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This is the first book by a founding member of Little River Band: the first Australian band to achieve a gold album in the US.

'Every Day of My Life' tells the remarkable tale of how Beeb Birtles, David Briggs, Graeham Goble, George McArdle, Derek Pellicci and Glenn Shorrock conquered the world - and then lost their band.

The book also documents how a young Dutch boy named Gerard Bertelkamp arrived in Adelaide, unable to speak English, and ended up in not one but two major bands: Zoot (with Darryl Cotton and Rick Springfield) and Little River Band (with Glenn Shorrock and later John Farnham).

As the title suggests, Every Day of My Life is an intensely personal journey. Beeb Birtles might have lost his band but he discovered many other things along the way.

LRB's hits include 'Reminiscing', 'Help Is On Its Way', 'Lonesome Loser', 'The Night Owls', 'It's a Long Way There', 'Cool Change', 'Happy Anniversary', 'Lady', 'Curiosity (Killed the Cat)', 'Witchery', and 'Every Day of My Life'.

Due to a bizarre copyright case, Beeb Birtles can no longer make music as Little River Band. But he can tell their incredible story - and his own incredible story.

Fred Cook began his football career with Footscray in the VFL. But he really made his name in the game after crossing to Port Melbourne in the VFA.

His prodigious goalkicking in the 1970s earned him the nickname of 'Fabulous Fred' and fame at a pop-star level. He appeared on TV, on radio and wrote newspaper columns, and he mixed with Melbourne's sporting and entertainment elite.

But he fell in with a criminal crowd, formed a drug habit, lost everything and did three spells in prison.

Cook has led a remarkable life, going from hero to zero. He's always wanted to tell his story, which features football, crime and drugs, and the wider issue of sportspeople who struggle with normalcy once their careers have ended.

Fred Cook's name still resonates, thirty years after his career ended. Last year he was nominated for the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

Facing Fear is the inspiring true story of Lisa Blair, who on 25 July 2017 became the first woman to sail solo around Antarctica. She very nearly didn’t live to tell the tale. Seventy-two days into her circumnavigation, when Lisa was more than 1000 nautical miles from land, the mast of Climate Action Now came crashing down in a ferocious storm. In freezing conditions, Lisa battled massive waves and gale-force winds, fighting through the night to save her life and her boat. Following her ordeal, Lisa relied on her unbreakable spirit to beat the odds and complete her world record. With unwavering focus and determination, she sailed home, completing her journey after 183 days. This is the story of her remarkable voyage.

 

This is Ross Fitzgerald's 42nd book, an updated edition of his 2010 book My Name is Ross. Although he has now succeeded in not drinking alcohol or using drugs for 50 years, in this revised edition the author still calls himself an alcoholic, and pays extended tribute to the role of Alcoholics Anonymous in keeping him on the wagon. His involvement in AA has become a way of life; he still attends two or three meetings a week.

 

A key aspect of AA's therapeutic process involves what can be termed the mechanism of surrender. Instead of telling alcoholics to use their willpower, control their drinking or pull up their socks, AA suggests that a much more efficacious strategy is to admit that, at least in relation to alcohol, they are beaten. With his insight into the scourge of numerous kinds of addiction, Fitzgerald traces the journey of many alcoholics and drug addicts.

 

In this brutally honest and intimate portrayal of his fascinating life - his struggles as well as his successes - Fitzgerald doesn't shy away from his difficult times and regrets, but ultimately has written an uplifting and inspiring book. With the prevalence of alcohol in our daily lives for every celebration or sad occasion, a book like this is needed more than ever.

Manfred Jurgensen was born between Denmark and Germany in the coastal border town of Flensburg in 1940, a 'midnight child'. He has always been sensitive to boundaries and what's beyond the borders, emotionally and physically. He has chosen to reveal his life history - to a very large extent dominated by World War II and its aftermath - in a highly original and unusual form.

The protagonist and his lifetime experiences are wrapped within a semi-fictional presentation that he suggests might be called 'autofiction', or perhaps a 'bio-novel'. Throughout the narrative he philosophises about the nature of 'coincidence' as a life-force.

