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RANKINE, Warren

Jun 30, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Australian, Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, South Australia

Fifteen Feet Tall by Warren Rankine
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Fifteen Feet Tall

From abandonment to belonging, an incredible life story of survival, identity and hope

Abandoned into an orphanage in the middle of the night, a two-year-old boy became File #61249600—the official identity of a child marked by institutionalisation, extreme displacement, rejection, challenge, failure, resilience, persistence, and, ultimately, self-realisation.

Set against the backdrop and soundtrack of suburban South Australia, this is a story filled with colourful characters, misadventure, heartbreak, and tragedy—culminating in the remarkable success of a man who refused to give up on himself when so many others had.

Fast-paced and deeply engaging, with rare insight drawn from his own state department file, Warren Rankine shares his life’s journey with vulnerability, humour, and raw, unflinching reflection.

Others may have put him on a path. Ultimately, he forged his own.

BONFIELD, Niki

Jun 12, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Memoir, Poetry, Self-help \ Personal Development

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Fragmented Yet Whole

 

Embracing Neurodivergence, healing and self-dicovery

“Life isn’t meant to be easy.”

This poetic and reflective memoir traces the journey of a woman who spent much of her life feeling different, overwhelmed, and unseen, until a late autism diagnosis reframed everything. Through raw recollections, quiet reckonings, and deeply human moments, Niki invites readers into the rich, complex inner world she once tried to hide.

From childhood confusion to a therapy experience that fractured trust, from mental health struggles to finding her voice as a therapist, this is a story of what it means to come home to yourself, slowly and painfully, but with grace. Writing became part of healing. So did the truth.

For those who feel too much, question too often, and wonder if they’re the only ones—this book is for you. You’re not alone. You’re not broken. And healing is still possible.

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NIKI IS A counsellor and art therapist with a late autism diagnosis, whose lived experience deeply informs her practice. After hitting rock bottom, writing became a way to externalise the internal, a gentle reckoning with pain, identity, and healing.

Her memoir is a reflective and poetic offering born from that process, written for those who feel deeply, question often, and carry quiet hurts.

Passionate about inclusive support for neurodivergent individuals and trauma-informed care, she feels deeply honoured to sit beside others as they make sense of their own stories. Creativity, authenticity, and nature ground her life and work. She lives in the hills, surrounded by trees and stillness.

PITERMAN, Leon

May 21, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Memoir, Short Story Collection

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Identity

A Book Of Short Stories

We are commonly asked for proof of identity as if a number, date of birth, photo, or even fingerprint defines who we are. While these parameters are useful for security purposes, they do little to understand our background our nature, our behaviour, our values, nor how we might respond to unanticipated challenges.

In this book of 14 short stories, Leon examines the nature of value-based identity. Each story demonstrates individual responses to a variety of changing circumstances, including migration, career projection, sexuality, homelessness, retirement, and death.

Many of these short stories are based on the author’s real (albeit modified) encounters.

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LEON PITERMAN AM is Emeritus Professor of General Practice at Monash University, He is the Foundation Head of the School of Primary Health Care, and past Pro-Vice Chancellor of Monash’s Berwick and Frankston campuses (2010-2016).

He has published widely on clinical and educational issues related to general practice with particular interest in mental health and chronic disease.. He has over 160 publications in refereed journals and co-authored the text General Practice Psychiatry which has been translated into Italian and Chinese. He is the author of three additional books There is a lot of this going around. A GP’s Odyssey, Living in COVID times and My past is longer than my future. A memoir.

In June 2006, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to family medicine through distance education for doctors in remote areas, to research and student training, and to international education.

CRIDLAND, David

May 21, 2025 | Australian, Autobiography, Biography, Health & Wellbeing, Memoir, Self-help \ Personal Development

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Finding Total Contentment

 

Becoming An Azure Warrior

This is my five books in one and it’s all revised and improved. I started writing in 1999 in Gaol I had attempted armed robbery with the intention of trying to save the world from global warming. I was found not guilty by reason of mental illness and that illness made me creative and I did time writing rhyme as I say. If you like poetry you’ll love my poems they’re well written and quite uplifting. This book can help with weight loss, addiction and mental health. It is written from a lived experience of a long slow recovery to sanity, spending 20 years as a mental health forensic patient overcoming bipolar, a chronic addiction and losing weight. In my last breach purely for personal use of cannabis I spent over 9 years in institutions without access to the community but I recovered with my resilience.

