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14.05.2022 Please see below link to register for Franca's event with Geelong Libraries happening on Thursday August 11 at Corio Library. Up to 80 people can register. Please promote to everyone you know https://events.grlc.vic.gov.au/event/6673751

10.05.2022 At the end of the first book (The Veiled Thread), I wanted to know more about Jimmy and his experiences. The Severed Cord provides that, taking us on the same journey as the first book, but from Jimmy’s perspective. I found the novel exposed the difficulties that Jimmy had to face as an Indigenous Australian during the period prior to WW1. The injustice and cruelty to our indigenous community was laid bare, hunted like wild animals, no rights or privileges, abandoned to ext...Continue reading

02.05.2022 Featured New Book Title Searching for Professor Schmidt Author: Anton Mulders 342 pages Thriller ISBN: 978-1-925707-87-8... RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne, Australia About the Book Africa, a continent so vast and wealthy, with such enormous potential, yet subjugated and exploited. Independence came with great expectations, but corruption and nepotism became entrenched, causing a great chasm between the new ruling class and the general population. Bughama was a case in point, with a rogue section of the armed forces eagerly watching for an opportunity to pounce in order to save the country. Friends and former expatriates Anthoine and Shahn embark on a sentimental journey to Bughama where they become involved in the search for Professor Schmidt and his daughter, the exceedingly beautiful Amy, both of whom have disappeared under mysterious but separate circumstances during a time of great uncertainty. A story of betrayal, passion and courage. Author bio Anton Mulders was born in the Netherlands in 1939 and grew up in a family of two generations of building and civil engineering contractors. After finishing his studies, he joined a civil engineering company as an estimator and was actively involved in planning and controlling projects such as housing and industrial projects, road construction, and large drinking water supply pipelines. Anton was offered and accepted a position as Plant Engineer at an African subsidiary of a large, internationally-acclaimed, Dutch concrete construction company. After some twelve years there, he was head-hunted by a German engineering company for whom he successfully carried out a multitude of assignments in Europe, Northeast and West Africa, the Middle East, Jordan and Iraq, Southeast Asia, Indonesia and South Korea, which gave him the opportunity to travel extensively, especially through Africa. The same company appointed him as joint Managing Director of a German-African joint venture company in Nigeria, producing a variety of prefabricated concrete products. While in Africa, Anton learned to fly and obtained his pilots licence. In his spare time, he enjoys flying, horse riding, and scuba diving. Anton is now retired and lives in Perth, Western Australia

12.04.2022 Featured Book Title Release Damengin Author: Jenny Wellington 390 pages Australian Fiction ISBN: 978-1-925707-85-4... RRP $29.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne, Australia About the Book Damengin is a country town in Queensland weighed down by the worst drought in living memory and its inhabitants are all desperately waiting for government drought relief. The bad news is that the funds have been sent and spent by Council’s Shire Clerk Shifty Grey and his corrupt cohorts. This is a rollicking fast-moving story about political skulduggery, greed, love and lust. It features outrageous characters, blossoming romances, pathos and importantly, has an incredibly happy ending. Author bio A former journalist, Jenny Wellington lives on a farm near Kenilworth in Queensland with her husband Peter where they breed Angus and Droughtmaster cattle. She negotiates the paddocks in her trusty old Landrover assisted by a menagerie of dogs, including three kelpies and two Jack Russells. During her years spent working as a country reporter, Jenny gained firsthand knowledge of the ups and downs, as well as the goings on in small country towns. She also met dozens of hilarious and lovable characters, all of which form the foundation of Damengin, her first book.

03.04.2022 The 2022 Queensland Literary Awards are now open for applications! The Awards showcase outstanding authors from across Australia, celebrating emerging and established authors across a range of genres. On offer are eight national prizes for outstanding published books by Australian writers, illustrators and creators, as well as development awards for unpublished manuscripts and opportunities for Queensland writers. Published book awards & prizes: ... Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance Fiction Book Award Non-Fiction Book Award Children’s Book Award Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award Development awards & prizes: Queensland Writers Fellowships David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Awards Queensland Writers Centre is proud to provide support as part of the Awards to three Queensland Writers Fellows and two Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award recipients. More information about each of the prizes and how to apply is available on the State Library of Queensland's website. Queensland Writers Centre - Publishable Manuscript Development Program Applications open: 7 March - 10 May 2022 Queensland Writers Centre's 2022 Publishable program is open now, accepting unpublished manuscripts of a broad range of genres and formats. 10 shortlisted writers will receive the opportunity to pitch their work to leading Australian publishers and agents later this year. Feedback Sessions are available to all applicants. Enter now - our readers are waiting! Check out our website for the Application Guidelines and more information - and make sure to follow us on social media for tips and tricks for putting your best application forward.

29.03.2022 Featured New Book Title Release Henry's Empire Author: Bob Bennett 176 pages Historical Novel ISBN: 978-1-925707-84-7... RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne, Australia About the Book Henry’s Empire, an historical novel, is the story of the life and times of Ernest Henry, an English adventurer who, at the height of England’s empire days, sought his fortune in Australia. By the time he was 30, he’d made a fortune. Then lost the lot. Undeterred, he set out into the remote and dangerous north-west frontier of Queensland in search of new wealth. Henry’s story is told by himself and by others he associated with in his search for that wealth. Much of that story is based on the extensive records, journals and letters that Henry wrote during that period. It also relies on consultation of records of events of the time. Author bio Bob Bennett grew up in Henry territory ... in Cloncurry and in Ayr on the Burdekin. A journalist with some 50 years’ experience, he worked on newspapers in Townsville, Brisbane and Hong Kong before providing media services to government and business organisations. He also studied at both James Cook and Queensland Universities.

25.01.2022 Featured Book Release Obese No More Follow My Journey Author: Judith Coppe Kersten 104 pages... Genre: Health/Weight Loss ISBN: 978-1-925707-23-6 RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book I found The Holy Grail to maintaining goal weight. Keeping to the daily 1200 calorie count for life is the secret! I know myself - The weaknesses and the strengths. My weakness was eating too much food. The strength I had was a positive mindset to lose weight. I had to be realistic from the beginning and serious about losing excess weight. I had to put in the time to achieve what I had set out to do, as well as the hard work to be successful in reaching my goal. It was a revelation to discover the secret to keeping the weight off. Author Bio Judith Coppe Kersten is Australian. She was brought up in Cowra NSW. At age 17, she had a calling to become a nurse. Helping people was natural to her. Her general training began in Sydney, marriage followed then she started a family. Shes travelled around Australia and overseas. Her interest in nutritional food started because she wanted to give her children a healthy life. Judith is retired and lives in Chittaway Bay, NSW, to be near her family.

