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Greg Wilson is a first time author aged 71, who resides in the beautiful Macedon Ranges region of central Victoria, Australia. Leaving school early, soon led to a 20 year career in the Australian Army, spent...
Kieran studied philosophy in Australia, the United States and Germany in the 1970s and 1980s. He taught for a short period at the Australian National University, then spent nearly twenty years working for the...
Brian Robertson enjoys writing military-type memoirs. His main career was in Education, in Scotland, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and finally Australia. Since retiring, among other books he has written...
Mark Kelly is a Vietnam Veteran (VLSM, AASM, ASM, ADM, NEM) who joined the RAN at 16 years of age, discharging at 23 to embark on several other careers including the power industry, teaching and ultimately...
I have always dreamed of writing. Sometimes I find myself wandering around talking out stories. As a child I would write short stories. If I didn't let my mother rewrite them, she would tear them up. So, my...
Richard Grimmond was born in 1927. He is a retired principal of Finley and Port Macquarie high schools. Richard was a foundation member of the Port Macquarie Historical Society in 1956 and was Port Macquarie-Ha...
Lois Sonsie-Beel
M.A. T.Mus.A Singing, A.Mus.A. Piano Teaching. Dip.Theology.
Lois Sonsie-Beel has spent her life bringing music to many who may not otherwise have had the opportunity to achieve these...
Shirley Hughes celebrated 50 years in the opal industry in October 2013 (the month of opals). She has 55 years of experience and knowledge of the opal industry under her belt.
Shirley was first employed by...
Anthony Cooper was born in England in 1946, and educated there and in Paris, before joining the British Colonial Service in 1966. He spent his career with this service in Hong Kong before retiring to Australia...
Kathleen Frances lives on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne, Victoria. She has two children and a grandson. She has written three other books: The Adventures of Freddie Hobblesnobble, Tears in a Bottle and...
Bill Poulos is a former freelance features and sports journalist based at Moree in north-western NSW.
His passion is the thoroughbred racing industry, and he wrote extensively on this subject for numerous...
Sharron Spargo attained an honours degree from Murdoch University as a part-time mature aged student after spending three years recording Des Sullivan's memories of flying Lancaster bombers over Europe during...
Ewin Genghis endeavours to write informative fiction
that explores the deeper meaning of things.
The author has interacted closely with many people in a career as a biological scientist. Familiarity with...
Agnes Macmillan came to Australia from Scotland as a young child. She began her career as an educator of young children and progressed to tertiary education after acquiring a PhD. Until recently her writing has...
Bob, Rob, or Robert as his mother called him had his secondary education in Ballarat. Living in country Scotsburn he had to catch a bus to and from school, whilst waiting for bus he was often seen to be looking...
Dr Harry H. Krane PhD was involved in education as a teacher, counsellor, researcher, consultant and writer. He also worked in private practice as a psychologist. Dr Krane's background included the trades...
Christine Dodson lives in Melbourne, Australia and is married with one son who has multiple disabilities. She graduated in 2006 from Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in psychology, and in 2008...
Graham Sharpe has led an adventurous life, starting when he served with a "crack" special forces battalion and army intelligence unit. He has travelled the world extensively, lived in several countries and...
Terry Gardiner was born and educated in Sydney, Australia. He was a Science teacher for forty years, mainly in NSW, but for the last seven years in Queensland. He and his wife, Anne, operated a B&B near...
James Wilson is a retired administrator who has worked in communications, local government and health. He is interested in history and the way it has affected society, but particularly the part his family has...
Cristina Maria Borgia was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 19 November 1944 to parents Francesco (Italian) and Myrtle (Australian). She left school at fifteen after completing Year 10 because commercial...
Sadiq Awal describes himself as a real-life storyteller.
Born and raised in Bangladesh, he began his career as a marine scientist before joining a national university.
Since 1998 he and his family have...
Heather Butler has enjoyed writing pieces of poetry, some of which she has won awards for including a Henry Lawson award in 2015. She has penned several short stories covering a range of topics, although these...
Jasmine Hind was born and raised on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. She is an educator in Early Childhood and Education with hobbies including reading, writing, painting and many more creative things. When she...
Terry Richardson was born in Sydney in June 1955. He spent his early childhood in the New South Wales outback, including the tiny towns of Hungerford and Ford's Bridge. His formative years were spent in...
Greg Latemore is a University lecturer in leadership and human resource management at several Australian Universities. He is married with an adult daughter and lives at the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. He is...
This is my first book, written to ignite a lost memory. I grew up in 'God's Country' and still live in the shire.
On many occasions, I heard my mother telling her friends (while pointing to me): I never...
Frank Burkett lives in tropical Queensland, which is the setting of his second novel, The O'Connor Protocol. His previous novel, View from the Clock Tower, was shortlisted in 2006 for the British Crime Writers'...
After leaving school, Peter France wanted to become a builder and took on an apprenticeship, unfortunately though, the firm went broke, and he was out on the street. He applied for a job with a firm selling...
Bettina Brown was born in country New South Wales, Australia, and has lived in Newcastle with her husband since 2010.
She retired in 2020 and volunteers for Meals on Wheels. She enjoys yoga, lawn bowls and...
Alison Trimper has enjoyed a lifelong fascination with words, writing short stories, compiling family anecdotes and writing stories for children. Divine Hayfields is her first foray into the realm of published...
Warren Tapp is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and was a facilitator of their Company Directors Course for 10 years. He's been a director on 26 boards and the chair of 13. He has also...
This is Yvonne Phillips' first adult fiction novel.
She resides in Mandurah, Western Australia, between the ocean and the estuary. Yvonne lives with her husband of thirty years. Originally born in the United...
James Voûte is an accomplished artist who has progressed from painting to illustrating, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting in 1985 at what is now Curtin University, Western Australia, then a...
Dennis O'Bryan grew up on a farm in rural Victoria and joined Victoria Police at eighteen.
He completed twenty-seven years as an operational police officer, with uniform and plain clothes duties.
During...
Winston Churchill once said, "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
In recent years, I have been troubled by the news of human rights abuses that have been pouring out of China....
Trevor Brown grew up on the outskirts of Sydney, often helping his parents on their peach and plum farm while simultaneously studying to be a teacher. His first posting as a qualified industrial teacher, was to...
Mark Munro is a Queensland-based writer, musician, tropical gardener, amateur historian, and father of four. Born in Canada, he grew up in the forests of Manitoba before migrating to Australia in 1987. He has...
Bernard Marin AM was born in 1950 and graduated from the Prahran College of Advanced Education in Melbourne in 1970. He established his accounting practice in 1981 and currently works with the staff and...
Born in Dalby in 1947, David Wilson grew up on Mount Oscar Station just outside Clermont. Having matriculated, his initial instinct was to study medicine but when offered a scholarship in civil engineering his...
The author was born in Edinburgh in 1942, in the middle of WWII. An Anglo Scot, he joined the Royal Navy at the age of 16 and during his service, visited the Temple Of The Sacred Tooth Of Buddha in Sri...
David Gibson was a volunteer National Serviceman who served in Vietnam as a gun number with A Field Battery, 12th Field Regiment in 1971. Raised in a military family, his father was a 30-year plus career...
Ruth's paternal grandmother, Alida, passed away when she was two years old. Alida was a Swedish immigrant, who arrived in Australia in 1899 as a newlywed. She gave birth to her first child on the Western...
Greg Bruce was born on All Saints' Day and educated in Adelaide, South Australia. He attended Rose Park Primary School and Norwood High School. He acquired his medical degree from Adelaide University in 1970...
My writings record significant events of a lifetime and allude to historic happenings. I've referred to - 'DMC' (Father's) and the 'Campbells Down Under' books that lead into my era.
May we all look forward...
Teri Galea-Thorne was born in Sydney, Australia, but raised in Townsville, North Queensland. She graduated from James Cook University in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English. Teri has worked in a...
Phillip Rosewarne has lived and worked in various places on the east coast of Australia, his first job being for a shipping company. After working in New Guinea, Phillip was a project clerk for the Australian...
George Atkin and I were married in 1975 in Tawatana, Makira, after meeting at Wellington Polytechnic. He was studying journalism, while I was a nursing student. It was a profound shock to arrive in the village...
Ray Richard Lycette was born in Levin, New Zealand, in 1929. His father, Ernest, was an English coalminer who enlisted as a private in the British Army in the First World War and left as a captain. Following...
Chris Kirby-Ryan was born in Sunshine, Victoria. Being brought up in a family that owned several cinemas in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, her love of writing was triggered at an early age. Chris would watch...
Rosemary Duncan was born in Glen Innes NSW, the daughter of a widowed mother. Coming from a poor background, she saw the chance to better herself through education and, with the aid of a scholarship, entered...
Greg Booker is a Gold Medallion Surf Lifesaver with over twenty-five years' experience patrolling beaches in NSW (Manly) and Queensland (Mooloolaba). In that time, he has held roles as diverse as Patrol...
