‘A Carlton please!’ a name that’s still shouted across every bar and hotel in Australia. It was one of six breweries that united to form the company we know today as CUB (Foster’s), yet we still call it Carlton. But this is not a book of that great company – it’s a book of the people that made Carlton the greatest. They were all part of the long ......
Unveiling cricket’s greatest entertainer! The first Australian cricketer to play 100 internationals across all three levels (Tests, ODIs and T20s), David Warner is a champion of his generation; fabulous but flawed. No Australian opener in history has surpassed his rapid-fire strike rate in excess of 70 runs per 100 balls. Only one other has ......
The latest hilarious collection of Rowan Dean’s weekly satirical columns in the AFR Weekend poking fun at the craziness of political correctness gone mad, cancel culture and woke identity politics in Australia’s modern political world from 2017 to the present, including the demise of Malcolm Turnbull, the rise of ScoMo, Biden, Covid, China, ......
Hard copy, hot metal and the power of the written word
Welcomed by Phillip Adams as an important Australian memoir full of insight and humour, this is also a story about growing up. It’s the personal journey of a 16-year-old boy starting work in ‘the golden age of journalism’ when reporters worked with hard copy and hot metal and endured a mixture of instruction and reprimand....
Award winning commentator Michael Schiavello examines the greatest sports commentators in history, the best calls ever heard, and offers stories from his own journey through the sports broadcasting world as 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of sports commentary.
How Orwellian Language Control and Group Think are Destroying Western Societies
An informative and at times amusing read for those interested in current affairs, politics, the rise of wokeness and how Western society’s way of life is being destroyed by cultural-left ideology and political correctness. Readers will be made aware of the dangers of thoughtcrime and how to avoid being targeted.
Never faltering in her claim of innocence, Sue Neill-Fraser was released on parole in October 2022, after 13 dark years in a Hobart prison for murdering her partner Bob Chappell. But her rightful fight to quash her wrongful conviction continues. This book reveals the entire shocking case of Sue Neill-Fraser, whose crime was invented and her ......
The Chinese Labour Corps and the Chinese Anzacs in the Great War
The Forgotten provides a doorway into a lost part of Australian history. The Chinese Labour Corps comprised some 200,000 labourers who worked under difficult and dangerous conditions during World War I. The Forgotten celebrates the shared history between China and Australia and the combined efforts to promote peace.
The Fortune Tellers sets out 32 personal stories of wealth building – sometimes warts and all – the wins, the losses and the lessons learned. The book features insights from a who’s who of Australia’s business community including David Hains, Warren Anderson, Carol and Alan Schwartz and Jennifer Nason.