In 1999 I used the 9-Pointed Star on the cover of my first attempt at writing a book. Years later I found out that the 9-pointed star had also turned up in crop circles in 1999 when I first began using this powerful symbol. Probably the first people to use this symbol were the ancient Egyptians. I heard a voice one night say you have earned your star, a week later a friend said she could
see it above my head in my aura, I felt very content for a month or two. I was told when learning Rei-ki that it is an ascension symbol in the Baha’i faith the number nine represents perfection.

I call contentment the ultimate cure and I say state of mind is everything. I usually eat just one meal a day and don’t hunger that much anymore. Buddhist monks have been practising this life style for millennia, it is good for cell health, weight loss and fasting can be enlightening. You can find Total Contentment here and there it is a peaceful feeling not needing much and being happy and content in the moment. This book can raise your vibration and help you find enlightenment no matter what level you are at. It can take you from a rock bottom to a supreme high and you can go from being a sinner to being Saint like.

Is our true God just the Sun in the sky the light which sustains us? Is our higher power just our higher self? Are we more open to this energy when we are doing good? Are the Gods and prophets just master’s as such people who have achieved a high level of consciousness and you can find Total Contentment…

PIKE, Arthur

May 19, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Autobiography, Biography, Family History, Memoir

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Lessons Learned

 

Born in 1928, Arthur Pike’s life has been one of adventure, resilience, and deep family bonds. From an early childhood shaped by the Great Depression, his family sought refuge in Tahiti before settling on Tasmania’s remote Flinders and Partridge Islands. There, without electricity, they lived off the land and sea, forging an unbreakable connection with nature and each other.

As the world hurtled toward war, Arthur’s life took unexpected turns—from leaving school early to work with a furniture maker, to following his passion for the sea and becoming a fisherman. Alongside his brothers, he braved the waters off Tasmania, navigating storms, rescues, and the evolution of an industry he loved. He built boats, built a life, and built a family—ten children, twenty-two grandchildren, and twentytwo great-grandchildren—all part of his remarkable journey.

Through heartwarming and harrowing stories, Lessons Learned paints a vivid portrait of a man who adapted to change while holding fast to the values of hard work, perseverance, and love for family. Rich with wisdom, humor, and nostalgia, this memoir is a celebration of a life well lived and a reminder of the lessons we gather along the way.

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KOVACS, Frank

May 15, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Australian, Biography, Memoir, Military, Psychology \ Mental Health, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government, South Australia

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Invisible Scars Somalia

 

A true story of an Australian soldier living with the effects of PTSD

Africa, 1984: Al-Shabaab militants succeeded in smuggling weapons and equipment into Somalia from Ethiopia, unimpeded. The US President Ronald Reagan authorised a shadow team of international soldiers to spy on the movement of rebels and arms fl owing into Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital.

An Australian Regular Army soldier, together with two British military personnel, seconded by the US to join a CIA special agent and an Ethiopian female warrior to infi ltrate to Luuq, a rural town and staging area for Al-Shabaab rebels in Central Somalia, on a clandestine mission. Their call sign was ‘Delta One.’ Their secret and urgent mission was to observe the movement of rebel forces, their equipment, and ammunition, then report back directly to Langley. During the mission, the team needed to cover their own tracks in case the proverbial hit the fan.

Staying one step ahead of the rebels was easy, whilst racing against the clock, until the team wound up in a horrendous ambush against superior rebel forces.

For a nation, unaware of the effects combat has on its soldiers, life for the Australian soldier returning from Somalia became harder after discharge, as he battled the complexities of PTSD and alcoholism in civvy street. Haunted by the nightmares of his time in Africa and racked by guilt from driving his wife and family away. He discovers help at the Repatriation General Hospital, Psychiatric Ward 17, in Adelaide, South Australia.

However, there was another enemy at play. The lure of Soldier of Fortune work would set him in action again