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PASS THE SUGAR
By JOE HACHEM
with Peter Ralph
Introductions by Greg Raymer & Shane Warne

Large paperback
312 pages
plus 16 pages of photos
$32.95


Pass The Sugar (Joe's famous catch phrase) takes you on a journey that many dream of...from playing home games of Poker with friends, to becoming a multimillionaire world Poker champ. Joe's story proves that dreams can come true. It also gives valuable insights into how Joe plays the cards he is dealt, in life as well as on the poker table.

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PELLETIER
The Forgotten Castaway of
Cape York
By Stephanie Anderson

Large format paperback
370 pages
plus 8 pages of photos
$39.95

French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier was fourteen years old when the Saint-Paul was shipwrecked near Rossel Island off New Guinea in 1858. After a gruelling voyage in a longboat across the Coral Sea to Cape York, he was rescued by a coastal Aboriginal family and remained with them as a member of the Uutaalnganu people for seventeen years.

Even though it is all but forgotten in Australia, and in France his Cape York experience is known only in its broad outlines, his story rivals that of the famous William Buckley. Now, for the first time, this remarkable true story is presented in English, complemented by an in-depth introductory essay and ethnographic commentary.

This book is required reading for anyone with an interest in Australian history, anthropology, or the intriguing pre-colonial world of a coastal Aboriginal people.

 
WRITTEN IN THE LAND:
The Life of Queenie McKenzie
By Jennifer Joi Field
An initiative of the Warmun Aboriginal Community Western Australia

This beautifully produced book tells the story of Queenie McKenzie, a remarkable indigenous woman from the East Kimberley in Western Australia.
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  Limited Edition in slip case .

New Non Fiction

              

 

The Landy Era
By Len Johnson
Introduction by Ron Clarke

World-class athletics was something that happened overseas, not in Australia.
But on 13 December 1952, all that changed when John Landy ran a mile at Melbourne’s Olympic Park in 4:02.1. In those few minutes, Landy re-ignited the race for the sub-four minute mile and inspired a generation of Australian athletes to challenge the world at distances from 880 yards to the marathon. More...

  

 

Russell Mockridge
The Man In Front
By Martin Curtis

The life and tragic death of a legendary Australian gold medal winning cyclist.

  

 

  

 

          


 
Out of the Well
My battle with school bullying and severe depression
By Lisa Eskinazi

This is a truly courageous book. Lisa tells us what it is like to be the victim of extreme school bullying and what it was like to be hospitalized, institutionalized and homeless. Lisa also had the courage to stand up to those who bullied her and the school that failed in its duty of care, by taking her case to court and winning.

  

 
A Place in the World: Stories from Australian Volunteers International
By Australian Volunteers International

This beautifully produced book is the expression of a labour of love, compassion and sheer hard work by ordinary Australians doing extraordinary things and the organization, Australian Volunteers International that continues to provide the leadership in providing assistance around the world where most needed.		  
               
 

Fields of Omagh
By Kristen Manning

This story of one of Australiaís most courageous racing champions not only covers his remarkable career but also takes us beyond the track to the tales of his owners and connections and how he transformed their lives.

  

Coming soon

 

The Hoax of the Jack The Ripper Diary

‘The Hoax of the Jack The Ripper Diary’ lays bare the truth about the purported Diary of Jack the Ripper and identifies the forger. This book will send shockwaves through the community of ‘Ripperologists’, and is also a compelling personal journey.

  
               

 

Hear Me Talking To Ya
By Bob Sedergreen

Many books have bee written about Australian Jazz from the outside looking in, but this book is written from the inside and is a revealing and rewarding experience from the heart and soul of an important figure in the history of Australian Jazz.

  

 

  
 

New Fiction

              

 

Award Winning Australian Writing

A collection of award winning short stories & bush poetry. Each story has been selected from writing that has won an Australian short story or bush poetry competition over the last year.

More about this book and links to short story competitions...

  

 

Only Gods Never Die
By Karl Hudousek

A gripping adventure story
based on real historic quests for
the priceless buried treasures of
ancient Egypt.
How do you lose an army of fifty thousand without a trace?

  
               


 

  

Enlighten Up
By Sandy Gandhi

A literary titterary by Sandy Gandhi of Byron Bay, Australia's most easterly Indian. Foreword by Di Morrisey.


  

 

The CEO
By Peter Ralph

A new business thriller with a plot that keeps you guessing.
"The CEO is a pacy business thriller reminiscent of Douglas Kennedy's The Job and some of John Grisham's books..."
Bookseller Publisher 2007

  
               



 

The Cry of the Hornbill
By David Shaw

An adventure thriller, set in the jungles of Borneo, written by David Shaw, an Australian journalist with many years of experience as a correspondent in Asia and the Middle East.


 

 

      

   

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