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ROBERTS, Phil

Jul 25, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Family History, Fiction \ Novel, Relationships

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The Loss We Leave Behind

Burdened by personal tragedy and estranged from his grieving partner Fae, London-based architect Boyd Petersen has lost sight of his purpose and dreams. When an echo from his abandoned, secret past takes him back home to Australia, he is confronted by a series of shocking revelations that challenge his beliefs about the past and hopes for the future.

About the Author

 

Phil Roberts was born in Kenya and has lived and worked in various places throughout Australia. He began writing poetry and short stories in the 2000s and contributed to the former publications Yellow Moon and Dissent. The Loss We Leave Behind is his first novel. It emerged from his studies in creative writing and draws on a lifetime of personal impressions and the ideas that shape our world.

Phil is the author of and contributor to many scientific and interpretive documents. Apart from tending a large garden near Hobart, his current interests lie in investigating the shared mysteries of human experience and how they can be expressed through fiction and poetic forms.

HUGHES, Glen

Jul 25, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Poetry, South Australia

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Down Under

 

Poems from the Australian Bush

The author’s reflections of early life experiences growing up on an isolated sheep and cattle station known as Muloorina, which lies adjacent to Lake Eyre and the Tirari Desert, all stories conveyed in verse as Bush Poetry.

A companion to Campfire Memories and Happy Campfires.

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It is with heartfelt pride that I present my third offering of Bush Verse, Down Under for your appreciation.

Topics are many and varied, mostly based on life experiences of topical conversation around numerous Campfires, crisscrossing the desert, touching on history, weather events and characters met along the way.

I have a deep respect for this part of the world, (The Lake Eyre Basin) that I’ve been lucky enough to enjoy for just a blink in time, and am now grateful to share my backyard, to my many readers and followers, expressing my thoughts on a life well lived, narrated in rhyme.

For those of you who wish to experience Australia’s greatest inland lake system, I encourage you to immerse yourselves in this timeless landscape to appreciate the aura that consumes your senses from this natural world of wonder!

I penned Ancient Scapes for your appreciation of my feelings, captured within the heart of the Lake, that I’ve been lucky enough to experience.

WALLACE, Elizabeth

Jul 18, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Business, Education Studies & Teaching, Handbook, Reference, Self-help \ Personal Development

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Groundwork

 

Laying the foundation for career success

Whether you are simply curious about different career pathways, currently choosing your subjects for Years 11 and 12, or preparing to enter the workforce soon, this book was written for you.

We know it can be overwhelming to think about the working world out there, but the good news is, there are practical tools, useful resources and knowledgeable people to help you navigate your first move with confidence and optimism.

You might not know what you want to do as a career just yet, but rest assured, you have skills and talents that are of value to the world. No exceptions. We’re here to help you discover what those are, and start planning for a working life that will best suit you

By reading this book and undertaking some self-exploration as you go along, you are laying the groundwork for the first step in your career-planning journey.

About the Author

 

Dr Elizabeth Wallace is an artist, designer and writer. She was awarded her BDes from UNSW Art and Design, MRes from Glasgow School of Art, and PhD (Art) from RMIT.

She has worked in the fields of environment and interior design, design management and art strategy. She maintains her own creative studio practice and lives in Sydney, Australia.

WYTHES, Greg

Jul 15, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Music, Psychology \ Mental Health, Relationships, Teen Fiction

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Tim’s Dance Mix

 

A mixtape of music, mistakes and ordinary mysteries

The year is 1990 and Tim has just turned 16. He lives in a coastal city south of Sydney and his life is about to change profoundly as he begins to make the first transitions from boyhood to manhood.

This growth is accompanied by confusion and some trauma, – physical, emotional and psychological – especially in his early attempts to meet and connect with girls.

It’s also marked by his development as a musician, and the recognition of this talent by his school music teacher, who quietly mentors him and provides the opportunity for him to join the school’s only rock band.

But nothing goes smoothly in the early stages as he forges the beginnings of growth towards maturity, in a struggle where he finds both support and opposition.

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GREG WYTHES is a long-term resident of the northern Illawarra. He has been an English teacher in local high schools, as well as teaching yoga, qigong, massage and bodywork in local colleges and studios. For much of his time in schools he dabbled in music, working with in-school bands, as well as for drama, dance and musical performances, mainly in the area of live production.

He is particularly attracted to the geography of the northern Illawarra: the dozen or more bays and beaches, the steep rise of the escarpment to the west and the bushland that reaches down to the edge of most suburbs. It’s a unique environment: one where the natural world virtually surrounds the urban world. He enjoys spending time in that natural world.

DOBBY, Charles W.

Jul 14, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Travel \ Tourism \ Adventure

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VALE

31 May 2025

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Live Your Dreams

 

An Autobiography

THE ART OF DREAMING BIG AND LIVING FULLY

What happens when you dare to dream beyond your circumstances? Live Your Dreams offers a captivating glimpse into the life of a man who transformed youthful aspirations into a breath-taking reality.

