fears, hopes, disappointments, joys and achievements along the way. The anecdotes and life episodes are many and varied, making this autobiography a real ‘page turner’.

Terry retired in 2013 at age 67. Together with wife Christina he experienced cruises to the Nordic countries and Asia, also visiting China and the UK. His main hobbies include writing, pencil sketching and gardening.

 

MCRAE, John

Oct 14, 2020 | *Featured books, *listed, Autobiography, New South Wales

Jeffrey's Beach Box by self-published author Noni Bousfield
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ISBN 978-1-922452-50-4 PAPERBACK

Reminisces

These recollections of a lad growing up at the end of the second millennium on a farm near a small Upper Hunter Valley town in New South Wales, Australia, recreate a glimpse of the way we were not so very long ago.

The tale tells of surviving illness and abuse in sometimes barefoot scarcity, yet with sufficient nurture, nourishment, new things – and hand-me-downs – to inspire feelings of wealth. There was a richness of family and friends, and foes enough to keep life interesting. This heart-warming yarn keeps the reader entertained, yet might challenge your views on public issues regarding people, prejudice and politics. It may even encourage you to think squarely.

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NASSIF, Fred

Sep 14, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Autobiography, Christian, New South Wales

fred nassif cover higher power book
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ISBN 978-1-922452-1

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Higher Power

ONE MAN’S STORY OF OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF THE WORLD THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD

Growing up independent and the youngest of three siblings, I felt protected. Life was good, I had great friends, family and school. But little by little, things began to change in and out of home. As a child, I reached out and had experiences – an amazing touch from above, a spiritual encounter with our Almighty. But the mistake of straying saw me slide down as far as you can go. With the love and care of my amazing mother who never gave up on me, whose love was too much to repay, and the support of my fiance, Chantal, and her prayers, patience and love, I was taught that I was not washed up yet.As mum’s health deteriorated, a promise I made to her was starting to be fulfilled. Higher Power is exactly what I had to rediscover to show Mum that her prayers would come true. Watch and see how I overcame life’s ugliest battles to show my hero that I had one last fight in me.

JAMIESON, Dean

Jul 8, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Autobiography, South Australia
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ISBN 978-1-922337-60-3
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They Called Me Lightning

They called me Lightning is the story of Dean Jamieson. Born in Adelaide in 1940, Dean left school at sixteen to chase a childhood dream of becoming a real-life cowboy.

This is the story about a young teenage boy who decides to leave Urrbrae High School in Adelaide and begin a new life working on an outback station. From stepping off the Old Ghan at Abminga rail siding in the middle of the night, to living off the land with Aboriginal people in the Simpson Desert, to mustering cattle on foot, to chasing brumbies along the Birdsville Track, to how he earned his nickname “Lightning”; Dean recounts these and other entertaining stories about early sexual encounters, drought, isolation and near-death experiences.

Told in Dean’s own words, They called me Lightning describes tales of fear, adventure, survival and growing up whilst working on outback stations in South Australia and the Northern Territory in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

About the Author

DEAN W. JAMIESON was born in Adelaide in 1940 and worked in outback stations in the Northern Territory and South Australia as a teenager and in his early 20s. Now in his late seventies, Dean lives in Victor Harbor, South Australia with his wife Jennifer. They called me Lightning is his first book.