Bryan Keon-Cohen was educated in Melbourne where he still lives with his wife June, three daughters and five grandchildren. He graduated in Law/Arts at Melbourne University (1973); lectured at the Monash...
Robert Scott was born and raised in England. He did his military service in Cyprus and migrated to Australia while still in his twenties. Between many jobs, he engaged in a lot of shoestring-budget travelling,...
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...
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...
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...
Pete Dickson is an incredibly talented filmmaker. I have known him now for two decades and my admiration for his work and his immense artistic contribution to our country only continue to grow.
More...
Greg Reynolds joined the Royal Australian Navy at fifteen years of age to complete twelve months of schooling as a junior recruit at HMAS Leeuwin, Western Australia. After graduating from Leeuwin, he was...
Lorraine wrote this book to help her understand the innermost meaning of love and life. Her natural sympathetic ability with individuals helped those in distress to understand and control their problems, be it...
Sarah Martin can't remember a time when she didn't want to be a writer. As a child she wrote short stories for her family as Christmas presents. But it took a series of extraordinary events to jumpstart her...
Steve is a 6th/7th generation Australian, of Irish-English/German heritage, with training as a biologist, geologist, engineer and environmental manager, working over many years, across four continents. He has...
As I begin this journey and try to recall my past for good or bad, I am sitting in a Donga at a camp site at the top of Australia in a place called Gove (Nhulunbuy) in the Northern Territory. We are supposed to...
Craig Mulhall is a Medical Oncologist from Queensland, Australia. He is also an active member of the Australian Society of Authors. The lure of writing fairy tales - and a staunch love of classic rock - drew...
If only I knew then
what I know now?
The old saying is true - often we wish we had done things a little differently. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and looking at my life, there have been times of great...
Santosh Nambiar is the founder of the non-profit organisation Life a Meditation and Mindnoise Matters. Santosh is also registered as a mindfulness guide with the Meditation Association of Australia.
Santosh...
Francesca Di Pietro was born and raised in Melbourne where she continues to reside with her family. Francesca completed her Bachelor of Arts Degree with majors in Professional Writing and Editing and Communicat...
an Burrett is a retired Vietnam veteran. His inspiration for writing this book is his father, Lt Col Athol Frederick Burrett DSO MID. Of the 12 000 Aussies who landed at Gallipoli on April 25th and 26th, 1915,...
Sandee has worked successfully as a global coach for 20 years, working with adults at all levels within organisations.
It has been a dream of Sandee's, to work with children around similar concepts,...
Scott Sturgess has a short attention span. After graduating in Veterinary Science from the University of Queensland in 1968, he was conscripted into the army and served in Vietnam in 1970. He subsequently spent...
Kenneth Price is a retired Vietnam veteran. When he was seventeen, he enlisted into the Australian Army and was trained as a medic. He was sent to Vietnam in 1968 and worked in a field ambulance and field...
Beth Horvath has been a musician for most of her 73 years. In her younger years, she was an actress in amateur dramatics.
She now lives a quiet life in a small river town with ...
Ian Cordiner graduated as a Civil Engineer at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. There was growing political unrest in South Africa and he soon left for the UK to work on major construction projects.
...
Frederick Rogers grew up in Wales U.K. and migrated to Australia after WWII where he married and had three daughters, one granddaughter, and two great granddaughters. He settled in Sydney N.S.W. where he has...
Adrian is a screenwriter, actor and novelist. Born in England in 1955, he emigrated to Australia with his family as a child. As well as writing several feature film scripts, he has written a number of novels....
Marion writes fast-moving, action-based thrillers with many twists and turns. She is currently working on the final book of her trilogy, titled The Dark Illusion.
In her past life, she was a secondary school...
A writer and magazine editor for most of his career, Fraser Beath McEwing has been published in many leading Australian magazines and newspapers.
His experience in the Melbourne textile industry led him to...
It is a very personal recollection. It is written for the 7 Platoon veterans of the Korean War, and my Judy and our family as well. It tells the story of the veterans in their words as well as my recollections...
I've been getting things wrong my whole life. Getting it wrong doesn't bother me too much, though. Even experts get it wrong occasionally.
?Wrong always comes before right,' my shearing instructor would say...
Elizabeth Kempster hails from the island of Jersey, in the Channel Islands. She comes from generations of farmers and the land is in her blood. After her marriage Elizabeth emigrated to Australia, travelled up...
Bill Stanford was born in Orange, New South Wales and educated in Moss Vale and Sydney. He was a jackaroo at Mudgee, Coonamble and Armidale before becoming a driller in a mining camp in the Kimberley region of...
One-time jackaroo Michael Thornton describes himself as 'retired' or 'author', depending on who's asking. He's worked in fundraising, although ever since his years in journalism, writing has been a foremost...
Michael Le Page is a Perth-based first time author who, with his wife Maria, has travelled the world running marathons and ultra-marathons in a range of challenging locations including The Great Wall of China,...
In his early-twenties, A.C. (Tony) Smith made voyages as a ship's engineer between South-East Asia and the west coast of the United States and Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
A thirst to learn as much as...
Lomuro refers to himself as an international gypsy whose refugee journey took him and his family in 1992 from Southern Sudan to Uganda, Kenya, and finally to Australia. Blessed with the strong cultural...
David Carter is a retired tax accountant. These days he spends his time buying and selling antiques and collectables and one day he may actually make a profit. He also enjoys playing chess and reading. His...
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,...
Mary grew up in Melbourne, Australia. She has always loved reading books because they transported her to exotic places, introduced her to amazing characters and piqued her interest in page-turning narratives....
I was born into a middle-class family in Hong Kong. Being the only girl and youngest in the family, I was spoilt, especially during my childhood. Mum placed a lot of importance on my education and did not let...
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...
Michael Pryles AO PBM, is an international lawyer and arbitrator. He lives in Melbourne but his work takes him to many countries. He has held senior appointments with the United Nations, various universities...
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...
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!...
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...
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...
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...
Mario lived in society's underbelly, amidst the type of things one has only seen on TV. His true story is a brutally raw account of migrant life from racism to mental illness and beyond. Mario has had a gun put...
Alaine M Neilson is passionate about history, 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 Writing....
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...
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...
Born and educated in Sydney. Attended University of Sydney. Graduated with Degree in Social Work mid-1980s. Currently semi-retired and residing in Blue Mountains.
Being born female into a middle class suburban Sydney household in the 1930's meant being raised in the manner befitting a future wife and mother. Good deportment, correct speech and obedience were encouraged....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Call me Beba — my parents always did!
Beba is an unremarkable woman with a somewhat remarkable history. Born in former Yugoslavia in 1952, she moved to her beloved Sydney at age two, with her...
Mike Sabey's 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...
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...
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...
Donald McCrae Gordon is a consultant, author, lecturer and mentor based in Perth, Western Australia. He has held numerous leadership and senior management roles, has been a thought leader in several industries...
The author was born in 1948 and grew up in and around Army camps in Victoria and New South Wales. His final schooling was at Granville Boys High School where he was a member of the schools debating and...
Leanne Azzopardi is a Melbourne-based teacher, writer and mother to three young adults. My Gay Husband is her first published book, although she has written her mother's memoir for her extended family. Since...
Born and raised in suburban Melbourne, Michael escaped at the earliest opportunity to pursue his dream of a military career. He worked predominantly in military intelligence and his career spanned more than...
Bronwin Dargaville was born in South Australia's Barossa Valley in 1976. She studied science at The University of Adelaide and The University of Queensland and has worked as a research academic in a variety of...
What pleasure and enjoyment I have shared in raising three children and recently welcoming our first wonderful granddaughter into the family!
The author would like to be known as a positive, happy, no...
John Picken was born in Broken Hill where his family had business interests, and his grandparents had operated a Cobb & Co stage-coach station North of Broken Hill, until motor transport replaced horses. They...
The author was born in Scotland a year before World War II started, but swears she didn't cause it … In January 1968 she arrived in Australia as a 'Ten Pound Tourist' with her, then, husband and four...
I was born and raised on the Gold Coast, Queensland and my love of boats was instilled by the family before I could walk, as indicated by an early photo that shows me crawling around the deck of the family boat...
For Whom the River Runs is Wayne Pappin's first novel. The unfinished manuscript lay dormant for many years. Work and family commitments meant the draft struggled to see the light of day. Now retired, and with...
Peter Lascelles was born in Sydney in 1956. He is married to Sandra, has three children and five grandchildren. He lives on a small farm in the Paterson Valley about an hour west of Newcastle. Peter worked as a...
Bronwyn Holley is a New Zealander living in Australia who loves visiting local zoos that are home to local animals. She has combined this with her childhood passion for rhymes to create the Australasia Zoo book...
Jerry Brown-Sarre is the husband of Margie.
He is the father of the two young men and grandfather to 8 from their two sons With a Diploma of Law and as an expert in Road Transport issues, he now spends...
James Unkles is a military and civilian lawyer who began researching the 'Breaker' case in 2009 and had serious misgivings about the legality of the trials of Morant, Handcock and Witton.
James has...
