Number 96, Mavis Bramston and me by David Sale
Behind the scenes of two of Australia's most outrageous television shows.
Two shows changed the face of Australian television forever, and rocked the nation to its foundations. And now, the creator of Number 96 and the Executive Producer of The Mavis Bramston Show takes you behind the scenes of these two controversial, outrageously ground-breaking series for a jaunt through the industry’s Golden Years.
These two shows flaunted the unmentionable, destroyed taboos, ridiculed sacred cows and dared to deal with subjects hitherto considered too shocking for polite society. They were condemned from the pulpit, slayed by the critcs, yet adored by an immense majority of viewers. Read More »
Reunion
Bruce L. Russell
Set in Sydney’s Royal National Park, Reunion is both a sombre mystery and an uplifting love story from Hungerford Award winning writer Bruce Russell, with ‘an easy style, a talent for dialogue and an eye that dissects social mores with unassuming clarity’. Read More »
Why Shouldn't I Call My Son Clint?
David Hocking
Using secret sounds of names as a predictor of personality. Like a tiny piece of personalised music, each of us has a name that, like all sounds, evokes some small and subconscious response from those we meet. Read More »
Lentil as Anything
Shanaka Fernando Lentil as Anything strips back the labels that have been slapped onto Shanaka’s media-built poster boy persona and gives us an insight into some of the experiences that have shaped the man he has become. Read More »
Snapshots of Sri Lanka
Lee Mylne
Once called “the island of serendipity”, Sri Lanka is a place where a rich culture and chequered history combine. Where cricket tragics, surfers, and adventurers meet Buddhist monks, fishermen, and orphaned elephants. Where the scent of cinnamon floats on the air and there’s a feeling that anything is possible. Read More »
Taking the Drop Taking the Drop is the life-affirming story of four women who took up surfing in their forties, broke away from their existing daily routines and steered their lives into new directions. Their love of the ocean broadens their horizons, teaches them lessons of skill and survival, allows them time for reflection and shows them that change and loss make way for growth, renewal and peace. Read More »
Freedom, Democracy + Accountability
Bede Harris A Vision for a New Australian Constitution
In a time of increasing voter dissatisfaction with how government is conducted in Australia, this book explains how our Constitution works, and why it is in need of reform. Foreword by the Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG. Read More »
Your Professional Headspace
Scott Charlton
Too busy looking after clients to consider yourself? Feel like you're in a washing machine, wrung out at the end of the spin cycle? If so, parking your soul at the door of the office each day and going through the motions is not the answer. Read More »
Accounting Practices Don't Add Up!
Rob Nixon
What your clients want is an accounting firm that looks to the future and provides them with timely advice on what they should be doing now to improve their businesses and ultimately to help them achieve their financial and lifestyle goals. Read More »
Beyond Belief
James F. Coyle
If you were told that you could use your mind to influence a slot machine or dice fall....would you find this beyond belief? If you were told that you could use your mind in a telepathic manner to influence the thinking pattern of another individual or group of people...would you believe it? Read More »
A Balance of Self
Dr Winfried Sedhoff
A balanced life is something we all yearn for, but it can only be honestly achieved through a balance of self. This important book gently and sensitively guides us towards our inner self and shows us step by step how we can rescue, resuscitate and nurture our real identity back to health. Read More »
I, Cott Dog
David Hocking
"It's funny, and quite fascinating" - SCOOP Magazine. Snapshot of life in Cottesloe, Western Australia, as told almost exclusively through the eyes of its dogs (and their owners). Read More »
Jinkers & Whims
Jack Bradshaw Jinkers and Whims traces the development of the methods and machines used to harvest the forests of Western Australia over the last 150 years, from first settlement to the present day, from horse and steam power to modern mechanical harvesters. Read More »
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