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Grant van Wingerden was raised in rural and remote Western Australia which shaped his early years and his eventual fascination with the polar opposite, city life. Voices Verses Vices collects the poems Grant wrote in exercise books during the eighties and nineties. These poems often channel the voices and perchance the vices of those with whom he had shared a space in boys' and men's hostels, ¿ats, and inner city share houses. Crafted with a f...

Following a sequence of extraordinary circumstances, the intelligent, articulate and notably attractive Jimmy O'Sullivan amassed a following on social media that ran into the millions, making him a very wealthy household name across the world.But in his early twenties, after being lured to Rome by an offer he couldn't refuse, Jimmy turned his back on fame and fortune, became an ordained priest, and was appointed to head up one of the most powe...

Reuben Armstrong, Sam Armstrong's eldest son, is faced with marriage to a faithless local lass who may or may not be carrying his child. Then he bumps into Hannah Rigby and his life is changed forever.Hannah is a gritty, stubborn Yorkshire lass whose life is devoted to supporting her ageing parents and their small farm. She finds Reuben's compelling attraction hard to resist, but resist she does - she is not his lass, whatever he might say.The...

The patient-clinician interface is the most sacrosanct space in healthcare.How well we inhabit that space informs how well we deliver care.A system is perfectly designed to deliver the results it does, so if those results include preventable errors - fatigue, burnout, bullying and 'never' events - then something is amiss.In Authenticity, change becomes possible.Nurses:Awesome today, Awesome tomorrow, Awesome always.But only ever human.And only...

How can a simple shift in mindset create a profound shift in your life?By cultivating an attitude of celebration and appreciation, it is possible to feel great, even when life is not great. Finding the peace that passes all understanding is fundamental to many spiritual philosophies, yet this is exactly what transpired when the authors began using the Yay! Mindset principles. The authors experienced such a shift whilst facing some turbulent ti...

Deep, hilarious and beautiful, Longgrassing with a Laptop: the Art and Science of Homelessness is a Day in the Life of a Longgrasser, a How to be Homeless and Happy handbook, a Portrait of an Artist, a Call for Revolution, and a Submission to the Inquiry into Homelessness in Darwin. It is a sublime Creative Literary Nonfiction masterpiece.

Lou Petrakis is a man obsessed with owning ancient Grecian gold. With his friend, Kostas, he undertakes a daring jewellery heist from an Athens museum before escaping to Mykonos where a mutual friend, Miklos, advises them to trade the jewellery on Istanbul's black market. The three men begin enjoying an idyllic existence on Mykonos - until their opulent lifestyle comes to an abrupt halt ...

Sudden deaths and strange accidents have been occurring at the Mountain View Residential Manor in Kinross, a small town in Northern Tasmania. Sergeant Plate believes that because of the residents' advanced years and dependence on medication these are not unusual occurrences. However, Dimpy Gruar, a sprightly but clumsy seventy-plus lady, and her friends, Judith Milner and Ronni Goodman, are convinced there is a murderer living in the Manor. Al...

The 'forever' zeitgeist is the spirit of the 'century of insanity' - 1950 to 2050 - the last century before enlightenment. (Or the extinction of human civilisation - whichever comes first.) Sebastian and Virginia are the founders of OWL - One World League - a brave new political movement designed to address the iniquities of the world: political corruption, environmental destruction and overpopulation. Archaic 18th century political thought tu...

Eight-year-old Archie's parents have decided to end their relationship. Archie finds himself navigating new situations around the changes to his life and routine, the changes in the family dynamic, and the obstacles to finding support among his friends and peers at school.Archie is a child's perspective of parental separation and can be read alone, or paired with Charlotte, which takes the view of Archie's older sister. These books are designe...

Ten-year-old Charlotte's parents are always fighting. When they decide to end their relationship, Charlotte finds herself navigating new situations around her siblings, the changes to her life and routine, and the changes in the family dynamic.Charlotte is a child's perspective of parental separation and can be read alone, or paired with Archie, which takes the view of Charlotte's younger brother. These books are designed to be read to any chi...

Write what you know" is Maria Augustus-Dunn's mantra. With this in mind, she wrote her first book Married Quarter - Boots, Berets and Bloody Uniforms in 2016 which detailed her 21 years as a military spouse. Married Quarter is a glimpse into the world of military families who endure postings, deployments, long periods of separation and often loneliness. A diagnosis of a benign brain tumour in 2008 turned her life upside down and forced some pr...

When Alfredo and Roberto board the Santa Isabella to find work in Havana in 1884, Roberto is brutally robbed before they can disembark, leaving the couple facing an even harsher future than the one they left behind.Eager for any kind of work, they are lured into a year's tenure at the plantation of Lars Van Linden, where the little kindness Alfredo receives comes from Lars' overseer, Nathaniel. Jealous that Alfredo is receiving Nathaniel's att...

A LONG TIME AGORIGHT HEREAN ALIEN INVASION BEGANFollow a few thousand aliens stranded on Earth, eight hundred years ago.They long for the same things we do - good and bad. They struggle with 12th-century humankind and with each other about what they must or should do to survive. Throughout their lives, and across a thousand years of humanity, the consequences of their actions take a toll on themselves and the planet.

Ozzy was continuing his journey around Australia and learnt that Queensland was home to one of the greatest wonders of the world:The Great Barrier ReefThe Reef stretches for 2300 kilometres along the entire length of the Queensland coastline.Join Ozzy as he discovers the magic and beauty of the Reef and why everyone loves and cares so much about the beautiful and colourful corals, fish and all of the other wonderful marine life species who hav...

As bombs rain down over London during the Blitz, Major Tommy Haupner negotiates the rubble-filled streets of Bloomsbury on his way to perform at a socialite party. The explosive event of the evening is not his virtuosic violin playing, but the 'almost-blond' American who not only insults him, but then steals his heart.The Seventh of December follows a few months in the lives of two Intelligence agents in the early part of World War Two. Set ag...

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Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do painful things force you to be Brave?In this compelling collection of true stories, Brooke gives exclusive access to her personal diary documenting some of her most devastating experiences in life. Brooke offers a deep dive-in to the raw emotions, wounds and destructive thought patterns that accompany such devastation, in times of tremendous pain from homelessness to heartbreak and everything in ...

The truth about how to overcome adversity, with a foreword by Professor Steven Hayes, author of The Liberated Mind and originator of acceptance and commitment therapy, The Trauma Banquet gives raw insights into how to build personal resilience in the face of lingering trauma.At the heart of this memoir is the liberating and inspirational message: eating pain is empowering. As a professor and educator of clinical psychology with 38 years of tre...

As Jacquelyn Ann sat alone in the airport, she ignored his desperate pleas to bring her back to the hell her life had become. Every part of her felt wracked with anguish, after months of intense drug use and violent, soul-destroying domestic abuse.When he first entered her life three years earlier, Jacquelyn was a divorcee in her late forties, with an established teaching career. At first, he seemed perfect. Captivating and intriguing, he had ...