Barrie Thompson is an author, consultant and trainer in autism spectrum conditions. Having witnessed the difficulties experienced by some adults and children when he served as a police officer, Barrie spent...
Leone (pronounced as in Sierra Leone) Purdy was born in Warwick, Queensland. At 16 she won a partial scholarship to study journalism, but preferred to live life and look beyond study. Working overseas and...
Gaunasala Ni Bula; the name is in Fijian. It means “Road of Life.” Why did I select this title? A real and very cold “road of life” inspired the title. This was the ice road that went...
Born in Melbourne in 1966, Natalie Vujovich (nee Pask) hails from a close-knit family where 3 of her 4 grandparents were teachers, instilling a love of learning especially with books and words. One of her...
Born in Switzerland, migrated to Australia in her mid-40s. Trained in various fields of alternative therapies and has successfully passed in a series of 'MIND OVER MATTER' (psychic energy) experiments led...
Amon Rao was born in the Fiji Islands in 1984 and obtained his primary education in Fiji and Scotland and secondary education in Melbourne. After completing a master's degree in commerce from Sydney University,...
Ana Mari Sanchez Brias was born in Manila, Philippines on 6 April, 1937. She married Jaime Calero Loewinson and graduated from 'Assumption Convent' Manila — American Education. She was caught in Manila...
Having spent most of her educational years in suburbia around the Newcastle region, Joanne Le Maitre became a farmer by default. After she graduated high school, her parents 'retired' onto a small property in...
Roman Semcesen migrated to Australia from Eastern Europe in the mid 60's. He is a family man who is married with two children and two granddaughters. He is a professional signwriter by trade with hobbies of...
While the fabric of my life has a few fancy designs woven through the cloth, the strong lengthwise threads express my ever-present desire to understand, to wonder, to find some meaning in this thing we call...
Warren grew up in the North Queensland town of Mackay. After his mother left home, he saw no future for himself in studying at school, living for the day and ignoring the future. He left school at the end of...
William Jefferson Killmore was born in Kempsey on 13 August 1935 and lived most of his life in the Macleay Valley, in West Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia. He left school at fourteen to work in the...
Clara Franklin was born in Poland and her childhood memories are not happy ones. She was only six years old when the devastating Second World War started. Her family was torn apart her father was killed and...
Eve Grafton was born in Western Australia and after her marriage spent many years overseas with her husband. They returned to Australia for their sons' education. Later in life they lived on a hobby farm,...
During his working life, the author had careers in banking, the Air Force and civil aviation. The Air Force was his primary career, retiring with senior rank to live on the Gold Coast. His experiences ranged...
Born on the West Coast of mainland New Zealand, raised on the East Coast. Moved to Australia at 20. Naturalised in 1986.
An incident of work caused me to suffer PTSD and have to retire due to ill health....
Ivy Edwards was born in Tumby Bay South Australia in 1935. She attended Ungarra primary school and then Port Lincoln High school. At high school, the noted author Colin Thiele was her mentor, helping and...
Susan has been an avid reader all her life. From English history, to the natural world to ancient myths, she is fascinated with the written word. She grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney and has travelled...
Leonie Johnson is married with two adult children. She began her working life within the finance sector and recently decided to follow her creative dreams. Her family is her greatest love and supports her many...
When I retired from teaching after 50 years in the classroom, My principal said of me — “Judith will always have her family, and the children she works with, interests at heart. I've no doubt these...
Glen Natalier was born into a closely knit rural community in the Lockyer Valley in Queensland, Australia. He chose not to stay on the family farm but completed the necessary studies to become a high school...
Darryl Bishop is a stockman. He is a jack-of-all-trades who laughingly says he is a master of none. He broke in a lot of horses at Brewarrina while moving mobs of sheep and cattle along the stock routes and...
Tom Henderson has lived an eventful life, during which he's been a university student, teacher, department head, school administrator, relationship counsellor, NPA Member of Parliament in Queensland, lecturer,...
David W Bastin is seventy-three years old. He has worked in various private and public offices but has always dabbled in writing. When he began his Bachelor of Arts, offcampus with Deakin University as a mature...
Mabs was born in Goolwa, South Australia. She graduated through Adelaide, Canberra and Bangkok and married Mick, an airline pilot. They then settled in the Middle East and had many Red Sea adventures before...
Steve Bakarich was born in Broken Hill on 12th May 1931 during the grip of the Great Depression. A restless brumby of a boy that wouldn't take a backward step in an era where work was scarce and a foreign name...
Robyn Locket grew up on a dairy farm in the Baw Baw Region of Victoria, where her father worked on sawmills in the surrounding bush.
When in the nineties, the Leadbeaters Possums were used in a campaign...
After having worked as a stenographer, bank teller and clerical and administration officer, Sybil Rowlands is now a retiree. She is married with grown-up children and has completed her Business degree as a...
Valerie Griffiths was born in 1935 in Sydney, New South Wales. After leaving home at the age of sixteen, Valerie commenced nursing at a private hospital in Chatswood before commencing her general training at...
Rick Hore-Lacy came from a privileged upbringing and attended some of Australia s top private schools. A second cousin to Kerry Packer, he bucked the tradition and stability of finishing a law degree and...
Linda Curtis lived the dream until widowed in 2008 as a result of Motor Neurone Disease. Having re-evaluated life, perspectives and formulated new future plans, she now lives in Rockhampton with her two teenage...
Nicholas Standish, of Russian descent, was born in Yugoslavia. In 1944, at the age of twelve, he was drafted into the German air force as a Luftwaffenhelfer starting in Eger, Sudetenland (now Cheb, the Czech...
Coreena Le Gallienne was born in 1960, in Melbourne, Victoria. Living on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, she has three children and lives with her partner, Don. She is currently enjoying working in the...
E. M. Miller lives in Melbourne. She studied Education at Deakin University and A.C.U Melbourne. No Freedom for the Heart is her first novel.
Born in South Africa during the apartheid era, Mala Naidoo worked as a teacher of English literature in South Africa and Australia. She encourages young people to be 'moved' by reading and inspires confidence...
Roger Mendelson was born and raised in Melbourne, which has been his home city except for three years living in the UK. He is married to Sue and has three adult children. He is the author of two business books...
George Hutchinson was born in 1930. He was educated at various schools in the western suburbs of Sydney. He left school at age fifteen and after several years of employment, completed an Arts Degree at Sydney...
Ted Day is a retired metal fabricator who has spent his whole life living at Lake Illawarra. He's worked for a number of companies that provided maintenance services to business and industry between the...
Lance Atkins was born in 1961 in the western suburbs of Sydney, moving to Western Australia in 1969.
Lance has been fortunate enough to see most of Australia and South East Asia during his prior service in...
Rosemary Holmes, a former Double Certificate nursing sister, was involved in the lavender industry for thirty-three years. She was the main instigator for the founding of The Australian Lavender Growers'...
Brett Hallam was born in Dromana, Victoria. He lived in Melbourne until he was a teenager. He then moved, with his parents, to East Gippsland where he still lives and works. This is his first book.
Trevor Barr is one of Australia's best known writers and commentators on Australia's media and telecommunications. He came to university life after a career in commercial publishing as Publishing Director of...
My experience comes from more than 45 years as a singer, songwriter and vocal coach. I have sung and performed live in many countries including Australia, Noumea, Tonga, Fiji, Vietnam, Japan, East Asia, New...
in so many ways, I, as the author, am similar to the character of Olive. I have been the receiver of much criticism throughout my life. A child's perception of continual demands for the required perfect...
Glenda Pearl Wise is an Artist, Illustrator and Art Tutor who was born and still resides in the Dandenong Ranges of Victoria, Australia. She has taught oil painting, watercolour, life drawing and mosaic for...
Russell Miles was raised in Melbourne, and long had an interest in writing, with various published short stories and articles about economics, public welfare and history. Russell has three sons. Their mother,...
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...
Paul Harrison graduated from Edith Cowan University with a Bachelor of Education in 2006. For the last four years he has worked as a primary school teacher in three different countries, with Bangladesh being...
Born and educated in Melbourne, Deb Campbell spent 25 years working operationally and as a research and policy analyst in intelligence, industrial relations and indigenous affairs in the private and public...
John P. F. Lynch has written several local history books and the history of his maternal ancestors. His mother's great great grandparents all settled in the Kyneton area of Victoria in the 1840-50's. He is a...
Kerry Sharman Hill served for over twenty-three years at the sharp end of Australian Narcotics law enforcement. He served with Customs, the Narcotics Bureau, Federal Police and Foreign Affairs, specialising in...
J Saunders was born in Western Australia, and grew up on a small property within the idyllic surrounds of Australind, a small farming and fishing community. Her 'Ten-pound Pom' parents raised their seven...
From an early life in the family's bakery in a Victorian country town, Ray King rose to become one of the biggest movers and shakers in the Australian corporate world.
During a thirty-year, often...
Elizabeth McCarthy (nee Jess) was born in Melbourne in 1960.
She studied visual art at Prahran College, Melbourne, graduating with a Diploma, in 1981.