Follow his remarkable path from collecting laundry to serving in the Army, mastering mechanics, soaring through the skies, and embarking on epic adventures across continents. This inspiring autobiography is a testament to the power of vision, resilience, and the unwavering belief that anything is possible

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HAMLEY, Neil

Jul 11, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Alternative Spirituality, Australian, Philosophy

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The Way of Truth and Reality

What is truth? What is reality?

Whether we are fully conscious of it or not, truth and reality are at the centre of our lives and extremely important to us. We constantly use the words ‘truth’ and ‘reality’. We constantly assert or imply that we know what is true and real, often in very fundamental ways. We live according to what we believe is true and real. We invest all that we have in what we believe is true and real. In times of crisis and suff ering, the importance of what is true and real becomes acutely manifest. And for those of us on a Spiritual path, we become increasingly conscious that the realisation of truth and the realisation of reality are essential and intrinsic aspects of both our journey and our Destination.

But what do we mean by the words ‘truth’ and ‘reality’? How shall we define them? What fulfills these definitions? By what means do we ascertain what is true and real: reason, logic, intuition, experience, mystical experience? How do we live according to what is true and real? What is it to live with integrity? Is there an absolute foundation for our integrity or virtue? These are profound and difficult questions and matters—and they are crucial for all of us.

The Way of Truth and Reality is an exploration of the nature of truth and reality and their importance and place in our lives, in particular, as part of any Spiritual path. We shall see that reality is nothing less than the Spiritual universe, of which our lives on Earth are a small but essential part, and that truth is the absolutely accurate, certain, unchanging, and objective knowing of the Spiritual universe or aspects of it. We see also, the capacity for truth is inherent to and grounded in the Divine including our own Divine nature as Spiritual Beings or Souls. And we see that the realisation of truth and of reality are necessary to dissolve our suff ering and, more positively, for the increasing realisation of our Spiritual Nature which is our true and real fulfillment.

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Thoughts for a Soulful Life

Who are you? What are you?

The ancient answer to these questions, still the answer, is that you are a Soul—a ray of the Divine.

Thoughts for a Soulful Life is, for the most part, a collection of short passages on the nature of the Soul, oneself, and what it means  to live a Soulful or Spiritual life. As such, it considers questions such as: What is the Soul? What is the relation of the Soul to the ego or personality and the body? What does it mean to be receptive to the Soul and to give expression to oneself as a Soul or, what is the same, to live a Spiritual life? What is the relationship of the Soul to that which may be called God but which is given different names in different traditions? And what is the relationship between the Soul that you are and the Spiritual universe of which you are part?

If you have picked up this book, maybe you have been pondering some of these questions, thinking about the Soul, for like attracts like. If so, then my sincere wish is that this book will shed some light for you upon this path which you are now undertaking—the first, last, most important and, essentially, the only path.

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Spiritual Integrity

What does it mean to live with integrity, with Spiritual integrity?

Essentially, Spiritual Integrity is an exploration of the truth and reality that each of us is a Spiritual being of infinite value, what has traditionally been called the Soul, and in this light, what it means to live with integrity. We begin by looking at the place of the human Soul within the Spiritual universe. We see that each of us, each Soul, has depths, normally hidden, which reach to the very source of all existence—

That which has been given various names but which we may call the Spirit. We see also, that the true Conscience is a voice emerging from the depths of the Soul (that one is) to guide our self-expression, and that to hear and honour the Conscience is to live with Spiritual integrity.

We experience Spiritual integrity to be an inseparable current of truth, love, power, peace, joy, freedom, goodness and beauty. As such, it is an embodiment and expression of our intrinsic Spiritual Qualities. As we live with Spiritual integrity we naturally deepen into the fullness of our Spiritual nature—in truth, there is no other way.

While this path is intrinsically valuable, for its own sake, in this way we also bring our unique gifts to the world and give the most to others.

The book unfolds to consider the relationship between Spiritual integrity and many key areas of life including self-value, individuality, love, truth, relationships, well-being, growth, vocation, success, daily life, society, freedom, the State, and the Divine.

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Neil Hamley initially trained as an occupational therapist, graduating from University of South Australia in 1994. For many years he worked in the area of mental health, in both hospital and community settings and with both government and private organisations. In conjunction with his work as a therapist and counsellor he pursued his life-long love of Spiritual research.

In 2003 he completed a Bachelor of Arts (Humanities) at the University of Adelaide, and in 2008 he completed a PhD in the area of ancient Greek philosophy at Monash University, Melbourne.

His thesis was on the nature of the human Soul in the Enneads, the work of the mystic-philosopher Plotinus, regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism. Spiritual Integrity, along with a prior work, Thoughts for a Soulful Life, are outcomes of decades of devoted Spiritual investigation, and the attempt to live according to the Spiritual truths found along the way.