NEWNHAM, Janice

ISBN 978-1-922527-72-1
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From the Inside

The first nine weeks of the Black Summer fires in the Upper Murray

A personal view of the impact of the 2019/20 Green Valley Bushfire on the Newnhams’ home, family, and community from inside the fire zone in Walwa, Upper Murray, Australia.

Isolated from friends and family and enmeshed in the fight to defend her family’s farm from the 2019/2020 Black Summer fires, Janice Newnham was moved to document and communicate the situation to the outside world via Facebook posts.

It started as a need to quickly reassure worried friends and family, but soon became a mental health exercise, a necessity to unload by uploading to Facebook!

This book represents the first nine weeks of an ongoing story of the impact of bushfire disaster on a small rural community and is representative of many Australian farmers and rural communities during an unprecedented bushfire season: The Black Summer.

ISBN 978-1-922890-57-3
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White Lies

Where there is smoke

Based on a true story, White Lies (Where there is smoke…) is set in ‘God’s Own Country’, in Walwa, Northeast Victoria.

A fiery car wreck extinguishes the life of Raymond (Dickie) White’s devoted wife and catapults him to the attention of enthusiastic police investigators and newspaper journalists and simultaneously reignites the local rumour mill.

Is he the victim of small-town gossip, ultimately hounded to death by misinterpretations of his actions? Or is he a cunning, scheming individual who manipulates situations and takes advantage of innocents to achieve his ambition of owning his own farm?

His plans unravel as his web of lies is unpicked by the persistent, dedicated investigations of police utilising innovative forensic techniques and insightful deductions. As the net closes around him, he is left with only one option for escape.

Janice Newnham author

About the Author

Janice Newnham is a veterinarian by profession, a farmer by passion and is easily distracted by cows, dogs, family and the environment! She is a time-poor would-be creative with ambitions to indulge in her love of writing, art, and photography to capture images and stories of her environment, family and community. Imbued with a strong community spirit, she advocates for- and supports her community by serving and supporting several community organisations. Family is her number one priority, and she is devoted to her husband, Crundle (Robert), and their growing family of two sons, Connor and Sasha, (step-) daughter Bianca and their partners and children. The Newnhams own a small piece of paradise in Walwa in the Upper Murray and breed Angus cattle.

 

TAVENOR, Roy

ISBN 978-1-922452-62-7
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Old Retail, New Retail, WTF?

Humans were born to shop.

That’s why retailing became the biggest industry globally.

Today, retailing is an industry in crisis, undergoing massive disruption from online marketplaces like Amazon and Alibaba. Asia is emerging as a retail powerhouse, yet most retailers are focused on the US, UK and Europe.

7 billion shoppers don’t see things that way, but retailers are full of doom and gloom?
What is going to happen to their industry?

Roy Tavenor asks the same question – with a bit of twist.

WTF – What’s The Future of retail.

This is a book written by a realist, rather than a futurist, and draws on nearly 50 years of experience, learning from the past, to better understand the future.

For retailers and shoppers alike, there is good news.

Retail is not dying – just changing.

FRIEND, Norris

ISBN 978-1-922527-55-4
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Trapped

A book of Survival and Freedom

COMING SOON

In this little volume, Friend draws on his courage and talks about a grim father-son relationship, sexuality, differences and the dangers of trying to conform, religion and nervous breakdowns – all difficult topics, and set in a very different time from now.

“My mission,” he says, “is to share my experiences, in the hope I can save others from the pitfalls.”

Norris Friend tells his story with honesty, respect, gentleness and care, at times with reverence, and never with anger or from ego. He knows the pain of emotional abuse and worse, but he stands back from the memories to stress that forgiveness is paramount. He shares very private and painful experiences with no talk of redress or vengeance, no seeking of sympathy, but the aim of offering insight, because he has learned that healing occurs if you understand why things happened.

Simple, honest and brief, this book is so much more accessible and refreshing than long-winded self-help manuals. For me, the insights it offers are spot on. – Lisa Lark, editor

PHILBRICK, Kamiera & Murray

ISBN 978-1-922527-76-9
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The Grimy Captain Greenbeard

Illustrated by Wagner Paula

Oops! A Mistake!

Someone forgot to write the fi nal (last) ending to this exciting story!

Who can help?
YOU!
That’s Who!
YeS! Here’s YOUR chance to become an author.

Go on! You can do it!

Pencil / pen in hand?

We’ve supplied the pages at back of book!

Captain Greenbeard’s future
is in YOUR hands!
It’s UP TO YOU

FERNANDO, Pushpa

ISBN 978-1-922527-94-3 PAPERBACK

Up With Trees

The author is Srilankan born, a graduate of the University of Ceylon who had a long career in Banking.

She is currently domiciled in Australia. After migrating, she changed her vocation to teaching, having obtained a Bachelor of Teaching degree in Early childhood Education from the University of Auckland.

The book illustrates the need to teach children to learn, to love and respect Nature, take care of it, and the importance of sustainable practice of growing more trees and about cultural diversity.

BIHAMBA, Immaculate

ISBN 978-1-922452-81-8 PAPERBACK

Everywhere Umbrella

From Congo to Australia (and everywhere in between) comes a testimony of God’s everlasting love, grace and guardianship.

Immaculate’s very existence was challenged from the day she was conceived.

A baby girl born into the Democratic Republic of the Congo, disappointment surrounded her birth despite many attempts to terminate.

Immaculate is a women who perhaps should not have survived. This book recounts the many events that played against her and the divine intervention that persistently saved her.

God is Immaculate’s Everywhere Umberella.