She did further studies at the National Gallery...
Brisbane-born in 1966, James Martin graduated with a Master's degree in German literature and philosophy from Melbourne University. He has devoted much leisure time to the study of chess, while developing a...
Frank Spencer is a retired organisational psychologist. He has implemented organisation change strategies in many of Australia's leading organisations, has worked with world leaders in organisation development...
Rick has been an active bushwalker in Victoria and Tasmania for well over 50 years. He organised and led the 31 day expedition along the 400 km Alpine Walking Track between Walhalla and Mount Koscuiszko for the...
On retirement, Catherine Skipper returned to university to pursue cinema studies. She reinvented herself as a reviewer of film, drama and most recently, of dance, as well as occasional curator of art exhibition...
Kiri Tsitouridis was born in Melbourne, Australia. For several years during his early childhood he lived in Northern Greece. He has travelled to many parts of the world and his fascination and love for history...
Sotirios 'Sam' Manolopoulos was born and raised in a small village in Greece. He migrated to Australia in 1955 and embarked on a road that brought success and ultimately the opportunity to contribute back to...
Maria Demasi was born and raised in Sydney, in 1965. She grew up in a large, vibrant Italian family. A late bloomer Maria started her writing career as a children's author in her mid 40's. Not having any...
Elsie Bradley started writing when she stopped working full time.
During the four years she spent studying for the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing she wrote a number of pieces, until We All...
Addison Russell lives in Melbourne with her husband and Shih-Tzu Poodle and works in the education sector. She is inspired by her blended and extended family and likes to spend her spare time at the Murray...
Victor Bibby is a retired engineer and this is his first book. He started his career in the Australian Army as a boy apprentice soldier, became an officer, studied, married, had a family and saw more of the...
Born in England, David 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...
David Finchley was born in in 1946, in post-war Germany. He moved to Australia with his family at the age of ten. After completing school, he studied Medicine at Melbourne University, going on to specialise in...
Laurie Leah Levine is an International Speaker and Author of Spiritual Medicine and Blessings of Gratitude.
Laurie's main purpose in life is empowering others to live a happy, healthy and fulfilled...
Tim Lowe grew up in Melbourne and graduated in medicine in 1981. During the 1980s he worked in war-torn Belfast and in Australia as an isolated rural GP.
He started writing following some traumatic...
Ron Ward is a Sydney resident, he and wife Brenda live in a bushland suburb, in a house they built many years ago. Their son, an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales, also lives in...
Duncan Campbell was born in Scunthorpe in the north-east of England. He began his career as an apprentice pastry chef in the early 1970s. He progressed to Head Pastry Chef at the age of thirty-one, eventually...
John Considine (born in Melbourne, Australia) is a teacher of biology and mathematics. He is the author of a number of works of fiction, some previously unpublished, and has been a contributor to non-fiction...
Lawrence Pope was born in 1960 in the Diamond Valley which sounds romantic but wasn't. Married, he lives in North Carlton with his wife Megan and cat Mr Wallace. For two decades he has publicly advocated for...
Kerry lives in Merbein in Victoria's northwest where she was born and lived most of her life. She has worked as a bank officer, owner of a business and is currently working part time as a receptionist. She is...
Dawn Barr lives in a small rural town in East Gippsland. She writes stories for children, short stories and poetry. She has been a member of Writers Victoria for 22 years, ever since retiring at age 53 and has...
The late Dr Sandra Rennie was a remarkable woman who led an extraordinary life. She was regarded as a very private and independent individual with excellent capabilities and high intelligence. She achieved...
Broken is Gail Jensz's first novel. Gail describes herself as a quiet 'student of life'. When she is not writing, she enjoys long walks in the country, doing her art or simply reading or relaxing.
Gail...
Raymond C. W. Scott was born in Kent, in England and lived for many years in the Midlands near Birmingham. He did National Service in the Royal Navy and was later employed in the insurance industry in...
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...
An avid interest in Australian history and a chance family incident triggered a search by Leon Isackson and his siblings for information about their maternal grandparents. The more they researched, the more...
Robyn Neil was born in Melbourne in 1961. From early childhood she had a passion for drawing which continued on until High School. After leaving Technical College she worked at RMIT before leaving to raise...
Brian Smith was born and grew up in Melbourne, where he now lives with his wife, Josephine. They have two daughters and three granddaughters.
Brian began his professional career as an engineer and finished...
A deep thinker since childhood, Carlo Fraiia has been extremely connected and perceptive of the world around him throughout his life. He lives in Warrandyte, Melbourne, Australia. Secrets of Happy People is his...
Rocky Dabscheck was born in Melbourne's CBD. Tested at birth, and found to be allergic to money, his destiny was mapped out before he'd uttered his first word. A musician/songwriter he would be.Well known as...
Dr Martin Cole brings a common, often humorous touch to complex issues so they can be enjoyed by the general reader. Bringing to bear his wide interests including graphic art, astronomy and science, he holds a...
Vivian was born in Egypt in 1945. Her parents were part of the large community of British/European settlers who lived in the country before the outbreak of World War Two. Vivian's father served in the RAF....
Steven Sculli is a first generation Australian, his parents having immigrated to Australia in the 1950s from Southern Italy.
Leaving school at the age of eighteen, he worked for several years in the...
B.K.McDonald was born and raised in rural Victoria, Australia, and now lives in south east Melbourne.
I am currently 53 years old. I never married but came out as a lesbian about thirty years ago. I chose to have a career and a child. As a result of my lifestyle, My sixteen-year-old daughter has experienced...
Liz Newton was born in Australia, has three adult children and currently lives in Sydney with her husband and dog.
Extensive travelling including road trips across continents, sailing adventures and...
Born in Ireland J. A. O'Brien started his working life as a bricklayer and has worked at that trade in Ireland and Britain and for a short period in Australia. His passion for writing gained him tertiary...
Kevin McGrath is Sydney born. In the early part of his life he became intensely interested in sports ? rugby, football and athletics. He won Eastern Suburbs Junior 880 Yards Championship in his...
Dr. Laurie Jo Moore graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with Distinction in 1969 during the height of the student resistance movement to the war in Vietnam.
She completed medical...
Recently retired from a life-time of teaching, Di Perkins has embarked on collating stories from remarkable young people who have a strong story to tell. As an historian, this was a natural direction to choose...
Professor Niyi Awofeso has been researching terrorism since 2000. He pioneered scholarly publications on the links between the Almajiri heritage in northern Nigeria and terrorism. Since graduating from Obafemi...
Finally in remission after having been diagnosed with cancer during a twenty year career with a leading Australian financial institution, Phillip now divides his time between pursuing his interests in fiction...
Moving from Queensland to New South Wales in her early twenties, Cleo Lynch married and raised a large family. To further her education, she completed a Bachelor of Arts in English literature at Macquarie...
Ian Ingleby is retired after a varied career in perception management in Australasia.For nearly two decades he was attached to a US-Australian public relations group servicing foreign governments and strategic...
Although born and reared in Ireland, Seán spent his mature life in Australia. He has undertook quite a few adventures in his time including a horseback trip through far north Queensland, even though initially...
Christine Perrott is a retired senior lecturer in teacher education and lives on the New England Tablelands in the regional city of Armidale, NSW, renowned for its education facilities at all levels. Her...
Katie's father was a bank manager so she had the delight of growing up in grand residences of various country towns in NSW and the inner west of Sydney in the main street. She knew very little of suburbia until...
Moira McCarthy is an Australian teacher and photographer who regularly visits Paris to maintain her passion for French language and culture. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University...
Anthony Jansen holds a degree in Science and a PhD in the field of Cognitive Science. For as long as he can remember he has been fascinated by science and technology, and in particular the impact, both intended...
Born in Tasmania, Australia, in 1957, Mark Heyward has spent the last twenty years living, travelling and working in Indonesia. He currently lives in Lombok with his wife and two children, and divides his time...
Rhonda Schwab was born in 1947 in Burwood Victoria, and attended primary and secondary schools in Ashburton and Ashwood, respectively. Rhonda worked as a dental nurse for some time and she also took on some...
Dr. Bill Perkins is a geologist who worked for Mount Isa Mines Ltd for twenty-eight years. During his employment in Mt Isa, he took out the ground for the lucrative gold mine, Tick Hill. Gaining his Masters and...
Kathy Wright who, in 1968 was 24, kept a frank and meticulous diary. It is an absorbing, amusing and exciting story of the epic journey across the world of two young and very naive people.Kate is a fit and...
Michael Muhling was born in Perth in 1971. He began reading The Lord of the Rings when he was ten years old, and has been a fan of Tolkien ever since. Mike subsequently became an avid reader of the fantasy...
Christine Baxter migrated to Australia from the UK with her parents and three siblings in 1957 and eventually settled in Melbourne, Victoria. She became a teacher of children with a disability, first...
I was born in Murwillumbah in 1958. When I was thirteen, I was diagnosed with scoliosis. There my schooling ceased as I went into hospital. After my operations and treatment I came out at the other end aged...