25.01.2022 The New Total War of the 21st Century And the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic By Gregory R. Copley, AM. Melbourne, 2020: Sid Harta Publishers. 320pp, with index and glossary, footnoted. Soft cover. ISBN: XXX. Price: AU$X. The New Total War of the 21st Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic, by Gregory R. Copley, AM (Melbourne, 2020: Sid Harta Publishers) is a work of philosophy and analysis on the transformed nature of human society and the way it goes about the business o...Continue reading

24.01.2022 Former PM John Howard support the launch of Picture a Dry Riverbed by Geoff Hazel. Memoir The time: 1999. The location: The mountainous district of Ermera, East Timor. The Participants: Locals from the various Timorese factions; Indonesian Police and Military; International Electoral Observers; United Nations personnel, paid staff, international volunteers, locally employed staff, three Military Liaison Officers and twenty five Police Officers from 8 nations. The task: To o...rganise and conduct a vote, known as the Popular Consultation, on East Timor remaining as part of Indonesia or becoming an independent nation. The story how the determination, dedication and courage, often to the point of valour, of the UN personnel overcame all obstacles and faced down all threats which enabled the East Timorese to exercise their right to decide. Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia

23.01.2022 Featured Book Release TRAUMA FREE - Five Steps to Freedom Author: Helen Elizabeth Johnson Genre: SELF HELP ISBN: 978-1-925707-09-0 146 pages... Paperback RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Helen has healed herself of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; taught successfully and shared with clients and community groups of all ages. This is a personal story of finding health after years of suffering PTSD. No one is immune! Shock and trauma do not discriminate; anyone can be affected. The nervous system is the bodys engine. Your mind, however, is the driver. Millions of people worldwide are affected by varying levels of PTSD. There are many situations which traumatise people: Car Accidents Wars Earthquakes Fires Domestic Violence Robberies Abuse The bodies nervous system is shocked first, and trauma follows. The longer the emotional feelings internalised at the moment of shock are left untreated the more affected a persons life may be: Depression, Exhaustion, Behaviour Changes, Phobias, Mood Swings, Powerlessness, Fear, Terror, Loneliness, Abandonment, Hate, and Anger. Ask yourself Do you have a picture of an incident/accident in your minds eye that you are unable to let go of? Using Trauma Therapy to release the emotional feeling word (e.g. anger) attached to the picture will lessen the effect of both shock and trauma. Trauma Free explains how to recognise, diagnose and treat shock and trauma. Included is an easy to follow exercise which helps release the original shock.

22.01.2022 Hi Alison, Have another review request if you are receptive. Text attached. Trust you all remain safe and well. Many thanks and cheers... Kerry Featured Book Title Release Benitos Gold Author: Bob Menzies Australian Fiction ISBN: 978-1-925707-29-8 RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Pirates, treasure & modern-day murder. This is the story of pirate treasure that people have been looking for in Australia for over 150 years. The story of how it got here, of the adventurous team that is hired to find it, and the man who would commit murder and much more to keep it all to himself. Follow the ABC Adventure Team as they battle to save a missing boy, discover lost treasure while trying to avoid a killer determined to stop them. ABC Adventure Tours. Archie, baz and Chris are three war veterans who, with the help of friends, make up ABC Adventure Tours. They are hired to travel the country looking for ship wrecks, missing gold from the past and other mysteries. Follow their stories as they dive through history and hidden dangers to uncover the truth behind some of Australias most baffling mysteries. Author bio Bob Menzies was born in Seymour, Victoria. His father was in the army which resulted in Bob being educated in various schools and colleges around Australia. After he finished school, he joined the Royal Australian Navy where he spent 14 years travelling around the world. After this, he spent 14 years with the South Australian Correctional Services Department reaching the position of Manager. When Bob retired from this part of his life, he started writing and continues to do so to this day. Bob lives with his wife, Heather, in the mountains just out of Melbourne. This is his second novel.

22.01.2022 Featured Advance Title Davidia and the Foreboding Dinner Author: Ken Spargo ISBN: 978-1-925707-32-8 Young Adult Pages 278...Continue reading

22.01.2022 Featured Book Title Release The Beauty of Life Author: Antoinette de Morton 140mms X 216mms pp120 Art and Poetry... ISBN: 978-1-925707-40-3 RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Poetry and Art from Antoinette de Morton Author Bio I am a professional artist in the Royal Society of London Collection, the Yarra Collection, Artbank, the St Vincent’s Hospital Collection and Julian Burnside Collection. Also private collections in Australia, America, France, Italy and Japan. I am also a Jazz and Blues singer with the Yarra Yarra Jazz Band. I toured Europe twice and Japan, and sang for Prince Frederick and Princess Mary in Denmark.

21.01.2022 Featured Book Title Release The Twins of Falconia Autor: David Carter 140mms X 216mms Fantasy 338pp... ISBN: 978-1-925707-41-0 RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia See more

20.01.2022 Featured Book Title Release Are You Sure You Want to Know? A parapsychological mystery Author: Alaine M. Neilson ISBN: 978-1-925707-19-9... Fiction 350 pages RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia Sid Harta Book Launch and Review Updates at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sid-Harta-Book-Publishers/166770940410 About the Book Morgan and Anton have been happy for five years in an apparently perfect marriage, but there is growing tension between them she cannot understand. While she questions her life choices she wonders why her childhood memories start so late. Why does she have no recollection of her parents? And why was she sent at a young age from Scotland to live with godparents in Australia? Above all, Morgan wants to know, and she is prepared to abandon everything to find out. She is not prepared, however, for the shock of the truth and its devastating consequence. Author Bio Alaine M Neilson is passionate about history, reading, art, theatre, the sea, and our place in the Universe. She has a background in education and design, and degrees in Literature, Visual Communications and a Masters degree in Writing. Are You Sure You Want to Know? is her debut novel. Born in Scotland, where she spent her early years, Alaine lived most of her childhood in Australia. She now lives on a bush property in South East Queensland with her husband and a family of wallabies.

20.01.2022 Featured Book Release: One Thing Leads to Another: Author: David W. Roberts pages 426 Fiction / Thriller RRP $29.95... ISBN: 978-1-925707-01-4 About the Book Its 1970s Adelaide, an elderly transport magnate, living in a retirement village with his much younger attractive wife, dies suddenly from a heart attack. The family is furious, when they discover he has left his fortune entirely to the young wife, whom the family regard as nothing more than a high class call girl. Three years later, a surprising death-bed confession, results in Chief Inspector Johansson and his offsider, Senior Constable, Tania Markovina, being appointed to try and untangle a string of crimes committed over a period of twenty years, all of which, in some way, involved the deceased magnate. Uncovering the nature of the crimes is difficult, but identifying who the perpetrators actually are, is an even greater challenge. There are a number of likely suspects. Unraveling the whole story involves dogged police work in Adelaide, Sydney, the central west of New South Wales and even beautiful Samoa. Eventually, the elusive criminals are identified. They are clever and dangerous and hunting them down proves a risky business. What will be the final outcome? Author bio David Roberts migrated as a qualified teacher from the United Kingdom. After seventeen years working as a teacher, deputy principal and principal in country New South Wales, he became a university academic. University appointments and consultancies enabled David to travel widely and broaden his horizons. Now retired, he lives with his wife in Adelaide.

20.01.2022 Author Bio Dr Sabar Rustomjee M.B., B.S. (Bombay), F.R.A.N.Z.C.P., D.P.M. (Melb) President International Assoc. of Group Psychotherapy (IAGP) (2000-2003) Past Adjunct Senior Lecturer Monash University, Melbourne... Clinical Member Group Analytic Society London Clinical Member American Group Psychotherapy Assoc. Past Course Co-ordinator of Group Analytic Studies Monash University Member Australian Assoc. of Group Psychotherapy Fellowship Award IAGP (2018) Has given papers in Melbourne, Sydney, London, Tokyo, Greece, Trivandrum and Spain, worked in Sri Lanka in the casualty wards and inpatient wards. and the Royal Liverpool Childrens Hospital, U.K., in the medical and surgical units, as well as in Emergency. Since emigrating to Australia, Dr Rustomjee has worked as a Psychiatrist at the Monash Medical Centre in many units for the past forty years, prior to retirement. See more

19.01.2022 About the Author of "Trauma Free" I was born into a fear-filled environment in 1940 under the umbrella of potential Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. World War II was in full swing and because Australia was so far from the war zone on the other side of the world, life for me, the newborn, we thought would go on as usual when the war ended. But that was not to be. War changed everything! Without warning my life and the lives of our family members were changed forever when my fat...her came home from WWII in 1945. He was discharged with medically diagnosed anxiety and a stress disorder shell shock. Shell shock, years later was renamed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). My PTSD story began in those early years and it was only when thinking about my life when writing this book that I understood just how subtly insidious and destructive to a persons healthy development that life lived with generational and/or personal PTSD could be. See more

