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MARAN, S. Keshan

Dec 19, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Biography, Memoir

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Conversations We Didn’t Finish

 

A Father’s Reflections on Love, Letting go, and Growing up Together

A Father’s Memoir of Love, Distance, and the Words Left Unsaid

Some conversations don’t end. They simply go quiet. A hug that lingered. A question never asked. A phrase remembered years later with a whisper: “Plus one.”

Conversations We Didn’t Finish is a reflective memoir about love without control, presence without proximity, and fatherhood that continues even as roles change. Written with restraint and emotional honesty, it’s for fathers, men, and readers navigating distance, identity, and quiet reinvention.

For those who believe that meaning lives not in what’s said loudly, but in what’s held gently. This isn’t a story about fixing relationships. It’s about holding space for them.

About the Author

 

S. Keshan Maran is a father, mentor, and strategist whose work has spanned leadership development, business growth, and community-building across several countries. His approach has always centred on presence, curiosity, and the belief that love, especially the imperfect kind, can be a powerful teacher.

He wrote this memoir during a period of profound transition, reflection, and healing. It is not a record of events, but a record of becoming. of learning how to love, let go, and continue growing.

He currently lives between Aotearoa New Zealand and Southeast Asia, and continues to work quietly with individuals and organisations on purposedriven transformation.

VREDENBREGT, Rick

Dec 15, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Biography, Memoir, Sport

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ISBN 978-1-923523-13-5
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Stazza

 

The Football Career of Chris Stasinowsky

‘Stazza, The Football Career of Chris Stasinowsky; Mercurial Talent, Complex Soul’, is an in-depth analysis of an Australian rules football career that included time in Western Australia and South Australia at the peak of top-level competition Australia wide pre-VFL/AFL national league expansion.

Once sought after by Richmond, ‘Stazza’, as he was affectionately known, was an electrifying footballer during the halcyon days of the 1980’s. With comparisons to the potential and ability of an early Gary Ablett snr, Peter Bosustow and modern day stars such as Toby Greene, Dustin Martin and Patrick Dangerfield, in simple terms, Stasinowsky put bums on seats.

Described as “misunderstood” by his longest serving coach and mentor, WA football icon Mal Brown, ‘Stazza’ had the rare ability to rapidly turn a game with scintillating footy.

Biographical in parts, ‘Stazza’ seeks to not only highlight, celebrate and rekindle memories of the potential and brilliance that Stasinowsky displayed on-field, but also to enlighten the reader of the various character traits that shaped him, as described by family members, teammates, coaches and opponents. Interwoven throughout the 10 chapters are some of the dominant narratives surrounding football during a tumultuous period in the game, including controversial moments and changes to the football landscape. The book also respectfully touches on Stasinowsky’s undiagnosed, but posthumously recognised, mental anguish that plagued him and which eventually lead to his sad departure.

A comprehensive career analysis with statistics and a chronological game by game history, including commentary from the day, gives the appendix section a scrapbook feel.

Chris Stasinowsky was a shooting star who made a lasting impact during his short life, not only on those who knew and loved him, but on the football fan from the other side of the fence.

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About the Author

 

Rick Vredenbregt is a passionate student of the history of Western Australia’s oldest sporting competition – the West Australian Football League (WAFL). As the code of Australian Rules gradually evolved into a full-time, professional game, following the Victorian Football League’s (VFL) expansion in 1987, other major Australian state football league histories have slowly been pushed aside and almost forgotten. This is, as a direct consequence of the VFL’s 12-team transition into the 18-team Australian Football League (AFL) behemoth we have today, and one that continues exploring further growth. The resultant AFL focused saturation of the football media landscape has endangered other competitions histories and legacy preservation.

A keen sportsman, and a passionate supporter, observer and researcher of WA football history since the age of 9, Rick decided to do his bit in trying to keep bygone eras alive. In 2013, with a view to catering for what he believed to be a disappointing void in
the ever-growing social media space of preserving the WAFL’s 140-year history (at the time of writing), Rick attempted to fill some of that void by starting a social media platform called Lost WAFL on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and Substack. Unashamedly
inspired by Warren Duffy’s mega successful Lost Perth social media presence, popularity grew quickly with several thousand fellow WAFL lovers now enjoying Rick’s content from days gone by, when the WAFL was king of the state.

Rick has spent countless hours researching WAFL themes and ‘Stazza!!! Mercurial Talent, Complex Soul’, is his first book in a continued pursuit of publishing and promoting WAFL centric content that will hopefully safeguard some of the competitions rich history.