My name is Maria Dowd and I am the author of Pumpkin Puppy. I have a step-daughter who is 14, a six year old daughter, a 14 month old son and a 11 week old baby girl. To say my life is busy is an understatemen...
Born in 1952, Margaret emigrated with her family from England in 1961. Her work-life has varied, including many years as a graphic designer in the textile industry, a commissioned artist in oils and other...
After significant teaching and leadership experience within Australian education, Henry Blyth turned to the not-for-profit sector as the head of an organization serving the disadvantaged. A second school...
t is now 2016 and I have recently retired from the Victoria Police Force after nearly thirty years of service. I have enjoyed much of my time during these thirty years and believe the police force is a great...
Exposed to a world of art, music, literature and history at a very young age, the author has embraced these elements as part of life and work. They have been essential components of harmony and balance. All...
Our life is a work in progress. We grow, we learn, and eventually we settle. Or do we? Do we ever really settle? We’re constantly re-evaluating our careers, relationships and finances. We pay off our houses,...
Nicholas was born in 1985 in Bendigo, Victoria, and has dreamed of being a famous writer for many years.
He lived his early years on a farm outside of Boort, Victoria, and went to the local primary...
Chris Jones was born in Malaysia, and travelled the world thanks to the Royal Australian Air Force. He eventually settled in Canberra to do the Professional Writing Course at the University of Canberra where he...
Koo Metcalf was born in Melbourne and is the Mother of two precious daughters. As a young adult Koo studied Professional Writing then continued her studies and completed a Bachelor of Education. Koo taught...
Melbourne writer Jeremy Dickey never planned to be an author. In school, he learned to write only by disregarding everything the teachers taught him, lending his work to be different to everybody else’s. He...
Jeff Self is a first-time author with a professional background in medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy. He retired to support his family, to sail and now to write. He has two sons and several grandchildren,...
Rosie Abbott lives beside the Gippsland Lakes in Eastern Victoria. Prior to this, she lived in Callignee, in the Strzelecki Ranges, Gippsland. These locations have deepened her lifelong interest in landscape...
The author is a retired electrician who is married with four children and three grandchildren.
His early working life was spent in electrical installation work. He later moved into building services...
Colin Foley was born in Horsham, Vic, on Christmas Eve 1945, just after the end of WW II. His family subsequently lived in rural Castlemaine, before moving to Melbourne's eastern suburbs.
Colin gained...
In The Longest Journey: finding the true self Amanda Stuart describes how her clients have overcome a range of emotional difficulties, including anxiety and depression, to find ‘the true self’ and...
A very boring man having an unusual midlife crisis.
OR maybe less true is:
Peter Fitzgerald is a businessman with a passion for science. He has degrees in economics, accounting and physics.
Graham Butchart is currently working on the sequel to Acrobats of Reason.
Irene Drummond, born in 1931, has spent all but eight years of her life in the Swan Hill district, and currently lives in ‘a writer’s paradise – a little old farmhouse, down a no-through road, a leisurely...
John McDermott, approaching his three score and ten years, has lived long enough and had enough experience to write this book.
At the commencement of his twenty years’ experience as a director...
AT Ongan is an emeritus academic and still teaches in various forums. She is the author of three textbooks in developmental psychology. She lives in Sydney with her family and Simba, her cat. Turquoise is her...
Dr. Victor Chircop Sullivan is regarded as one of the leading personalities in both the architectural and neuro-psychology professions. He is the author of a number of articles and books on both architecture...
Marty Doyle has worked in the media for over thirty-six years as a number-one-rating radio announcer, TV presenter, award-winning program manager, advertising consultant and sales manager.
In recent...
Hadassah Pomeroy was born in Tel-Aviv in Israel and is married with three children.
She served with the Israeli Air Force for two years. Hadassah speaks five languages.
Hadassah resided in...
Joan Krohn was a teacher for many years and has travelled extensively. She has always taken a keen interest in history, art and music; for years sold her paintings at art shows under her maiden name of Hughes....
The author was born in England, Rochdale, Lancashire and was educated in Sale, Cheshire. Impelled by the necessity to start work and frustrated in attempts to obtain a journalism cadetship, he decided to become...
Geraldine Wooller lives in Perth. Since 1980 she has published short stories, essays and two previous novels. Her novel The Seamstress was shortlisted for the 2008 Inaugural Barbara Jefferis Award, for the 2008...
Riding the Rough Road is a compilation of short stories I have written over the past 15 years. They were originally written for my nephews and nieces, to sate their unquenchable curiosity about my life in the...
Mary Rawson grew up in Nelson, New Zealand. She has written short stories, fairytales and poetry privately for years. Mary enjoys her family, her friends, playing the violin, writing, cycling, motorcycling and...
Bonita Gail was born 1970 in Orbost, the corn capital, East Gippsland, Victoria and spent the first twelve years growing up in Cabbage Tree Creek, a tiny blink and ya miss it town thirty minutes north along the...
Reg Mounsey was born in Bentleigh, Victoria in 1926. When his mother died, Reg was placed in a Methodist Babies and Children’s Home at three and a half years of age together with his two older brothers and...
Geoff Cain has spent most of his working life in the electronic security industry in Melbourne, Australia. He and his wife moved to South Gippsland, Victoria in 2000 and now own a farmlet based on a self-suffic...
BD Sheidow lives on the lower North Shore of Sydney. While researching this book over the last twelve months, it became clear what is shown in a court of law is merely the tip of the iceberg, often hiding the...
Walter Edward Mickleburgh was born in 1922, near Didcot, Berkshire, England. He studied medicine at Alberdeen University and then practiced as a family doctor for five years in Yorkshire. After developing an...
I was born in Tasmania, Australia, and attended Devonport High School and Don College. I spent my recreational hours playing hockey and bushwalking. I have worked for the Royal Life Saving Society as a swim...
Paul Desmond Ruse was educated mainly at Perth Modern School and the University of Western Australia. During World War 2 he served for four years in the army and the air force. After the war he taught chemistry...
George Wood, a graduate of the University of Melbourne, was a teacher of Physics and Mathematics to senior secondary students. During his teaching years he was involved in teaching organisations (from 1972 to...
During her professional career the author has worked in the Fashion and Executive Search Industries in Australia and Hong Kong. Based in Hong Kong during the pro-democracy movement in China in the late 1980s...
Anastasia Gessa-Liveriadis was born in 1935 in a provincial town in Western Macedonia but has lived in Melbourne, Australia since late 1959. She graduated from the Advanced School of Public Health in Athens in...
Al Cochrane has a BA in English literature from La Trobe University. He has had a variety of jobs and is currently working as a backstage technician in theatres around Melbourne.
Katherine Suardana lives in Brisbane Australia with her husband Nik and three children Bass, Sam and Elly.
Titan and His Troupes is her first children’s book inspired by her own children and the...
I was born in Sydney in ’63, but now reside in Brisbane. Around State of Origin time, I support the Caneroaches, or the Cocktoads. I was an avidly keen sporting type up until the moment I was bitten by...
Stephen Chong is a professional development coach, keynote speaker and author, and has been practising his craft for over twenty years. During that time he has been fortunate to assist many hundreds of people...
Kellie Lacy was born and lives in Melbourne, Australia. Ramblin’ Rose is her first novel.
Born in Perth, Western Australia in 1982, Kristy Berridge was ushered into the world in a decade of bad hair, parachute pants, and blue eye shadow. Fortunately, she managed to avoid all three influences by...
Anthony La Riccia was born the second eldest in a family of six boys. While growing up, he developed an interest in reading everything from cookbooks and true crime to romance and adventure stories. His...
Sreng Ngo was born in Cambodia in 1972 during the rise of Pol Pot and the Vietnam War. In 1974 he and his family fled from Cambodia and went to live in Vietnam due to difficult circumstances. Around the age of...
Co-author biography-Of Norwegian extraction, Freya Sundt was born in England in 1958. Growing up in the country in a very equine-oriented family, Freya’s passion for riding initially took her into a...
Joe Reich is an ophthalmologist practicing in Melbourne whose past writing has mostly been technical in the field of medical education or in preparation for a number of comedy debates. Shortlisted in the...
Marian Penman spent an idyllic childhood in rural England. She trained as a teacher but considers her main career to be raising her four children. She lived for many years in Johannesburg and now resides in...
Jeff Lynch is a retired Australian art teacher, film and beer buff whose inquiring mind, thirst and wanderlust led him on a quest for the legendary Berggeist, the German mountain spirit of the wilderness. These...
Born in Germany, now living in Melbourne.
Writer, Director, Teacher of Theatre.
Danielle Weiler is an innovative history teacher living in Perth, Western Australia. She is inspired every day by teenagers who are trying to find their unique identity in life. A serial diary writer, Danielle...
Bill Wakeling is a former speech writer, electorate secretary to a Cabinet Minister and political activist. Originally from the Sydney seaside suburb of Manly, he lives in retirement in Templestowe, Victoria.
