HOGG, Gavin

ISBN 978-1-922803-03-0
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Hoggie

GIFTED GAVIN HOGG WAS NOT GIFTED BY CIRCUMSTANCE.

Hoggie takes you on the journey of Gavin’s rollercoaster life. In this book, Hoggie recounts how he became a top country cricketer, had his world upturned by severe depression and the resultant alcohol addiction, and then finally recovered to build a new wine business in Coonawarra.

He now faces his greatest challenge.

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About the Author

Gavin, or ‘Hoggie’ as he was affectionately known, started life in a dirt-floored shack on a Soldier Settlement block. He went on to become one of Australia’s most award winning winemakers, taking home some of Australia’s top wine trophies, including the revered Jimmy Watson.

HYDE, Deborah

ISBN 978-0-992339-27-2
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End of the Road

Becoming a Mallee Wife

At School we learnt about the mallee country in our lessons and I remember disctinctly thinking, “Why would anyone want to live up there?” It wasn’t portrayed in a very good light and seemed to my impressionable young mind the last place on earth one would want to live or farm in. I always said I would never live too far away from the sea anyway.

I ended up doing just that!

This book is an intimate slice of the history of living in the Mallee District. Deborah Hyde shares her real-life experiences with enthusiasm and humour; a true Australian gem!

The Author

Deborah Hyde is an author from South
Australia. Her first book,The End of the Road, is an intimate and humorous slice of living in the Mallee District from 1973 – 1989. Deborah now lives beach side with her husband, but her farming background has influenced her work as an author.

JAMIESON, Dean

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.

VENZIDIS, Tom

ISBN 978-0-9876317-9-4
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Master Class in Advanced Driving Skills

 

The Ultimate Driving Companion For Learners and Enthusiasts

The pages of this book paint a picture of our driving future. Written in the interest of public safety, Master Class in Advanced Driving Skills is a foundation for the most qualified and safest drivers.

Most of what is known about advanced driving skills today, began decades ago. The untold story of the great contribution that 1920s Grand Prix racing and two of its heroic drivers made to road safety are introduced here. Their contribution underpins most of this book.

The information in this manual is instruction in driving at a high standard. On learning and mastering these advanced skills, you will be assured of fully conscious, sentient driving in whatever type of motor vehicle you drive. Easy
to understand, it is a precious opportunity for learners and licensees who want to be better, safer drivers.

STRATTON-SMITH, Edward

BEAUTIFUL PROFESSIONAL TYPESETTING

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Edward Stratton Smith self published author book typesetting

Edward Stratton Smith self published author book typesetting

Edward Stratton Smith self published author book typesetting

ISBN 978-1-922337-82-5
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Traffic Offences in South Australia

Traffic offences are the most expiated, and prosecuted of any category of offences in South Australia. Arguably no other area of the law so directly engages the community.

Traffic Offences in South Australia offers a concise and comprehensive account of the law regulating drivers and the driving of motor vehicles.
Its coverage extends from drivers licences and demerit points, to driving offences, including driving whilst disqualified, drink and drug driving, and the more significant Australian Road Rules. On each it identifies the relevant Supreme Court cases and the principles decisive to their resolution. The book also identifies issue of procedure, proof and defence at trial drawn from the author’s substantial practical experience in this area.

Organised by subject topic the book serves both lawyers, police prosecutors and the community. Its easy and readable style is designed to offer ready insight and provide quick answers to those faced with questions in this otherwise complex area of the law.

OTTWAY, Meredith

ISBN 978-1-922452-36-8 PAPERBACK

Baton of Courage

All profits go to eye surgery research

GORDON HUGHES, A BLIND VIOLINIST, LOSES HIS SIGHT IN HIS MID TEENS DUE TO A TRAGIC ACCIDENT.

Born in Moonta in 1896 to a family of fishermen, Gordon shows an early talent for music, playing both the violin and pedal-organ with an ambition to become an orchestral conductor, contrary to his father’s wishes.

After his loss of sight Gordon experiences disappointment, hardship, romance and eventually gains successes and wisdom from the multiple characters he meets and works with along the way.

Gordon spends his earlier teenage years as a student attending the ‘The School for the Blind, Deaf and Dumb’ founded in 1874 at Brighton, South Australia, and later to be known as Townsend House, before then attending the ‘Blind School’ at North Adelaide where he learns basket weaving, the usual occupation for the unsighted in those times.

On leaving boarding school, Gordon has to now face the hardships of not only being unsighted, but of finding suitable accommodation and fending for himself in a sometimes harsh world.