WINE, Del

Oct 14, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Memoir

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The Five Ways Theatre and Beyond

 

 

The Le Garde Twins’ Five Ways Theatre holds a special place in the Australian Country Music scene.

The Five Ways Theatre & Beyond goes further than documenting the building itself. Told from the witty and engaging perspective of a past employee and friend of the Le Garde Twins, this is a history of events witnessed and photographed in real-time, bringing to life memories of not only the theatre in its glory days, but also the artists who found their break performing within its walls.

After all, the Theatre was only a building. It’s the Artists and Characters who made it great.

JORGENSEN, Greg

Oct 3, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Biography, Memoir

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ISBN 978-1-923443-73-0
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Gweilo White Boy

 

A year in HongKong

This book shares the journey of a young Greg Jorgensen with scoliosis who, in the mid 70’s, with his family’s support, travelled solo to Hong Kong for corrective spinal surgery.

A 16-year-old spending a whole year in a completely different country and culture! This memoir recounts that adventure navigating a new world, figuring out the language, and all the memorable experiences along the way.

An explanation and thankyou

 

In Cantonese, “gweilo” (鬼佬) literally translates to “ghost man” and is a common slang term for foreigners, particularly Westerners. While it has a history of potentially being used in a derogatory way, its modern usage is often neutral or non-derogatory. Whether the term is offensive or not is debated, even among Cantonese speakers and Westerners.

Thank you for reading this somewhat autobiographical text on one part of my very lucky life!

Greg Jorgensen
July 2025
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LEE, Warwick

Sep 18, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Biography, History, Memoir, Military

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ISBN 978-1-923523-62-3
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Child of the Pacific

 

From the Empire to Independence, Through the Eyes of a Child

An insightful and unforgettable account of a young boy’s journey through family struggles, history, war and a nation’s aspiration to free itself from colonialism.

Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, was a contested island for nearly a century. Germany, UK, Japan and Australia each had interrupted periods of administration, influence and development of the island and region around it.

In 1975, Warwick witnessed the country’s shift into independence.

As a young boy, he watched the place he’d grown up in change for the better. For the first time, its people felt they could once again be at the forefront in determining their own destiny, and the excitement and optimism at such a prospect was almost tangible.

This one of a kind memoir is told through the memories and records of a boy who lived through one of the most major changes in PNG history, following him from his formative years to the country’s 50 year anniversary of independence.

About the Author

 

WARWICK LEE was born in Bougainville in 1955 and became an Australian citizen in 1965.

In 1966 Warwick was sent to Melbourne to continue his education. He completed degrees in Economics and Law from Monash University.

Instead of a legal career, he chose a corporate career path and relocated to Sydney, working for several companies including Exxon (Esso), Mitsubishi and National Australia Bank.

He is married with three children, four grandchildren and now lives in Brisbane.

Warwick maintains a keen interest in geopolitical matters and particularly relation to Pacific countries. Whilst he relocated from Bougainville many years ago, his interest in what was his birthplace has never left him.

WATERS, Lexie

Sep 12, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Memoir, Psychology \ Mental Health, Relationships

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ISBN 978-1-923589-17-9
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Rogue, Black Sheep or Ratbag

 

A memoir of survival, truth, and the courage to confront family cruelty

Every family has its darkness, this one was never hidden.

In this courageous and unflinching memoir, the author recounts a lifetime shaped by the volatile presence of her sister, Eva—a woman whose behaviour pushed the boundaries of psychological abuse. With traits that elude simple definition—psychopathic manipulation, narcissism, obsessive control—Eva’s actions left deep scars on those around her, particularly their mother.

Through writing, the author finds clarity, acceptance, and the ability to finally sleep at night.

This is her story—a deeply personal account of survival, truth-telling, and the power of speaking out.

From The Author

 

AS I WROTE IN my preface, expressing all these incidents on paper has relieved me emotionally. When I have told others that I am writing my memoir and given them a precis of its contents, mostly they have said that they had a black sheep in the family too. It seems to be that most families suffer a rogue in silence. But I felt I had to get it off my chest.

My brothers have been an enormous support to me all through my life and now when I have discussed certain incidents with them. I appreciate their help and thank them for their continued support.

I would also like to thank Sarah for encouraging me to share my story.

I repeat that incidents are not in chronological sequence but as they came into my mind and I felt I had to deal with them. It’s such a relief to not carry the trauma any longer.

Perhaps you would like to write your memoir and clear your emotional baggage. It has helped me so much. And maybe you can send me your story and I may be able to help you.

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Lexie Waters
2025