Lilian Clavell was born January 1954 and has lived in Adelaide all her life.
She worked for a plastics company for 28 years, starting as a press operator and training over the years, driving a...
Joan Beckwith grew up in Melbourne during the 1950s and 60s as the child of Irish-Australian parents. She returned to study in the 1970s, grateful to Gough Whitlam for abolishing university fees, lectured in...
Ruth Carson, born in England before the Second World War, emigrated to Australia in 1982 via Scotland and Canada. She completed her education at the University of London with a degree in sociology and later,...
Noel Huggett was born in Tamworth, New South Wales, in 1921 and grew up in Goulburn. At the age of twenty-one he joined the Second AIF at Sydney and ended up in the fighting at Bougainville in 1944. After the...
Christine de Matos is a research fellow in the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS) at the University of Wollongong and has been researching the role of Australia in the Allied...
Ann left a nursing career to marry a farmer and spent many years with her growing family on the tablelands of northeastern Victoria at Strathbogie. A desire to learn the art of pottery led her through a...
Patti Smith lives with her husband in Brisbane. They have three children and their grandchildren are the light of Patti’s life.
She always wanted to write about her large, Irish Catholic family but could...
Karen Laura-Lee Wilson was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1942. Her family moved to Australia when she was five. She was educated in Brisbane and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Queensland...
After three decades of teaching and educational administration Jack Hoadley retired from his position as Chief Planning Officer of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and offered consultancy services to...
Sundram is a Professor of Rural Health with Emotional Well-Being Institute, Geneva, Switzerland. He is invited to sit on several boards. He was awarded the Centenary Medal by the Australian Commonwealth...
Tony Green was born and raised in the Black Country, West Midlands. Over a fifty-six-year working life, he has had well over one hundred different jobs, including forge worker, rigger & scaffolder, miner,...
Margaret Reid is a sixty-seven year old music teacher living in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Her interests and ambitions altered constantly over the years with the changing circumstances of her...
Garry Boyd was born in Sydney in 1945 and attended Fort Street Boys High School. He has a Bachelor of Business Degree from Charles Sturt University and an Associate Diploma in Productivity Management from...
Christine McCaffrie was born in Braidwood NSW. She lived there until the age of fourteen when her family moved to Canberra, where she completed high school. A teaching career that followed saw her working in...
Dennis Nelson is married and has six adult children. He lives in Australia on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a former teacher who worked for a time in both Africa and...
Isolde Martin was born in Germany, in a small town right on the border of Austria, and on the banks of the Danube. She spent her childhood in the Bavarian countryside on the northern edge of the Alps. In her...
Stephen Tandori was born in 1936 in Metkovic, Yugoslavia and arrived in Australia in 1959 as a political refugee. He had various jobs for a year or two before taking up picture framing and art restoration as...
Ant Dry was born in Salisbury Southern Rhodesia, spent the first 23 years of his life in Rhodesia and most of the next 26 years in Zimbabwe. He now lives in Australia with his wife and four children.
I am a family man. I met my life mentor when I was twenty-three. That’s when the trouble started. He was a man who believed all religions have a common goal of good and that the development of the...
Christine Knight is a secondary teacher of English and Drama. She has taught in Australian schools in a number of states and territories. She lived in Alabama and Texas for a number of years. In addition to In...
When Leigh van den Broeke began writing When the Gates open for Casey Vallen in the backseat of his car while on his lunch break at work. He had recently completed a Media degree and after taking a job...
John Frisina came to Australia in 1955. Although his father was a successful hairdresser and the family lived well, John left Italy because he grew tired of what he felt was misguided respect...
Brian McFarlane has had overlapping careers as secondary-school teacher, academic and writer. He is now Adjunct Associate Professor attached to the English Department of Monash University where he taught for...
From scalping cinema tickets with his fellow gang members on the streets of the former Yugoslavia, to becoming one of South Australia’s most respected and experienced interpreters, Michael Gostich’s...
Ross Isaacson was born in 1944 in the Riverland district at Waikerie on the River Murray in South Australia, and was his fathers gift to his mother after his return from a very short war service.
Ross...
Scott Jordan resides in Melbourne’s north as a single father, sharing parental custodianship of his two school age children, Stephanie and Paul.
A licensed plumbing practitioner, he has amassed...
Growing up in an orphanage and raised by strict Dominican nuns didn't prepare Anne well for the realities of life. But overcoming the continual threat of fire and brimstone, she escaped in her teens into an...
Val Wake says he took up journalism because he was sick of secrets. His father was a foundation director with ASIO. Wake started his working life as a copy boy with the Sydney Daily Telegraph. At 20 he moved to...
Ray Johnston is a consultant who teaches EFL and designs training programs. He holds Masters degrees from Macquarie and Sydney universities. An experienced technical writer, Ray continues to develop his...
Vicky Legge serves as a singles ministry leader in her local church, and has a passion to see single and single-again adults connected in healthy relationships with others and with God. Her zeal stems from...
John Newman was born in England in 1937. Secondary Modern was as high as his education took him. A brief stint at farming, in his native Essex, was followed by four years in the Royal Air Force, where he saw...
Dion Danalis is a veterinary surgeon who went straight from university one week after graduation to start a rural practice in country Victoria.
After seven years he sold out and moved back to Queensland...
Ann Massey was born in England but moved to Perth as a teenager, where she had a varied career working in education, newspapers and hospitality. Working first as marketing manager of Community Newspapers and...
After many years working as a solicitor in a one person practice in Mt Eliza, Victoria, the author retired a few years ago to stay at home with her husband who was suffering from dementia. Eventually he entered...
Helen Ross was born in Edinburgh, in 1921. Although Scottish by birth, she spent most of her early childhood in the windswept Shetland Islands — “The Land of the Midnight Sun” — far from...
Trish Francese-Hunt is retired and lives with her husband in Melbourne. This is her first novel inspired by her Italian heritage.
Janey Howe was born in Sydney-Australia and raised in both Canberra and Western Australia (Perth and Margaret River).
She has previously run her own pet care/cleaning business and also worked within...
Jerome Parisse was born in France, where he developed a love for language, literature and good food. In his early thirties, he moved to Australia where he is now based.
Jerome studied acting in Sydney...
Alan Duncan was born in South Africa in 1950. After completing his national service, he graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1973. He moved to Australia in 1977 and lives in...
Steve Jovanoski is an Australian born writer who lives and works in Melbourne. At the age of one, his parents took him and his older brother back to their native country of Macedonia (then Yugoslavia), where...
Sylvia Story is a natural born storyteller not given to navel gazing. She has travelled widely throughout Australia and uses her knowledge of this country as the backdrop for The Red Witch. She...
Laurie Barber has had a distinguished career as a journalist.
After completing his schooling at Newcastle and Quirindi, he worked with The Inverell Times (four times), the Maitland Mercury, Sydney...
John Casey was born in 1923 and lived for the first few years in Gravesend, New South Wales. When he was seven the house burned down and the family lived in a bush camp before setting out for a new life in...
Toni Brisland lives in Sydney with her husband and two Himalayan cats: Jade, a blue-point Himalayan, and Lord Flannery Persephone, a red-point. Her niece Justine’s two beagles, Shiloh and Rosie, are their...
Peter Haywood is a British-born cartoonist living in Melbourne, Australia. Having been published regularly since 1983, Haywood has had some twelve hundred comic strips and single panel cartoons published in a...
The author was born in Bendigo, Victoria, in the year of 1945. He attended the Golden Square State School (most of the time) and graduated to the Bendigo High School until he was fifteen. He then worked at...
Rosalind Dorrington grew up in Auchenflower Brisbane and was educated at St Ignatius Toowong. She married at the tender age of seventeen and reared three daughters. She has experienced many adversities but has...
Marie Lukic has completed a Bachelor of Arts, English major (La Trobe University), further studies in Education, Journalism (Deakin University) and a Diploma in Professional Writing & Editing (NMIT). She...
Rosslyn Thomas is a mother and grandmother who was a teacher for many years in Melbourne.
An author of poetry, short stories and articles, her work has been published and she has twice received...
Norma Jean Moseley was born in Yorkshire in the late 1920s and spent her childhood in a Methodist environment.
She served in the British Army in World War II, where she met and married a regular soldier....
I was born in Brisbane 1957 under the fire sign of Aries; which makes me enthusiastic and determined. My name, Shontara, means ‘The Rose of Love’. And this is my purpose – to give love...
Devon Minchin, B.A., has worked in advertising in Sydney, London, New York, Singapore and Hong Kong. He has been a director of logging operations in Sarawak and the Solomon Islands. He founded and ran...
A teacher for over thirty years, Glenda Bahy
has always loved literature, particularly children’s literature. She has written verse since childhood, including many performance pieces for primary...
Carolyn Angelin was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1965. She grew up in a dysfunctional family, so she looked forward to creating a picture perfect world of her own one day.
Carolyn was swept off her...
JON HAYTON, born in 1942, became the lead guitarist for Dig Richards & The R’Jays in 1958. He stayed with the R’Jays when the band went out on its own in 1963 and then transformed into the Rajahs in 1964....