18.01.2022 Featured Book of Poetry Horses for Courses and Other Poems Author: Graham Henderson Poetry and Song Lyrics 114 pages ISBN: 978-1-925707-14-4... RRP: $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Australia Graham Henderson was a man of many parts and this volume of his verse and lyrics represents just one. He was first apprenticed as a ladies hairdresser at the elite Georges store in Melbourne, but subsequently changed to earn his papers as a fitter and turner. As a hobby he rescued dogs from the Lost Dogs Home and trained them for stock work in the Newmarket Saleyards and then moved to rural Victoria working on sheep stations. At this time he learnt that the removal of his beard assisted in giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to fragile baby lambs. During his National Service in the Army he became a driving instructor for the 6th Field Ambulance based at Puckapunyal. Along with his wife Eve and their two daughters they moved to Esperance where Ganet was born. Farming and many other occupations provided the experience to write of the life of a rural Australian. In 1998 he was awarded the prize for lyrics by the Australian Song Writers Association for his Lingering Spirit. Enjoy. Carol Fossemalle

18.01.2022 Featured Book Title Release Easytimes Author: David W. Roberts Australian Fiction ISBN: 978-1-925707-20-5 414 pages... RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book The erection of a new retirement village in suburban Adelaide is proceeding well and an eclectic mix of retirees take up residence as the well-appointed retirement units become available. The kind of carefree, comfortably relaxed lifestyle that retirees look forward to is soon established and friendships are forged. There is even some late blooming romance. However, after a few months, strange and unpleasant things start to happen in the village apparently inspired by an ISIS sympathiser or operative. The residents become increasingly alarmed and the police are called in to investigate. They make little progress, however, and the seriousness of the crimes escalates culminating in a vicious murder on the other side of the world Author Bio David Roberts migrated as a qualified teacher from the United Kingdom. After seventeen years working as a teacher, deputy principal and principal in country New South Wales, he became a university academic. University appointments and consultancies enabled David to travel widely and broaden his horizons. Now retired, he lives with his wife in Adelaide. This is his second novel.

18.01.2022 Featured Title Release A Cloudy Path Author: Jenni Greenham Memoir ISBN: 978-1-925707-05-2 RRP $29.95... 616 pages Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book That ole Abbo, e got inside me head an screwed up me thinkin. The brief conversation with the transient Fella in the Perth caravan park sets a path to a future gradually unfolding over a decade and changing who Jenni and Pete are forever. That journey challenges their prejudices, their beliefs and their worldview. Who they are now is not who they were twelve years ago. A Cloudy Path follows their journey into the hearts and lives of desert Aborigines, sharing with them the harsh and beautiful Australian outback with its dusty red soil and inhospitable environment. They begin to appreciate the struggles of uniting two vastly different cultures and Jenni soon recognises the mismatch in the expectations of the Aborigines and our education system. As a teacher and eventually a principal, Jenni dedicates her life to trying to empower the children to raise the bar on their options for the future without devaluing their culture. Author bio Jenni Greenham trained and worked in various educational roles in Victoria before resigning to pursue other interests. Many years later she travelled with her husband to Western Australia where she accepted a teaching position with underachieving students in a hard to staff rural school. Her role changed when she took up a position as an ESL Visiting Teacher in isolated desert communities in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands of WA. Over the final seven years Jenni worked as a principal and her enthusiasm and dedication led her to present at workshops on Aboriginal education several times at district seminars and at a National Education Summit. Jenni felt compelled to share her experiences after returning to mainstream Australia and recognising the prejudices of many people who insist on pigeon-holing Indigenous people as lazy and worthless. This memoir is written in the hope that some readers may question their own worldview of an often-maligned people; the Australian Aborigines.

17.01.2022 Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds, Minister for Defence will formally launch our book 25 November from 5-30 - 7pm at the Cullity Gallery, UWA. Featured Advance Review Title No Bed of Roses -- Teo's Story... Author: Helena Bryndzej Studdert Memoir 330 pages ISBN: 978-1-925707-24-3 RRP $29.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia Sid Harta Book Launch and Review Updates at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sid-Harta-Book-Publishers/166770940410 About the Book And then came a very, very sad day for me 17 April 1942. In no bed of roses, Teo speaks his story of being taken from his Polish village and forced into labour in Germany during World War II. He recalls the hardship, longing for home and perplexity of having his life turned upside down. At fifteen, he struggles to cope with work, hunger and cold. He fails in an attempt to go home, sees the Allied Forces advance and at the end of the war, decides he cannot return to Poland, so he emigrates to Australia. Often the history of everyday ordinary people is lost. This engaging oral narrative is part of Australia’s shared history. Told with an endearing innocence and subjective humour, Teo’s account will resonate for all Australians and for the many displaced persons and refugees who have made Australia their home. About the author Helena Bryndzej Studdert served for over 20 years with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, including service as Ambassador to Serbia, Republic of Northern Macedonia, Montenegro and Romania and three years as Australian Consul-General in Bali, Indonesia. She resigned from the Australian Army as a Captain in 1986, returning to university where she gained a First Class Honours and PhD in History. She lives in Western Australia with her husband Martin. Helena enjoys spending time with her grandchildren and travelling. She also works on projects such as compiling an oral history of her father’s life; community volunteering; dabbling in art, walking and swimming.

17.01.2022 Featured New Book Title Release From Gallipoli with Love ‘Letters from the Anzacs of the Wimmera’ Author: Florence Breed Australian history 342 pages... 140mms X 216mms ISBN: 978-1-925707-35-9 RRP $29.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book It was the soldier, not the poet, Gave us freedom of expression. ‘Twas the soldier, not the preacher, Gave us freedom of religion. ‘Twas the soldier, not Trade Unions, Gave us better work conditions. And ‘twas the soldier made this country free, Not party politicians. Freedom from Want, Freedom from Fear, And Freedom of Speech which we hold dear. ‘Lest We Forget’ are words we say When marching every Anzac Day. So keep alight that undying flame To honour those who deserve great fame. Author bio Florence Breed lives in Donald, Victoria. An active local historian, she hails from Cornish stock and is the author of "A Devonshire lad : from Mullacott to Jeffcott", "Woodbine wives from World War I, "Donald duck country", " Forgotten heroes of the South African war 1899 - 1902" and "Old Cornish Tales".

17.01.2022 Featured Book Release: Once in Vienna - The Remarkable Life of Dr Siegmund Defris Author: Michael Pryles Pages 256 Biography / European History ISBN: 978-1-925707-33-5... RRP $34.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Vienna was a magnificent city in the last decades of the Austrian empire, a glittering centre of culture and opportunity. A young Jewish man from the provinces dreamed of a bright future there. He chose the new field of electricial engineering and became an immediate success. When the First World War broke out he established and commanded the Electrotechnic Group, providing electric defences for the army and all its electrical services. But the Hapsburg Monarchy fell and two decades later the Nazi German annexation of Austria posed an existential threat. This is the true story of Siegmund Defris, a man who was brilliant in peace and war.

16.01.2022 Featured Title Release Everything in its Place: How and why we create the patterns of our lives Author: Beverley Buckley ISBN: 978-1-925707-11-3 Genre: New Age / Self Help 430 pages Paperback...Continue reading

16.01.2022 New Title Release: The Legacy: Realm Of Parody! Author: Simon Travis Kavanagh Science Fiction ISBN: 978-1-925707-06-9 RRP $19.95... Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Brad Norris, an ex-soldier, has inherited a house from family he never new he had... his legacy. He entered the house and then found he couldnt leave. Now Brad has to solve the mystery of the house, battling the monsters and battling the feelings he has to another person trapped in the house, an occultist called Ami Wenlock. Can Brad solve the mystery? Or will he end up disappearing like all the others that have come before him...