Switzerland, formerly known as the excessively clean and prosperous 'neutral' country of war-torn Europe, is the symbolic present-day setting for this imaginative narrative. It begins just after he suffers a nervous breakdown while delivering a doctoral seminar at the University of Basle. In a luxurious sanatorium for mentally disturbed patients called Humanitas, he is asked to write about his life experiences, including his own awareness of the Nazi era and what it meant to be one of 'Hitler's children'; he is regularly interviewed by a Board of distinguished psychiatrists based on these accounts. An involuntary prisoner, he longs to achieve his freedom and be reunited with his wife.

The extraordinary story of a classic Australian Pioneer - told by Australia's 'Boswell of the Bush', Ion L. Idriess.

Almost single-handedly John Flynn of the Australian Inland Mission brought to the outback the Flying Doctor Service and the Bush Hospitals. His magnificent vision, formed as he travelled on the back of a camel across the vast space of Australia's outback, took a lifetime of courageous commitment to bring to reality.

'It is impossible to read this book and remain untouched by the greatness of John Flynn's inspiration.' - Morning Post, London

Ion L. Idriess celebrated Australia's exuberant history in over 50 books, written in an easy conversational style that has made him lastingly popular. In stories such as 'Flynn of the Inland', 'Back O' Cairns' and 'Lasseter's Last Ride', Idriess brings to life the wild beauty of the outback and the many colourful characters who people it.

A biography of Arthur Upfield as told to Jessica Hawke with an introduction by Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte.

Here is Arthur Upfield's own story, the author of those remarkable murder mysteries set in odd corners of Australia and featuring the Aboriginal sleuth named 'Bony'. A detailed dossier compiled with the cheerful candour of the subject himself.

An Englishman by birth, Arthur Upfield tried his luck in Australia. After a short spell as a waiter in Adelaide, Upfield felt drawn towards the Interior where he became a boundary-rider, offside-driver, cattle-drover, opal-gouger, rabbit-trapper, vermin fence patroller and manager of a camel station, drifting through the strange terrains and unusual company which were later to become the subject of his novels. He also tells how he unwittingly provided a real outback murderer with a 'fool-proof' method of disposing of a body, and who was the original on whom the character of 'Bony' was based.

A fingerprint, DNA screening, strange indentations, and scratches. These are the things that can crack a case that seems impossible to solve.

 

Vikki Petraitis has interviewed police from Australian forensics, fingerprints, homicide and criminal investigation units, resulting in stories such as the woman who drugged and robbed lonely, vulnerable men, the forensic evidence that found the killer of three family members, the hit-run driver who killed a child, and other engrossing true crime stories.

Fragile Power provides you with the knowledge, confidence, and power to improve your leadership performance and achieve your goals in life, business, and sport.

However, 'power is fragile' and should be used sensitively, tactfully, cleverly, empathetically, and wisely to succeed.

This book, the author's fifth, is a business autobiography covering his 60-year career and delivers 40 Case Histories and Leadership Lessons learnt from his experiences with Caltex Oil, Collingwood Football Club, L'Oreal, Wurlitzer, Ford, The America's Cup, Toyota, BMW, Jetset Travel, HLB Mann Judd, Mercedes-Benz, First National Real Estate, the AFL, and many more.

Each Case History delivers five significant Leadership Lessons for your healthier, happier, wealthier, and more rewarding journey in life, business, and sport.

 

George D. Norris is regarded as Australia's first and most experienced Corporate Coach.

He commenced his business career at Caltex Oil Australia in 1958 as a Management Cadet and 16 years later departed as Training Manager. He then started his own business in 1974 as a Performance Management and Communication Consultant and in 1995 made the magic move into Management Mentoring and Corporate Coaching.

George is well known for his many years on Melbourne Radio 1377 3MP with his daily segment 'Shots of Inspiration' and later Magic 1278, where he presented his daily segments as 'The Life Coach'.

His four other books are titled 'Winning with Wisdom', 'Strategies for Success', 'Quotes and Words of Inspiration' and 'Moments on Management'.

George has studied in Germany, America, and Australia. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Australian Institute of Management, and the Australian Marketing Institute where he was awarded a CPM as Certified Practising Marketer.

He has experienced the ups and downs of life, business and sport which have provided remarkable and extensive experience. As a visionary, George uses Nike's positioning statement, and Frank Sinatra's song to say, "I just did it - my way!"

This book first appeared in 1991, claiming it 'replenishes the sense of what is possible'. It still does. This edition shows what is possible being done daily, problems encountered and overcome, breakthroughs big and small, the spread of the work across the globe, how more and more people are getting modern eye care... and how The Foundation bearing Fred Hollows' name is setting up an ever accelerating attack on blindness the like of which has never been seen before.