Shaune Lafferty Webb was born in Brisbane, Australia. Her father was an amateur astronomer and her eldest brother, an avid science fiction reader. Perhaps it was inevitable that Shaune developed an early...
Albert Shelling was born in Kalisz, a town in the southwest of Poland near the German border. His childhood was marred by the advent of World War II and the untimely death of his father in Siberia. It is now...
James was born in Sydney. He began his career as a truck driver, and progressed to middle management positions for major private and public companies before starting his own transport company.
James...
Early in his career Matthew Hogan worked in the newspaper industry, first with the bygone Sydney Daily Mirror, then with the weekly handbook of the rural community, The Land. The lessons of grammar, punctuation...
Barry Wilks began working with a Sydney morning paper as a copy boy and then moved onto an apprenticeship in the plumbing and a lifetime working in the building trade. Eventually he became a chimney sweep in...
Lainey Sheldon resides in Noosa Heads, Queensland.
Writing has been a pleasurable pastime for her for many years and since becoming a grandmother, she has enjoyed writing many children’s stories;...
Rita Megale lives in a beautiful town called Luddenham on the outskirts of Sydney’s greater west (near Penrith, NSW). She lives on her parents’ property, which boasts 25 acres. She is a single mother of three...
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...
Leah Squire is an entrepreneur with a talent for building and marketing lifestyle businesses. She is a wife, mother of two boys and successful businesswomen. Leah is the founder of internet based travel...
Stephen May was born in Lincolnshire, England in 1947 After a secondary school education and a brief working career he soon discovered his chosen vocation in trade and commerce. This enabled him to spend some...
AR Puttee was born in 1978 in New South Wales, where the family lived for a few years before moving to Brisbane, Queensland. He now considers Brisvegas, Queensland to be his home. From the moment AR Puttee...
KC Webb was born in Kent, England in 1963 and immigrated to Australia in 1971 with his parents. The family settled in Brisbane, where he has lived ever since. He is qualified for two trades (plastering and fire...
James Nott was born into a farming family in the Central West of NSW. His early schooling took place in Dubbo, followed by boarding school in Sydney. During these formative years, he developed an understanding...
After a military career as a fighter/bomber pilot, Michael spent a period studying theology and psychology before becoming a recluse living somewhere in Queensland. He writes short stories, has an interest in...
Bio:Arlette Guedon was born in France during World War II, but has no recollection of those difficult times; the only remaining memory in her mind was the living situation of after the War. She grew up and...
Brenda Joy Showers is an Australian natural therapist, working with healing for mind, body, soul and spirit. She believes that emotional healing is an essential element of restoring health to the physical and...
Jacqueline and John Dinan wrote A Woman's War together. Their skills and experience are complementary.
Jacqueline Dinan-Currently, Jacqueline is primarily raising her three sons. In 1999, Jacqueline...
A native of Cumbria, Allan came to Australia in 1966, as a ten-pound POM. He was a victim of the demise of the English coal industry, having worked for the National Coal Board for eleven years.
After...
Buddy Chamberlain lives in Woodberry, a suburb near Maitland. He is the father of eight children, has twenty-three grandchildren plus a dozen or more great grandchildren.
Buddy was a painter at the Port...
Nola Turner-Jensen is a Wiradjuri woman from the river country in Central
West NSW. Nola is proud of her Aboriginal background as well as the Irish
and English heritage from her fathers side.
Nola...
Susan Taylor was born in 1965 in Castlemaine Victoria. The youngest of 12 children she was raised with a colourful mix of siblings. A long standing interest in the esoteric field has contributed to the creation...
Stuart Black was born in Sydney and attended school in Sydney and London. During his teens he developed a taste for playing and writing music but in his twenties realised that passion alone wasn’t going to pay...
Former academic and tertiary educator, Howard Smith now makes his home in Newcastle where he lives with his wife and daughters. His wide experience in teaching and counselling has made Smith a student of human...
Peter Sinclair has spent most of his working life writing. He began reporting courts and councils in rural Orange (NSW) in the late 1950s then worked briefly for The Daily Telegraph where, because of his fluent...
Allan Porter Skerman was born in Warwick in Queensland in 1917, taking his Christian name from his uncle, Allan Chesher Skerman who died of wounds on the Western front during the First World War in the same...
Justin Sheedy was born in 1968 and grew up in North Epping in Sydney’s north-west suburbs. He was educated by the Little Sisters of No Mercy, then by the Jesuits, and obtained a degree in fine arts, qualifying...
The author lives on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. Several years ago she wrote about her life for her family and this encouraged her to develop her writing skills further. She completed a number of...
Andrew Pickford is based in Perth, Western Australia and works in the area of policy and strategy. In January 2010, he was appointed as the inaugural ISSA Indo-Pacific Managing Director to create and lead a...
Western Australian Gregory Copley, the author of The New Total War of the 21st Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic, has served for almost five decades as an adviser on strategic issues to a number of...
Cyrus C. McFarlane was born in Wodonga, Victoria, where his great-grandfather built the first bridge over the Murray River and surveyed the site for the town of Wodonga and for rail lines to Geelong and other...
Penny Becchio started life on a small country Police Station on the NSW south coast. She spent her childhood moving with her family to a number of country towns where she revelled in the freedom of country...
Ray Smithies was born in Melbourne, but when he was a child the family moved to Wangaratta in northeast Victoria, where they lived for the next twenty years before Ray moved back to the city. He now lives near...
Glenn Cannon was born in Hong Kong in 1969 and moved to Australia with his mother in 1975. His formative years were spent in country New South Wales, followed by boarding school and tertiary study in Melbourne....
Carmel Veronica Locaso was born in Melbourne on 18th January, 1968. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Italian and a Diploma in Education.
Since her early teens she has always had an interest in the...
Barbara Fitzgibbon lives in Kingscliff on the Far North Coast of New South Wales. She has also lived and worked in Queensland, the Northern Territory, the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, Israel, South Africa...
Mike Dixon was born in England and has a degree in astrophysics. He worked for a while at Canberra’s Mount Stromlo Observatory and for the Australian public service. Illness in the family took the Dixons to...
Vincent Smith grew up in the West Midlands of England at a time when it was still known as and looked like the Black Country. At the age of sixteen he came to Australia — one of more than a million ‘ten pound...
Fathy Fares was born in Egypt, a son of a school director and the youngest of seven children. He completed his high school education in Cairo.
He studied engineering at a German university. He is married...
The author grew up around the Naval Home Ports and Home Counties of England, before migrating to Australia in his early twenties. He holds an Arts Degree from Sydney University and a postgraduate qualification...
Win Wise grew up in Wangaratta, Victoria. She trained as a nurse at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and after graduating in 1951 worked as a private nurse in England. She hitchhiked around Europe, and in 1955...
Hélène Maher lives happily in the hills outside Sydney, with her husband, five children, a dog, a cat and a rabbit and soon hopes to get a goat or two. In her spare time, she enjoys cake decorating, dressmaking...
The author has elected to publish under a pseudonym, Felix. The author affirms that the information in this biography is true and correct apart from the name.
I was born in Melbourne in 1947. I live...
Cassandra Jose was born in New Zealand in 1957 and has lived in Australia since the age of fourteen. She has worked as a social worker, a public sector manager and has run a fabric retail business. She holds a...
Chris Tamblyn was born in 1967 in Parramatta, Australia and was raised in the NSW county town of Kempsey. He joined the RAAF at age 16, where he became qualified as an Aircraft Engineer and also formed a...
Biography: The author was born in Hong Kong. His father was Norwegian; his mother, who died when he was three, was Australian.
Derek received his early education in China and was sent to Australia just...
Professor Tracy was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1926. He was foundation Professor of Surgery for the University of New South Wales at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, from 1969 until 1986. He was elected a...
Manny Fiteni was born in Melbourne, Australia and is a Certified Financial Planner. He currently holds a senior management position within the wealth management profession. In 2003, whilst coaching in the...
Jennifer Jackson writes under the pseudonym of Gwenny Jackson. She has been educated mainly in Melbourne and has a Bachelor of Social Science and Psychology from La Trobe University, a Graduate Diploma in...
Noel George Tuckey was born at Wau, New Guinea and began a distinguished writing career as a freelance journalist and columnist at age 35, contributing articles to motoring and boating publications based in...
Gae Anderson grew up on her parent’s farm at Matong, 80 kilometres from Wagga Wagga, NSW. She studied by correspondence at home until she went to boarding school.
Listening to radio plays and serials...
Where do you start your spiritual journey? How do you know when you are picking up the qualifications for a career you never applied for? The secret is simply that you are the only candidate capable of stepping...
Vakkina Panagiotidis was born in Greece and migrated to Australia in 1956, partly for the adventure, but also to achieve her dream of owning her own clothing factory. At an early age, she became a painter and a...
My family and I have lived in the Penrith area for the past twenty-eight years and will soon be able to call ourselves 'locals'.
I have served in the Australian Army as a signalman, for over two years in...