16.01.2022 Author bio Robyn (Robby) J Keating had a childhood background of severe mind, emotion and physical confusion, leaving for the streets at the age of fourteen. Her education was mainly hands on learning, leading her life into a journey of many extreme ups and downs through three decades. She started writing poetry, lyrics and developing tunes at the age of twenty-eight, before taking on a new chapter which led her into the arts world, learning all about art and product. She has been writing poetry, blurbs, lyrics and short stories for the last twenty years. Robyn also has three children and six grandchildren. She resides in Moreton Bay Islands with goals of finishing all her creative works, bringing them all to fruition. Droplip took sixteen years to finish.

15.01.2022 Featured Book Title Release This Face Author: A.L. Bosco 140x216mms Memoir 266 pages... ISBN: 978-1-925707-42-7 RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia See more

15.01.2022 Featured Book Release: Fractured Trust Author: Mike Sabey ISBN: 978-1-925707-02-1 Page length 320 RRP: $29.95... Release date: 9th February 2020 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia This epic novel of passion, betrayal and bravery is based on a true story of the corrupt cover-up of a major fraud, which took place in war-torn England during the Blitz in the 1940s. A well to do Sydney family was rocked to the core after losing its hard earned legacy and the scandal almost brought down a blue-chip Australian financial institution. Some 80 years later, a granddaughter accidentally stumbles over the shocking deceit and exposes hidden truths that finally sees justice done. About the Author Mike Sabeys debut novel Fractured Trust was inspired by a true story. For over twenty years the author has written and published a long list of best sellers including nine editions of the Victorian Bike Paths Guide and also the NSW Bike Paths Guide, The History of the Brownlow Medal and the ground breaking Café Guide series. He has an extensive background in corporate marketing, more recently consulting to the manufacturing industry. For decades he was a top offshore sailor, becoming the well-known voice on the radio 3AW and ABC 774 of blue water yacht racing in latter years. Mike lives in St Kilda with his wife Sallie where they often head out to ride the bike paths and frequently escape on their yacht, cruising to Bass Strait and beyond.

14.01.2022 Featured Book Release Head and Neck Cancer: The Second Encounter Stephen McPherson 96 pages Cancer Treatment ISBN: 978-1-925707-15-1... RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne, Australia About the Book This book is to not only help those people undergoing or just about to undergo treatment for Head & Neck Cancer but the principles can be used for anyone undergoing cancer treatment. Stephen McPherson is a survivor of this horrible cancer, and in 2015 when Stephen was first diagnosed with Squamous Cell Carcinoma of a HPV origin, public awareness for Head and Neck Cancer both in Western Australia and Australia as a whole was very low, in fact non-existent outside of the medical profession. Fast forward to 2018, Stephen had his second bout of Head and Neck Cancer and unfortunately it came back very aggressively and resulted in Stephen losing 90% of his tongue and 100 glands from his neck. Following the extensive operation and chemo radiotherapy, Stephen searched for support to help him get through this. Unfortunately there was no support available in Western Australia. Despite raising this with a number of organisations, nothing was done. If there is a problem and nobody will do anything about it solve it yourself. Stephen started both the Western Australian Head & Neck Cancer Support Foundation, a charity based in Western Australia and the Perth Head & Neck Cancer Support Group.

14.01.2022 Yesterday’s Book Launch by Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds, Minister for Defence at the Cullity Gallery, UWA. Featured Advance Review Title No Bed of Roses -- Teo's Story Author: Helena Bryndzej Studdert ... Memoir 330 pages ISBN: 978-1-925707-24-3 RRP $29.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia Sid Harta Book Launch and Review Updates at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sid-Harta-Book-Publishers/166770940410 About the Book And then came a very, very sad day for me 17 April 1942. In no bed of roses, Teo speaks his story of being taken from his Polish village and forced into labour in Germany during World War II. He recalls the hardship, longing for home and perplexity of having his life turned upside down. At fifteen, he struggles to cope with work, hunger and cold. He fails in an attempt to go home, sees the Allied Forces advance and at the end of the war, decides he cannot return to Poland, so he emigrates to Australia. Often the history of everyday ordinary people is lost. This engaging oral narrative is part of Australia’s shared history. Told with an endearing innocence and subjective humour, Teo’s account will resonate for all Australians and for the many displaced persons and refugees who have made Australia their home. About the author Helena Bryndzej Studdert served for over 20 years with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, including service as Ambassador to Serbia, Republic of Northern Macedonia, Montenegro and Romania and three years as Australian Consul-General in Bali, Indonesia. She resigned from the Australian Army as a Captain in 1986, returning to university where she gained a First Class Honours and PhD in History. She lives in Western Australia with her husband Martin. Helena enjoys spending time with her grandchildren and travelling. She also works on projects such as compiling an oral history of her father’s life; community volunteering; dabbling in art, walking and swimming.

13.01.2022 Featured Book Title Bill from Bedellick Heather Duthie writing as Frances O'Brien Australian History ISBN: 978-1-925230-74-1... RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers Melbourne Australia About the Book Bill OBrien was born out in the country at Bedellick, past the village of Hall, towards Yass, along Spring Range Road, where his father selected land, as a pioneer of the area. His grandfather, John, arrived in Australia from Limerick, Ireland, in 1849 (approx.). Some of the families that settled in that area were, Brown, Butler, Flanagan, Gozzard, Harcourt, Hatch, Kilby, Ryan, Shumack and Southwell. Bills father, Matthew, was born at Ginninderra in 1855. Bill attended school at Bedellick, on the property of Fairview, previously named Cow Hollow. The school was destroyed by fire in 1904, the remains of the schoolhouse can be found today (2019) along Namina Road, although recently (2019), a large concrete block was placed there which obstructs the view of the remains. Bio Frances was born in Canberra and she spent her early childhood in the country where her father was a farmer and grazier. They later settled in Canberra where Frances has continued to live. She is the third of four children. During her school years she studied pianoforte and has always loved music and later studied the guitar as well as dance. Married young, as was the fashion, and together she and her husband have raised four sons. When the youngest was settled at school Frances returned to study and found work in the arts which she continues today as a volunteer. She has always enjoyed books and writing, seldom sends an email, preferring to write long newsy letters to relatives and friends scattered around the world. Travelled widely throughout Australia as well as overseas adventures, visiting relatives and friends,sightseeing and further study for her interests in the arts. Loves food and enjoys cooking, especially teaching her grand daughters.

