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In this modern age of cheap flights and easy air travel we tend to forget that in the not so distant past air travel was for the select few who could afford the luxury of being able to travel in style. It came with all the accoutrements of class –…
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When Tim Ward and his 20 year old son Josh set out to “conquer” Kilimanjaro it is with a sense of adventure, of walking in the steps of the many that have gone before and real desire to reform the bonds, that of father and son, from an adult perspective.…
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Nick Groff captures your attention on page one of his insightful stories into ghost hunting as he describes his first confrontation with a spirit and the pathway he took, and is still taking, documenting and researching the essence of those who have gone before but for some reason have decided…
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With the 2013 Aussie Rules Football season returning with somewhat of a furore it is perhaps fitting to take a read of Malthouse and once again remind ourselves that Aussie Rules has been around for a very long time and has a long and honourable tradition of doing the "right"…
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Whilst this may be only aspects of the authors life I found it very much an exercise in self involved promotion with massive gaps, and not necessarily helpful chronology/ structure. It is a light and breezy read and will definitely pass the time on a long haul flight or a…
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Anna Morten tells her life story, through the medium of Emma, from a brutally honest perspective. In doing so she offers hope and understanding to others caught in the same situation, that of trying to find a right pathway but never quite succeeding. Born into a family struggling to survive…
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Chris Masters is one of Australia’s best known investigative reporters having spent much of the past decades covering one War or another in parts of the world such as Africa, East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq. Along the way he began to wonder just who was the Aussie Digger: was he…
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Edgy, cynical and enlightening, dependent on your idea of enlightenment, Daniel Simpson uses his undoubted talents as a journalist to take us into a world of disillusionment and survival - his. As a journalist working for Reute,r then for the New York Times he found his way into the Balkans…
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A film has been made of this man’s life, along with a documentary. Why, you may well ask. The story of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo’s life is one that inspires while encouraging as well as highlighting the plight of the many who have become paralysed through a quirk of fate,…
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This is a book for blokes by a bloke who somewhere along the track realised that while it’s OK to be a bloke, somewhere else in life there has got to be more. This is a book about blokes that all women, married or who were once married to a…
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Damien Brown qualified as a Medical Doctor and did a stint in Cambodia. He then decided the next step was to work in one of the many war torn countries where he could help make a difference in the daily lives of the many impoverished people desperately in need of…
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This is a story of human survival and one that will make your heart weep for all the people, worldwide, whose lives have been torn apart by war, famine and the complete collapse of their societies. It is also one of hope, triumph and survival. One that shows the human…
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In 2008 Tom Lubbock was diagnosed with a brain tumour. From the first it was always understood there was no cure, it was simply a matter of time and management that was under discussion: the end result would still be the same. As he had been a wordsmith all his…
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When Brad Kyle set out to walk the Camino Trail to Santiago in Spain he did so with an air of expectation – about what he was not sure, other than he would be walking the same pathways pilgrims had been walking for hundreds of years. Little did he expect…
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Memoirs are tricky things in so far as there has to be a beginning to everything and to this end, in Playing House, Choi has selected a random place in her life, that of London. Joining her there is somewhat confusing as you need to take a minute to realise…
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