“It echoed around my head. The carbon wing blade flexed in the water as I thrust like a man possessed. Past the point of no return, I was above the log jam. A broken blade, maybe even a missed stroke and that could be my last. The river was rough, it was ugly and I was bouncing like a cork.” Lovers of adventure will thrill at the task Steve ......
The name Gaze brings to mind one of Australia’s most successful sporting families. For decades Lindsay Gaze has been an integral part of Australian basketball, from player to coach, from rookie to seven Olympic Games campaigns.
This memoir from one of the most respected figures in the history of the Australian music industry has been acclaimed by the movers and shakers who knew the popular author – Nick Hampton.
An act of terrorism against women that ended with the death of a man. Murder on His Mind details the events of 16 July 2001 when security guard Steve Rogers was shot dead inside Melbourne’s Fertility Control Clinic. The Crown Prosecutor described the gunman as having gone to the clinic with ‘murder on his mind’. ‘Allanson depicts with stark ......
A fabulous, fast-paced and stirring memoir of the Vietnam War from an American civilian who bitterly self-exiled himself to Australia afterwards to start life over again. Written with candour and dark humour, Carl Robinson’s astonishing story set against the backdrop of unremitting war embraces the enduring hope and indomitable spirit of the ......
An innovative take on the memoir, a biography fusing poetry with prose to honour the author’s late mother. Part one evokes the bliss and innocence of the author’s childhood; part two focuses on her mother’s upbringing and marriage; and part three relates the heartache of her mother’s life against the backdrop of changing times in the 1960s and 70s.