13.01.2022 Featured Book Release Pathway: The Dyslexic's Tale Dave Crawford 348 pages Memoir ISBN: 978-1-925707-16-8... RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book In this autobiography Dave Crawford describes his family background and what it felt like growing up in England during the 1940s and 50s. A day-dreamy child, Dave was afflicted by dyslexia at a time when this condition wasnt recognised, his school academic performance dismal. At one primary school he effectively lost a complete year because he was seen as mentally retarded. Nevertheless out of school Dave pursued his own interests becoming a keen fossil collector and an active member of his local archaeological society. After two years at art college Dave migrated to Australia at age 17. He worked in a number of jobs including five years on a sheep station. Later he moved to Darwin and the rice research station at Humpty Doo and it was here he went back to school. Having saved sufficient money so as not needing to work for a couple of years he moved to Adelaide to completed his matriculation. He was then accepted by James Cook University and awarded a BSc three years later. He was to add a Master of Science and a teaching qualification to the list. Here are real life stories of struggle, rejection, innovation and at times very real dangers. Everything from a drunk with a loaded gun to an old car, held together with fencing wire, being driven across Australia. This is followed by a description of life as a university student and in the final chapter Daves encounter with his wife to be. Author bio Born in England, Dave Crawford migrated to Australia at the age of seventeen. Early employment included five years on a sheep station. Later, he became a field assistant on the rice research station at Humpty Doo outside Darwin. While there, Dave restarted his school studies, battling with childhood dyslexia. In time, he gained a place in university and later added a Master of Science degree to his Bachelor of Science. In the meantime, he married, started a family, and worked as a technical officer in agriculture research. Moving on, Dave gained a teachers qualification and taught high school science. His first teaching position was in the town of Hay, not far from where he mustered sheep all those years earlier. Later he moved to Canberra where among other things he taught physics at the college level. On retiring from teaching Dave worked into his 70s as a high school lab assistant.

13.01.2022 About the Book And then came a very, very sad day for me 17 April 1942. In no bed of roses, Teo speaks his story of being taken from his Polish village and forced into labour in Germany during World War II. He recalls the hardship, longing for home and perplexity of having his life turned upside down. ... At fifteen, he struggles to cope with work, hunger and cold. He fails in an attempt to go home, sees the Allied Forces advance and at the end of the war, decides he cannot return to Poland, so he emigrates to Australia. Often the history of everyday ordinary people is lost. This engaging oral narrative is part of Australias shared history. Told with an endearing innocence and subjective humour, Teos account will resonate for all Australians and for the many displaced persons and refugees who have made Australia their home. About the author Helena Bryndzej Studdert served for over 20 years with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, including service as Ambassador to Serbia, Republic of Northern Macedonia, Montenegro and Romania and three years as Australian Consul-General in Bali, Indonesia. She resigned from the Australian Army as a Captain in 1986, returning to university where she gained a First Class Honours and PhD in History. She lives in Western Australia with her husband Martin. Helena enjoys spending time with her grandchildren and travelling. She also works on projects such as compiling an oral history of her fathers life; community volunteering; dabbling in art, walking and swimming.

12.01.2022 Book Report - A Cloudy Path A Memoir by Jenni Greenham I was given Jennis book to read by a friend, and although I was not familiar with the subject, and it is a long book, I set off on Jennis journey into the lives of the desert Aborigines. Jenni has a wonderful way of describing to the reader the wonders and trials of living and teaching in the Australian outback. The people that she meets during her journey as a teacher in remote schools then as a Principle shows th...e dedication involved by the teachers, students and the Aboriginal communities. The cultural differences that lead to misunderstandings and her drive to better understand and help her students to gain an education that combines two very different cultures is heart warming to read. Jenni brings to life the amazing journey that she and her husband Peter undertook, the isolation, hardships and challenges they faced and the wonderful rewards that came out of them. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Marilyn Murie Beaumaris VIC 3193

12.01.2022 Featured Release Beyond the Silence Book Three The Nomads of Space Author: Dave Crawford Science Fiction ISBN: 978-1-925707-18-2... 360 pages RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book In the first two books in this trilogy, Zan Kovac was trying to uncover his late fathers secrets with regards to space aliens, hence the series title Beyond the Silence. Here in the third book, this theme is brought to a conclusion. A spaceship Hindel 59, that had been captured earlier, is used on a spying mission that goes disastrously wrong. When all seems lost, Zan is rescued by the aliens and with them as allies, goes on to play a pivotal role in the Battle of Connors Platform. Later hes involved in the first attempted settlement of Cyanagenta, a primaeval Earth-like world that poses real challenges to would-be colonisers. This story explores the weird outcomes of human genetic engineering. The Krarls, the clone warriors who threaten everything, and the Flavians with their infra-red vision. But also the culture and technology of the mysterious aliens of the Amaran Federation, the true nomads of the galaxy. This is a story of space travel, unexpected alliances and murderous treachery. It is a story of love and loss of monsters in both human and alien form and above all, the struggle for survival. Author bio Born in England, Dave Crawford migrated to Australia at the age of seventeen. Early employment included five years on a sheep station. Later, he became a field assistant on the rice research station at Humpty Doo outside Darwin. While there, Dave restarted his school studies, battling with childhood dyslexia. In time, he gained a place in university and later added a Master of Science degree to his Bachelor of Science. In the meantime, he married, started a family, and worked as a technical officer in agriculture research. Moving on, Dave gained a teachers qualification and taught high school science. His first teaching position was in the town of Hay, not far from where he mustered sheep all those years earlier. Later he moved to Canberra where among other things he taught physics at the college level. On retiring from teaching Dave worked into his 70s as a high school lab assistant.

11.01.2022 Featured Book Title Release Never Give Up Son Author: Mario Guerres Memoir ISBN: 978-1-925707-22-9 RRP $29.95... 326 pages Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne, Australiaq About the Book This is the story of a mother, who even with the loss of her husband to a mental asylum in cruel circumstances and death of her son, never gave up through the downfalls and struggles in her life during the Great Depression and racism against Italians at the time in New South Wales, Australia. It was not the life she wished for her son and she instilled in him the words, Never Give Up, Son. The book was intended as therapy for the author during his own downfalls and struggles in life, which included the loss of his business, homes and nearly everything else; but through it all he remembered his mothers words. This book is dedicated to her memory and struggle and what the author personally overcame in his. This story has something for everyone: theres racism, bigotry and you enter the dark world of societys underbelly. Some things may shock you and some may find it hard to believe, but it is true. It unfolds during the post WWII period and beyond and is about heartache, betrayal and injustice and depicts real life in Australia at that time. You will find inspiration from the story. Review: Wow, what a fantastic ride this book is! A sweeping Australian saga that encompasses poverty, racism, the Griffith Mafia, love affairs, marriage and children, boxing, a transport business, mental illness, all set against a background of a boys love for his mother. His father wrongly incarcerated in a mental hospital, his mother struggling to make ends meet, support from family and friends almost non-existent. Mario struggled with racism and bullying from white Australians, while at the same time coming up against a different sort of pressure from his Italian counterparts. Exactly how he survives all this and goes in to live a happy and successful life is really the gist of this book. A thrilling, emotional, absorbing tale that could easily be a new chapter in the Underbelly series. Denise Johns, Blackheath, NSW All that he went through, his mother was always behind him. After so many changes in his life, he made a name for himself in the transport business and got married. Now he can look back and say, I never gave up, Mum. Mary Violi, Melbourne, Victoria

11.01.2022 Featured Book Release Keep Pressing On, Brother Author: Noel Braun 326 pages Memoir ISBN: 978-1-925707-26-7... RRP $29.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Noel Braun commenced his working career as a country school teacher, then moved into a corporate career, which took him from Melbourne to Perth and Sydney. He has had a lifelong passion for writing and wrote the first words of his novels over forty years ago. After a busy career and raising a family of four, he has found the time in retirement to fulfill his long-held ambition to see his work in print. Noel has published two novels: Friend and Philosopher and Whistler Street. He has published a memoir, No Way to Behave at a Funeral which describes his grief journey following the death by suicide of his wife Maris, and two explorations of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela The Day was Made for Walking and I Guess Ill Just Keep on Walking. Keep Pressing On, Brother is the third. Noel is working on other manuscripts. He lives in the Snowy Mountains where he is involved in the community. He is a keen walker and enjoys getting out in the national parks surrounding his home. Author bio Noel Braun commenced his working career as a country school teacher, then moved into a corporate career, which took him from Melbourne to Perth and Sydney. He has had a lifelong passion for writing and wrote the first words of his novels over forty years ago. After a busy career and raising a family of four, he has found the time in retirement to fulfill his long-held ambition to see his work in print. Noel has published two novels: Friend and Philosopher and Whistler Street. He has published a memoir, No Way to Behave at a Funeral which describes his grief journey following the death by suicide of his wife Maris, and two explorations of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela The Day was Made for Walking and I Guess Ill Just Keep on Walking. Keep Pressing On, Brother is the third.

