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Grace Pemberton is loved by two men, one her husband Charles and the other Ralph Cooper, her husband’s business partner. As a young married woman with two small children Grace is convinced to come to old Sydney Town in the year 1857 on the clipper, the Catherine Adamson. Good fortune shines down on them as Grace’s family is spared the disaster that beset the ship entering Sydney Harbour with more than half the lives lost.Grace is then pursued by Ralph as he has fallen hopelessly in love with her. She does everything to quell his ardour. Ralph is in a...

A Story of Persistence!

Come with Me is a story of true service to others in war time. Joan Fisher was only a young girl of 21 when she enlisted to become a voluntary aid. Little did she know that her journey would take her on a hospital ship, to the Atherton Tablelands and finally to Borneo where she nursed the prisoners of war after the war was over. Joan felt privileged to nurse wounded soldiers back to health with love and devotion. Life after the war was difficult for these ladies and settling down to civilian life took time. Joan finds love and...

My life has truly been blessed. From my wonderful family, my friends and my work colleagues, my life has been an incredible journey and one that I am proud to relate here.The journey has had its ups and downs of course, but one thing is for sure, there has never been a dull moment.There are many inscriptions on my parchment of life and they are all covered in this book – well nearly all anyway!As most of you would know, I am a straight shooter… I pull no punches… I leave nothing in the bag… and that’s the way I...

The Vietnam War on a Tourist Visa is a story from the Vietnam war as you’ve never heard it told before. Written in an easy conversational style and reading more like a modern adventure story, The Vietnam War on a Tourist Visa is the factual account of the misadventures of a 20 something Australian civilian who suddenly finds himself caught up in a contract with the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam in 1968. This is the autobiography of Graeme Mann who found himself being unceremoniously dumped into the middle of the Vietnam War in a most extraordinary position of responsibility,...

Flight to a Lady is a unique account of Arthur Butler’s amazing solo fl ight in 1931 in a tiny open aeroplane across half the world, with only the sun, stars, an unreliable compass and, on occasions, his instinct to guide him.The adventures and near catastrophies met on the way were a test of great endurance and bravery. (Anna Yeats)I had the privilege of reading this manuscript whilst Arthur was still alive, so am delighted that this story of blood, sweat and tears of early aviation has been published. (Nancy Bird) Buy it now!

Papua New Guinea, Milne Bay, Queensland, 1942-46 : No. 10 Repair & Salvage Unit, RAAF Unit history

When Peter Golding was first given the task of writing a daily column in the Melbourne Argus his aim, as he recounts in this book, was "to make it light, amusing, topical... a pleasant interlude before facing up to the politics and other crimes in the day's news; something easy to digest with the corn flakes or help to relieve the boredom of the train, bus or tram ride to work".This retrospect of his life isn't of course topical nor is it suggested that it could share space with the sugar and milk on the breakfast table but in his...

Crossing the Rubicon is a story of a Dutch-born Australian who cast off his European roots to begin  a new life in Australia. Arriving in 1951 with the required £100 landing money, a family, an innate merchant flair and an indomitable will to succeed, he single-handedly built from the ground a business that laid the solid foundation for what has become the largest importing and marketing business of international food brands in Australia. Simon Manassen was born in 1920 in The Netherlands. His parents were Jewish wholesale and retail meat traders and being the firstborn son it was expected of Simon...

In 2002, this book received the Alexander Henderson Award from the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies in Victoria for the best family history published in Australia and submitted for the award. The book traces eight full generations of the Body family over 300 years, and documents their movements all over Britain and eastern Australia, based on the recurring theme that opportunities are sometimes    born out of adversity. The story moves from its beginnings in Devon in 1700 to London proper, where, in 1849, the central character Frederick Body is convicted of forgery and transported to NSW on the ship Hashemy. Frederick Body’s sons then move...