 

The book's heart is the same: the life, work and ideas of Fred Hollows.

 

Fred was no saint, didn't pretend to be. He was as rough a diamond as they come. Tom Keneally called him 'the wild colonial boy of Australian surgery'.

 

'Every eye is an eye' as Fred put it, and there's somewhere between 25 to 40 million blind in the Third World, half that preventable cataract work. Daunting, but no excuse for inaction or failure. He knew what tools were needed. Look, talk, listen, think. Urgent problem, time available unknown.

 

Now this lean but sturdy foundation is growing and many more vital trained people are available and the number of operations a day, a year, is climbing.

 

'The patient, whoever, wherever, he or she may be, will see the doctor'. Today, a lot of patients are seeing the doctor, and many more will tomorrow.

 

'A story to lift the spirits... it is possible to change the world.' - Judith Wright, Sun Herald.

 

'...an all-action drama' - Kirsty Cameron, Australian

 

'In parts this is a shocking book' - Peter Wilmoth, Age

 

For information about The Fred Hollows Foundation visit www.hollows.org

This book first appeared in 1991, claiming it 'replenishes the sense of what is possible'. It still does. This edition shows what is possible being done daily, problems encountered and overcome, breakthroughs big and small, the spread of the work across the globe, how more and more people are getting modern eye care... and how The Foundation bearing Fred Hollows' name is setting up an ever accelerating attack on blindness the like of which has never been seen before.

 

The book's heart is the same: the life, work and ideas of Fred Hollows.

 

Fred was no saint, didn't pretend to be. He was as rough a diamond as they come. Tom Keneally called him 'the wild colonial boy of Australian surgery'.

 

'Every eye is an eye' as Fred put it, and there's somewhere between 25 to 40 million blind in the Third World, half that preventable cataract work. Daunting, but no excuse for inaction or failure. He knew what tools were needed. Look, talk, listen, think. Urgent problem, time available unknown.

 

Now this lean but sturdy foundation is growing and many more vital trained people are available and the number of operations a day, a year, is climbing.

 

'The patient, whoever, wherever, he or she may be, will see the doctor'. Today, a lot of patients are seeing the doctor, and many more will tomorrow.

 

'A story to lift the spirits... it is possible to change the world.' - Judith Wright, Sun Herald.

 

'...an all-action drama' - Kirsty Cameron, Australian

 

'In parts this is a shocking book' - Peter Wilmoth, Age

 

For information about The Fred Hollows Foundation visit www.hollows.org

International author, police officer and consultant Cat Williams was, in her younger days, voted most likely to end up in prison. After her expulsion from an exclusive girls' boarding school, Cat was angry and borderline neurotic. She veered off the rails and when arrested by the local police, she joked that she would make a better copper than the officers who had locked her up. This is a humorous true story of triumph over adversity and follows the author on her journey from a junior police officer in London to working as a royalty protection officer at Buckingham Palace.

You will learn:

- How to overcome adversity without losing your sense of humour

- Strategies to persevere in the face of considerable odds

- Ways to overcome your fear of failure

- How to turn your vulnerability into strength

- Why it's important to take responsibility for the direction of your life

- The secrets to stop procrastinating and take action

- Tips to finding your true passion in life

Find your passion and take control of your life today!

20% of the profits of this book will be donated to The Harry Perkins Institute for Cancer Research.

Featuring the latest information about the murder of Des Moran, including Judy Moran's involvement, these are the gritty stories of Australia's crime world. A hive of secret activity the Australian gangland world is fraught with double-crossings, murders, theft, violence and fraud. Living by their own set of rules and regulations, which often involve crooked members of government and the police force, this is your chance to gain a real insight into how the minds and groups of these gangs really work.

Ted Docker was an Australian of Irish descent who as a young man wanted to change the world, joining first the Industrial Workers of the World and then helping form the Communist Party of Australia. He was steadfastly loyal to the Soviet Union and by historical record a stern hard-liner.

 

This is not the whole story.

Ted Docker was an Australian of Irish descent who as a young man wanted to change the world, joining first the Industrial Workers of the World and then helping form the Communist Party of Australia. He was steadfastly loyal to the Soviet Union and by historical record a stern hard-liner.

 

This is not the whole story.