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10.01.2022 Book Report - A Cloudy Path A Memoir by Jenni Greenham I was given Jenni’s book to read by a friend, and although I was not familiar with the subject, and it is a long book, I set off on Jenni’s journey into the lives of the desert Aborigines. Jenni has a wonderful way of describing to the reader the wonders and trials of living and teaching in the Australian outback. The people that she meets during her journey as a teacher in remote schools then as a Principle shows th...e dedication involved by the teachers, students and the Aboriginal communities. The cultural differences that lead to misunderstandings and her drive to better understand and help her students to gain an education that combines two very different cultures is heart warming to read. Jenni brings to life the amazing journey that she and her husband Peter undertook, the isolation, hardships and challenges they faced and the wonderful rewards that came out of them. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Marilyn Murie Beaumaris VIC 3193

10.01.2022 Featured Book Title Release Stranded In Exile Volume 2 Author: McDonnell, A.L. ISBN: 978-1-925707-28-1 Pages 430 RRP $24.95... Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Dr Jemma Anderson is a respected Australian scientist. The idea of alien visitation, UFOs and time travel have always been, to her, a fanciful myth. But, as she hurtles through time and space in a massive spaceship, she is forced to re-evaluate. She had no idea she was born on the planet Anders Major but, rejected by Earth and unable to return to the war-torn Anders, she gratefully accepts the protection of the Inter-Planetary League. Arriving on Earth in the year 2099, she is shocked at the devastation caused by decades of war and sets about to help with the re-establishment, only to find that her mortal enemy Fredrick Pritchard has somehow followed and has formed an alliance with unfriendly aliens from the planet Ailazant. Pritchard and the Zants abduct Jemmas husband, Sean Bellamy. With IPL help, she travels across the universe to rescue him, but when their spaceship is stolen, they are stranded on the planet Condona, millions of light years from Earth. Author Bio The author, A.L. McDonnell is a medical practitioner and psychologist who lives in Queenslands Lockyer Valley. She has written many scientific pieces and articles for lifestyle magazines and, as a medical practitioner, has worked extensively throughout the outback which is home to some of lifes most colourful characters. Odd experiences are often the norm in the remote far west, and she was fascinated by the way individuals could spin their yarns, in pubs or around the campfire, turning ordinary events into something beyond this world and, even more, the many methods they claimed to have used to confront their bizarre encounters. Abandoned grew from such a tale when she was asked what she would do if a spaceship landed in one of her own paddocks For more https://almcdonnell.com

09.01.2022 Featured Title Release Cornish Tales: ancient and modern Author: Florence Breed 380 pages Full Colour ISBN: 978-1-925707-07-6 History... RRP $29.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Cornwall is cut off from the rest of England by the River Tamar which effectively makes the country an island. Consequently, its geographical isolation meant that Cornish people developed their own language, food and customs and regarded the rest of England as they would regard any other foreign country such as France, or Spain. However, there was something particularly unusual which distinguished Cornwall from all other English counties and that was its unique, immense, subterranean repository copper and tin ores. Unfortunately there was no coal under Cornish soil. For many centuries, even as far back as the time of the great Roman Empire, foreign ships arrived in Cornwall to take away its tin. There is an ancient legend (concerning the Hidden Years of Christs boyhood) which says that Jesus actually visited Cornwall with his uncle who was the wealthy merchant named Joseph of Arimathea. Jews came to Cornwall to trade for the precious metal and that is why smelting-houses near the tin mines were known locally s Jews Houses even up to the 19th century. Author bio Were your ancestors Cornish miners ? Then you may be interested in the following stories which describe life in Old Cornwall before that particular time when thousands of miners and their families were forced to emigrate after many of the mines closed down. Were your ancestors tinners, or copperers? It does not matter which because both types of miners toiled hundreds of feet beneath the earth for meagre wages to make the mine owners rich. My maternal grandfather worked in the Herland Mines (near Camborne) as a boy and then tried his luck as a young man in Salt Lake Valley, America. Later, he toiled in the cobalt mines of Canada. I was familiar with parts of the far-west of Cornwall as a child attending the village school in St. Gwinear and then I went to Truro to boarding school. In 1953, I began my teaching career in a little fishing-village by the name of Padstow, in North Cornwall. There were no boats in the harbour in those days because of the sand-bar. Both my parents strongly spoke the Cornish dialect of their childhood, yet the last time I visited the old familiar places in 2003, I did not hear a genuine Cornish accent anywhere. It seems to me that foreigners have completely conquered Cornwall. They have bought and modernised those humble, miners cottages, thus forcing house-prices up so high that the natives cannot afford to live in their own villages any longer. The Bad Old Days may have gone and housework is easier, but whatever happened to those honest Cornish folks with their hard-working and generous ways?

09.01.2022 Invitation to West Papua Event in Docklands MelbourneKerry Collison is the prolific, best-selling, international author of 'Crescent Moon Rising', the Asian Trilogy series, 'The Timor Man', 'Freedom Square','Jakarta' 'Rockefeller and the Demise of Ibu Pertiwi' and 'Indonesian Gold', GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Editor, South-East Asia. Many of his writings are about Indonesia. our close neighbour and 'best friend,' a nation he is very familiar with having once held citizens...hip. 'Rockefeller and the Demise of Ibu Pertiwi' is fiction but reflects very accurately the situation in West Papua and the growing momentum for independence. It reveals a fictional but very likely international power-play for control over the vast natural resources in West Papua - oil, gas and minerals. It explores a scenario where Australia is again drawn into military conflict with the Indonesian Motherland, Ibu Pertiwi. An important book, especially for the West Papuan independence movement as it vividly and eloquently brings the West Papuan dilemma to the attention of people who would not normally confront it.

09.01.2022 Featured Book Release The Dancer in Beirut Author: Thomas Edward Muller 140X216mms 430 pages Paperback... ISBN: 978-1-925707-39-7 RRP: $29.95 Fiction Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Daniela Meir discovers a secret at her solitary dreaming place on Mount Carmel, overlooking the port of Haifa, in 1930’s British-ruled Palestine. She vows never to reveal a silent voice that gives her advice or warns of imminent danger. Mature beyond her youthful and energetic nature, she dreams of taking a cargo ship to discover a world far beyond tiny Palestine. And where do they take her? Swooped up by a suave Czech bachelor, she sails away to find herself tossed against the brutality of Nazi Germany’s annexation of the Czech lands. An escape by cargo ship to Africa pits her against Kenya’s savage creatures. Soon, she is enveloped by the post-war realities of an ancient Persia struggling to modernise. Longing to return to her new Czech homeland, her world is turned upside down by a Soviet-backed communist coup in Czechoslovakia. She and her young family are now stranded in Persia as stateless refugees. Her ship of life sails onand her dance with destiny has barely begun About the Author Thomas Edward Muller has travel in his genes and writes for travel magazines. Born in Kenya, he later migrated to Persia, then Canada, and now lives in Queensland, Australia. Raised by his Czech parents in a multicultural environment, he is fluent in six languages. For 25 years, he was a professor of economic psychology at universities in Canada, Australia and Japan, before retiring to writing and adventure travel on all seven continents.

