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WILDE, Diana

Aug 11, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Design, Memoir, Western Australia

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ISBN 978-1-922452-98-6
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I Don’t Wear Step-Ins Anymore.

A step-in or girdle was worn in the 50s and 60s to control the flab of a female body. Dianne escaped the control of a conservative and Christian middle class family in Sydney and sailed to England in 1968. On arrival, she disposed of her constrictive clothing and began living a swinging London life. A year later, and after a visit from her parents, she moved to a Swiss Village for 6 months. Finally, she travelled home overland by Sundowners bus from London to India in 1970.

This memoir is from letters documenting her overseas journey of discovery. In January 2012 aged 64, she re-read and transcribed at least 300 letters and aerogrammes, after being told by an older cousin, she had been adopted at birth. She re-discovered the controlling mother she couldn’t stand growing up, and even while bringing up a family of her own.

Her adoptive mother Ruby was the one who gave her back all the letters written to her, suggesting she may wish to write a book one day about her travels. This memoir is a homage to her, and also to her adoptive father George, who constantly encouraged her to take off the step-ins and try everything in life.

DUNCAN, Craig

Jul 24, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Health & Wellbeing, Memoir, New South Wales, Psychology \ Mental Health, Reference, Self-help \ Personal Development
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ISBN 978-1-922452-94-8
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Self Science 

A Study of You by You

AT THE PRINTER – COMING SOON 

One of the world’s leading performance scientists presents in simple terms some strategies to help you enhance your everyday life.

Dr Craig Duncan provides the basic concepts, the regimen and the vision for implementing the philosophy of “self-science”, a way of living that focuses on the importance of self-exploration and self-awareness as a pathway to a better life.

Using the knowledge gained from working alongside elite athletes in professional sport, and also from his personal experience, Dr Duncan has developed a system to help anyone who wants to reach their full potential.

This is about you becoming involved in the management of your life, rather than being a spectator.

WILCE, May

Jul 15, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Biography, Memoir, New South Wales, Philosophy
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ISBN 978-1-922337-59-7
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A Little Bit of the Past

Ivy May Wilce is also known as May, Mum, Ma ma, or Nanna, depending on who you talk to. She is a woman of incredible strength, respect, devotion, and compassion. As the wife of a Presbyterian minister (whose service extended over a 50 year period) May’s service to the Lord, His Church, and His people is inspiring. We are incredibly lucky that May has put pen to paper so that all those who love and admire her can treasure her recollections. This is a memoir put together for May’s family, although the stories and historical insights have and can be enjoyed broadly. As you read through you are sure to marvel at her incredible memory, her thoughtfulness in acknowledging the efforts of others, and the wonderfully full life that she and her husband Neville have lived.

JOHNS, Andrea

Jun 23, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Autobiography, Memoir, South Australia
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ISBN 978-1-922337-58-0
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ISBN 978-1-922629-09-8
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Like a Dandelion in the Wind

Andrea endured many hardships in her life while travelling around Australia with her lovable rascal of a father. She was taught cunningness, survival, love, gambling, hunting and fishing, unlike any education you get from sitting in a classroom. Taken out of school at 13, married at 16 and a mother at 17. War and a traumatic birth of her second child only made her stronger. Evacuated to London, she spent two harrowing years trying to return to her beloved Australia. Once back, she fought the biggest battle of her life, saving her children from an evil spirit.

Her limited education would not deter her from documenting her life’s journey.

These are her own words, based on her memories. Any reference to anyone passed or living is purely coincidental.

JOHNSTON, Martin

May 8, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Justice \ Law \ Crime, Melbourne, Memoir, Victoria
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ISBN 978-1-922337-82-5
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Toxic Wounds

As a government forest fire fighter over summer, he eventually ends up as a gun toting convoy manager in war torn Afghanistan. After the war, continues as a mercenary in South East Asia for a fi rm with shadowy links to the CIA when he meets the company adjudicator, falls in love, marries for the 3rd time, gives up the days as a mercenary and returns home.

He soon becomes mortally ill, a legacy from the mysterious toxic smoke of war. His new wife nurses him back to health forming an unbreakable bond and together hatch a plan to rescue his young daughter from a certain future of treachery and prostitution by a previous marriage to a notorious Thai mamasan that’s taken all he has.