08.01.2022 Featured Book Title Release Kiya's Journal Author: Julie Priebbenow 90 pages Young Adult fiction ISBN: 978-1-925707-27-4... RRP $25.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Excited for the start of school life, Kiya was eager to make new friends. Hopeful to belong, she strived to fit in and yet she found herself an outcast, which threw her into an unlikely friendship with another outcast: a boy named Dorian. Now, Kiya keeps a journal which has become her safe place where she pours out her thoughts, feelings, and fears, as she and Dorian journey through the years of school together. Life is tough for the two friends as they battle their way through not only school, but bullying and mental illness as well. These battles could either draw them closer together, or pull them apart forever. Author bio Wife to a farmer and mother to an energetic and lovable little boy, Julie works part time as a hairdresser in their small town, and enjoys writing, reading, studying, and binge-watching her favourite TV shows! She and her sister were both home schooled, and Julie enjoyed a few years of Irish dancing lessons followed by joining the Australian Air Force Cadets. Julie then completed her Certificate III in Hairdressing during her last year of school. She is an introvert with a love for God and people, and enjoys helping others realise that they matter and are loved. As someone who has struggled with her own mental health, Julie believes its important to raise awareness for mental illnesses, particularly depression and anxiety. Her goal is to help other people realise they arent alone in their struggles, to love like Jesus, and be a ray of hope in the darkness.

08.01.2022 Reviews of From Technocrat to Leader If you have ever been thrust into that difficult situation of having to take on a leadership role for the very first time, and with little understanding of what that role entails, heres a book that has just come to your rescue. In Technocrat to Leader, Donald Gordon explains the difference between technical skills and people skills, and highlights how the ability to build trust, the capacity to develop an effective workplace culture and...Continue reading

07.01.2022 Bio Stephen McPherson comes from Mandurah in Western Australia. Stephen spent the last twenty-five years performing Occupational Safety and Health roles for various companies in Australia. Stephen started his own consultancy and built it up to include clients from all over the world. In 2016, Stephen started studying full-time doing law at Notre Dame University in Fremantle Perth. He had about twelve months to go to finish his degree, wanting to specialise in Safety, Worker...s Compensation and Industrial Relations. Before undertaking a job in this field, Stephen spent ten years in the Royal Australian Air Force as a Policeman, and this is where he gets most of his discipline, positivity and determination from. Stephen is the oldest of two children and is currently living in Perth. As a result of the cancer, Stephen lost his career, business and future as a lawyer. One thing that was lacking in Western Australia when Stephen started this journey, was support from external agencies and he had to rely on family. So, Stephen started the Perth Head and Neck Cancer Support Group and a head and neck cancer charity called the Western Australian Head and Neck Cancer Support Foundation.

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06.01.2022 Bio/Introduction For years I have had a wanderlust which has taken me all over the world, and have been urged so often to write a book, as the stories I related aroused a fascination in others, who wanted to hear ever more about my travels. I have found voyaging most rewarding, with few worries or unforseen expenses, even though I always travelled on a shoe-string with just a full backpack and die-hard self-confidence as my only security. This particular journey began (in Aug...ust 1980) and ended for me in Boston, Massachusetts, and is my account of a major expedition through Latin America in two distinct stages. The first part covers Central America, and after recuperating for a fortnight in Panama City the second part explores the great South American continent from end to end. If you anticipate travelling in Latin America, please be encouraged by this book. The countries present numerous challenges both social and natural. The very innocence of travellers in these corrupt and struggling countries is their own best security when faced with the peculiar demands of the various authorities. Apart from exasperation at the hands of crooked uniformed services, it is impossible to stay healthy for long with mediaeval sanitation and widespread sickness in every country. With common sense we overcame adversity and spent seven unforgettable months exploring remote areas as well as the more famous tourist spots, and took many thousands of photographs. I have been a conservationist and an animal-lover all my life and at different times I have taken care of everything from tropical aquarium fish to Himalayan mountain bears, and Mexican snake-eating eagles to Hamadryad baboons. The whole expedition through Latin America was a wonderful chance for me to investigate scores of exotic species of fauna and flora, quite apart from the indigenous Indian races, Mestizos, Caribs and Creoles, Whites and Negroes, with cultures and traditions steeped in mystery. See more

05.01.2022 Featured Book Title Release Dancing in the Daintree Author: Gary McKay 140mms X 216mms 330 pages Thriller - Australian Fiction... ISBN: 978-1-925707-37-3 RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Bob McTaggart returns from a tour of duty with his special forces unit in Afghanistan and his world is turned upside down. He tries to put his life back on an even keel only to find himself dangerously involved in the dirty and dangerous world of drug trafficking. McTaggart has to rely on all of his sharply honed skills to survive in the tropical rainforests of Far North Queensland and on the Great Barrier Reef. The prize is worth millions, but the deceit, betrayal and uncompromising greed by merciless and unscrupulous men and women make life hazardous for all who want to play in this deadly game. This fast moving, action-packed thriller will take you deep into the deadly world of organised crime where the only thing that matters is money. To dance with the devil is to engage in risky, reckless, or potentially immoral behaviour. To dance in the Daintree is to put your life in harms’ way where the slightest slip will bring an ugly end. Author’s Biography Gary McKay was conscripted into the Army when he was 20 years old. He served as a rifle platoon commander in South Viet Nam and was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry. He decided to remain in the military and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel before he retired after 30 years service. He served in the USA, Canada, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, New Zealand and Fiji. He is an accomplished non-fiction author with over 20 titles to his credit. He is Australia’s most prolific author on the subject of the Viet Nam war. He works as a freelance historian and author. He is a battlefield tour guide in Viet Nam, Gallipoli, Singapore and Guadalcanal. Gary is married and lives in Kiama, NSW. Dancing in the Daintree is his first novel and the first in a trilogy. Dancing is based on an actual operation that he was involved in during his Army service.

05.01.2022 Author Bio Alaine M Neilson is passionate about history, reading, art, theatre, the sea, and our place in the Universe. She has a background in education and design, and degrees in Literature, Visual Communications and a Masters degree in Writing. Are You Sure You Want to Know? is her debut novel. Born in Scotland, where she spent her early years, Alaine lived most of her childhood in Australia. She now lives on a bush property in South East Queensland with her husband and a family of wallabies.

04.01.2022 Featured Advance Review Title Nobody Chews an Oyster Author: S. "Jessie" Keyssecker Memoir ISBN: 978-1-925707-25-0 358 pages... RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book A funny and sensitive memoir about growing up on the semi-rural outskirts of Brisbane in the 1960s and 1970 and living and working in the Queensland Outback. From there to the opposite end of the spectrum and to urban Japan. Hilarious things happen when the assumptions we make are wrong. Come with me on this crazy journey and expect plenty of belly laughs from this easy read. With short anecdotal chapters, it is the ideal commuting or bedtime read. With few or no phrasal verbs, it is also a great book for readers for whom English is a second language. Author Bio Born in Brisbane in 1961, the author attended primary school at Serviceton and high school at Corinda. She studied Japanese from the age of twelve with the goal of teaching English in Japan. After working in the Queensland Outback she taught English as part of her work over five years in Japan. She eventually returned to Brisbane and put herself through university as a mature-aged-student. Her career spanned a very diverse range of occupations including executive secretary, copy writer and office manager for a Japanese language newspaper, head waitress in a Japanese restaurant, and treatment scheduling clerk for cancer patients. Jessie is now retired and lives in Brisbane with a rescue cat named Thomas. Her hobbies, apart from writing, include pastel and watercolour painting.

04.01.2022 Featured Title Release From Contempt to Dignity: understanding the intricacies of psychoanalysis Author: Dr Sabar Rustomjee ISBN: 978-1-925707-00-7 466 pages RRP $34.95... Subject: psychoanalysis Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Our vulnerabilities in life and the courage to face contempt All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 Article 1. Following the above can lead towards the development of fundamental principles in all forms of exchanges between individuals, groups, professionals, families, as well as during educational and organisational work. It is the basis of courageously overcoming inhibitions, resistances and anxieties. This restores freedom of thought, speech and human dignity. Acknowledging similarities and differences of race, colour, caste, economy, intellectual and religious beliefs is an important component of everyday life. Every human being is vulnerable without exception. Nelson Mandela, one of the greatest political leaders of our time, describes in his book, Long Walk to Freedom (1995), how at a very early age he played with a group of friends, trying to climb up and down an unruly donkey. Suddenly the donkey bent his head and unseated him into a thornbush. The thorns pricked and scratched his face all over. I had lost face among my friends. I learnt that to humiliate another person, is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonouring them. Loss of face in public is a manifestation of self-contempt. This book has provided examples of those who have been able to overcome obstacles in their lives by valuing truth, honour and compassion, leading to regaining self-dignity which may have been lost in the early years of their lives. Talented poets like John Keats, William Wordsworth and artists including Michelangelo, Edvard Munch, Leonardo da Vinci, as well as numerous literary geniuses of different persuasions. These artists are able to demonstrate contempt either through art, music and/or literature. They are also able to normalise an individual who is already traumatised by contempt. There are many examples given in this book which demonstrates contempt, which can either be seen by all or hidden secretly.

04.01.2022 From Sid Harta Publishers New Featured Title Release Graham's Story Author: David W. Roberts 364 pages... Australian Fiction 140mms X 216pp ISBN: 978-1-925707-34-2 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book This is the story of Graham, a nine-year-old lad living in country New South Wales around 1960. Life on the family farm is far from idyllic for Graham though, as he is confronted by a series of challenges; dealing with the realisation that he has been adopted, a difficult relationship with his philandering father and the tragic decline of the health of his much adored younger sister. And then there is the discovery of a mysterious man living like a hermit in Paddy’s Gorge. Fortunately, Graham is a resolute lad surrounded by a sufficient number of life-affirming adults and friends to enable him to overcome the many challenges life has thrown at him. Author Bio David Roberts migrated as a qualified teacher from the United Kingdom. After seventeen years working as a teacher, deputy principal and principal in country New South Wales, he became a university academic. University appointments and consultancies enabled David to travel widely and broaden his horizons. Now retired, he lives with his wife in Adelaide. Graham's Story is David's third novel; the earlier ones being One Thing Leads to Another and Easytimes.

03.01.2022 Featured Title Release Droplip: Take it or Leave It Author: Robyn J Keating 248 pages Self-Help Paperback... ISBN: 978-1-925707-10-6 RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Abook full of little pet loathes loves and funnies of the many different hiccups in life the everyday person may be challenged. From A-Z it can be said theres something in it for everybody. Whoever is reading this booklet, will be looking for something to grab onto. Human interactions have been questioned for centuries by all walks of life. Its not about to stop any time now. This is a collection of thoughts from the mind of a boggled-up, botched-up survivor-to-thriver who knows theres got to be some point to all this mish-mash we all put ourselves through. It will be simply dribble to some onlookers and if thats the case, well then, all hail thee to dribble. Droplip is a sign of strength in vulnerability. It means stop and think what made one drop ones lip. On writing this book and re-reading what was written, the writer had Droplip syndrome many times over, which lead to deep thoughts of unravelling messy compartments entrenched in the brain and emotion, leading to inner freedom where spaces within never expected to arrive at. Enjoy the crazy journey! Droplip what is Droplip? A Pommy reaction to Australian slang. Written from experience and observing whilst sliding down the razorblade of life, exploring those moments of extreme clarity that shake you to the very core. With humorous down under style, Robyn has created the definitive Haynes Droplip manual, packed with wisdom and wise counsel amidst the beach and occasional beauty, that is the human condition. I salute you. Mike LeFevre, Lighting Designer & Director, PBS Vision Ltd.

02.01.2022 An Introduction to Bernard Lonergan Second Edition Peter Beer 230 pages 140mms X 216mms... ISBN: 978-1-925707-36-6 RRP $34.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Bernard Lonergan was a mid 20th century Canadian philosopher and theologian. This book aims to help form a basis for inquiry into Lonergan’s achievement in his new approach to the great philosophical questions: what do I do when I know something? (cognitional theory), why is doing that ‘knowing’? (epistemology) and what do I know when I do that? (metaphysics). Lonergan deals with these questions somewhat more deeply in his major works, Insight (1957, 1992) and Method in Theology (1972, 2017). Here he invites one to discover in oneself the dynamic structure of one’s own cognitional and moral being and in doing this, one finds an operative procedure that is not open to radical revision. In fact, Lonergan has unearthed a dynamic, conscious framework for creativity, a method that grounds all investigation that is intelligent and critical. It is a resource that is transcendental in that it is the concrete and dynamic unfolding of human attentiveness, intelligence, reasonableness and responsibility, and this unfolding occurs whenever one uses one’s mind in an appropriate fashion. This method, for investigators too, is new in its finding eight tasks that are distinct and separable stages in the single process from data to results and can be adapted to any subject in which investigations are responding to past history and are to influence future history. About the Author Peter Beer SJ is Director of the Lonergan Centre, Canisius College, Pymble, Sydney, New South Wales. He joined the Jesuit Order, graduated in arts at Melbourne University, was ordained to the priesthood and pursued doctoral studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, graduating in 1972. He was awarded a travelling scholarship for postgraduate research at the Lonergan Center at Regis College, Toronto, in 197475 where he studied Lonergan’s seminal works, Insight and Method in theology. After teaching at the diocesan seminary in Melbourne, in 1976 he was appointed to the Union Theological Institute of the Sydney College of Divinity, where he taught systematic theology and methodology until 1998. He has published a number of articles applying Lonergan’s transcendental method. In 1979, he invited Professor Frederick Crowe, of Regis College, on a lecture tour to the Australian capital cities. After this successful tour, he invited others to join with him in setting up a Lonergan workshop that meets regularly for the presentation of papers and discussion.

02.01.2022 Featured Title Release Abandoned: In Exile Author: A.l. McDonnell 436 pages Science Fiction ISBN: 978-1-925707-04-5... RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Jemma didnt know that her grandfather was the Supreme Ruler of the planet Anders Major, or that she is now his heir, until she encounters Frederick Pritchard in the rainforest, a place where she has always felt safe. As she unravels the truth that Pritchard murdered her grandfather, and then her parents, she realises, to her horror, that Pritchard, and his rebel organisation, will do anything to prevent her from claiming her heritage. With the help of military man, Sean Bellamy, she discovers a plot that runs not just to the highest levels of government on Earth, but beyond, to the Inter-Planetary League (IPL), a group of aliens who have worked with Earths military for centuries but, while the IPL does all they can to help her, they have their own agenda. As Jemma is drawn in, she discovers that her future and the future of the human race on Earth still hangs in the balance. Author bio A.L. McDonnell is a medical practitioner and psychologist who lives in Queenslands Lockyer Valley. She has written many scientific pieces and articles for lifestyle magazines and, as a medical practitioner, has worked extensively throughout the outback which is home to some of lifes most colourful characters. Odd experiences are often the norm in the remote far west, and she was fascinated by the way individuals could spin their yarns, in pubs or around the campfire, turning ordinary events into something beyond this world and, even more, the many methods they claimed to have used to confront their bizarre encounters. Abandoned grew from such a tale when she was asked what she would do if a spaceship landed in one of her own paddocks For more http://almcdonnell.com