Alan Moore is the younger son of a Methodist minister who started his working life as a missionary in southern Africa. Alan owes much of his interest in fictional writing to his mother who encouraged imaginativ...
Allan Stanton was born in Brisbane in 1947. His early childhood and schooling followed his father’s postings as an Ampol rep to several Queensland country towns.
His love of the game of golf saw him...
Jeff Carr was born in Geraldton WA in 1944 and was raised in modest circumstances in the small nearby stock-selling and railway town-site of Narngulu.
From a shy, nervous, stammering child he progressed...
Arnold Gilchrist lives in Melbourne with his wife, who is his caregiver in his terminal illness.
Arnold’s university course was interrupted by the Second World War and his deployment to Bomber Command in...
Sue Trethowan-Jones was born in Melbourne but moved to Geelong as a child. She has worked as a journalist for 25 years. She was the Women’s Editor of the Geelong newspaper for 20 years, and also the Fashion and...
Michael Morel is a young-at-heart 74 year old, whose Irish blood has mingled with his French ancestry to create a gift for storytelling and a propensity for romance, as well as the bonus of a soaring imaginatio...
Grant Rodwell was born into an impoverished family in the New South Wales high country. He left school at fourteen years of age – without having had the privilege of attending high school – and...
Michael Joseph Stanton was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1958. He was schooled by the Christian Brothers and is a graduate of Griffith University. After careers in retail and wholesale banking,...
Richard Stubbs was born in Liverpool, UK, in the late 1930s; he was the son of a Lancashire coal miner, and he received the basic education standards of the day. He entered the workforce in this busy industrial...
Lisha Miller was born in Fiji. At the age of thirty she migrated to Australia. When she was a few months old, her mother gave her away to be looked after by her grandparents. Spending her childhood years with...
Michael Hoban was born in Ireland and migrated to Australia in 1968 after graduating with a BA degree from University College Dublin. He married an Australian girl and has three daughters. He is presently...
Larry Noye is a retired journalist whose career began as a copy boy at Truth in Melbourne after leaving Williamstown High School in 1944. A cadetship at The Footscray Mail followed, also stints on daily...
Ian Hummerston worked briefly as an underground gold miner in Gwalia in the West Australian goldfields before becoming an award-winning career journalist who edited a major metropolitan daily newspaper for more...
Soon after Billy Munro’s birth in Brisbane his family moved to Newcastle in New South Wales where his father was a stockman and racehorse trainer. Growing up in and around stables, Billy became an expert...
Robin Johnson, landscape horticulturist, teacher, environmentalist and gardening enthusiast, shares his reflections, experience and practical suggestions for sustainable gardening in this, his second book. Bro...
Sandra Clough is a psychotherapist/ family counsellor working in this position since 1989. She has Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities majoring in Psychology and Sociology and Graduate Diploma in Arts Family...
Alison attributes much of her success as a chef to the vigorous training she received at the world-famous culinary school, Westminster Hotel School in London which boasts other celebrity ex-students such as...
Geraldine Fennell was born to Anglo-Irish parents in Liverpool, UK. She came to Australia in her teens and is now an Australian citizen. She is widely travelled and is married with three daughters.
My parents had four daughters, then came the great day I was born, a son. My father, as I was told later by my beloved Mother and older siblings, was very, very proud, happy and excited all at once. His first...
Elizabeth Barber was born on the east coast of Tasmania and from
a young age had a fascination with fairytales. She loved to read Enid Blyton
books and write her own short stories about faraway places.
The author Lindsay Rochecouste is presently a teacher in Townsville, North Queensland . His interest in writing began though the challenge of ‘telling a story’ or ‘creating an ambiance’...
Iris Foster, born February 1921 in Adelaide , grew up on a sheep station in the raw, almost untouched corner country of NSW.
Iris and her father, Herbert Davies, (an ex-drover for Kidman) visited many...
Colleen Poulter grew up in the turbulent 1970s in a poor ethnic working class suburban neighborhood, one of seven children born within a penniless immigrant family. Her parents were postwar migrants who arrived...
Life is short, and I would like my life to be a testament of someone having tried new things, lived in different places and followed my heart. As a single mum with a teenage son, I want him to see how many...
Alexander Vassilieff is a descendent of the colonists who are personified in his first epic novel - a biography of his family. Alex was born in Shanghai, China. At the age of three, he was taken to Harbin and...
Sue Osborne has inspired many health professionals and people seeking help from the health care industry for over thirty years. She has an unfaltering belief that people have the intrinsic worth to heal...
John Irtel was born in Transylvania from where he absconded in 1947 to escape the ravages of change in Eastern Europe. He lived in Austria as a refugee and tried to immigrate to Britain but failed. In January...
Grand Master Yong Dai Cho has been teaching Taekwondo in Australia for 37 years. During this time he has devoted his heart and soul to developing Taekwondo Bongsul as a new Taekwondo martial art.
Green S.K. worked in the hotel nightclub security industry for a number of years before enlisting in the Australian Regular Army. While serving in an Infantry Battalion he successfully completed specialist...
Harro Drexler has a B.Sc. degree in chemistry and applied mathematics from the University of the Witwatersrand South Africa. He also holds a masters degree in Business Management obtained at the University of...
Robert Menzies is a teacher and primary school principal who lives and works on the hinterland of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
As a boy he lived on a small farming community with a twin sister...
Bradley Marshall was born in 1996. Like most boys his age, he enjoys swimming, tennis, mini golf and computer games. He also plays classical piano, performing solo at school concerts with a feeling that has to...
Derek Smith was born and educated in old South Wales. He came to Australia to continue post-doctoral research in physical chemistry at the University of Sydney. A few years later, he took up a lecturer’s...
A seventh generation Australian with a strong convict heritage, Doug Buckley was born in country New South Wales and grew up mainly in Broken Hill. As well as lecturing in engineering at universities in...
Born during World War II in Transylvania, the author undertook many directions in his life, starting as a refugee in Germany. Historically speaking, war had dwindled the family in the past. As a survivor, the...
JB Garry was born 26 October 1962 in Western Europe. His first contact with a dog took place when he made his first steps as a child. As a ten year old child, he went hunting with his relatives, taking with him...
As an adult the author continued her education, successfully obtaining diplomas in Community Services – Youth Work and Drug and Alcohol. She has worked with young people as a drug and alcohol outreach...
Lindsay Gordon was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1938. His upbringing was in, what might be called, a reasonably liberal Christian environment. He reluctantly and spasmodically attended a Christian Sunday...
As a child, Tina Morris dreamt a handsome prince would come and take her away to live happily ever after, but the reality was that her father was an alcoholic and her siblings called her ‘the little...
Ingrid Maria Karin ‘Inga’ Jacobi was born in 1921 in Poserna near Weissenfels in the province of Saxony. After early childhood in Poland she grew up in Berlin to become a librarian in the Prussian...
Elvira Davis was born in Tully, Northern Queensland, in 1935. She received her primary school education in Tully and Childers, thereafter attending high school in Herberton and graduating in Brisbane in...
Born in Sydney NSW in 1932, the author’s education began in Lithgow and continued in Bathurst until he obtained his Intermediate Certificate in 1947.
He was accepted into the Royal Australian...
Kevin Leggett was born in North Yorkshire, England, in 1942, in an age when large Catholic families of eight children were not uncommon and although on the wane, poverty was prevalent. His studies were rewarded...
Doreen Francis was born into a mining family a couple of years before the start of World War II in Northumberland in the north-east of England. Her early memories are of the hardship caused by war. At the age...
Denis is a healthy man of presence and resilience. His humour never misses an opportunity to be noticed. Despite his parental home having been so bereft, Denis is a man of passion, intense love for his wife and...
Ex Royal Australian Navy and Merchant Service, retiring as Pacific Island Master and Australian Coastal Ship Master. Various ships and shipping companies — Mainly Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands,...
Jennifer has always harboured a deep appreciation and respect for the natural world. Her house is on a hill-top, overlooking valleys of messmate and mountain ash. A pair of old eagles live there...
Peter Stewart was born in Sydney in 1954. He is a former English and History teacher who has worked in the Sydney property and parking industry for over twenty years. Since leaving teaching, he has maintained a...
Cedric Hampson is an eminent Queen’s Counsel and former President of the Bar Association of Queensland. Educated in Queensland and at Oxford, he has had a career in the law spanning forty-nine years. He...
Don Watson was born in New Zealand and came to live in Australia in the 1970s. He travelled for the next ten years before returning to Australia in the 1990s to live there permanently.
He has worked in...
Peter Dwyer is Principal Fellow in Education at the University of Melbourne. He was initially trained as a Jesuit priest, and served as their National Planning Officer and Director of Asian Bureau Australia. In...
Annette Freeman has worked for almost thirty years as a trade marks lawyer with the same Sydney firm, where she has been a partner for the last ten years. The stories she could tell about that! But John...
Joe Deriu was born on the island of Sardinia, Italy. He spent his youth playing among the buildings, now ruins, built by the ancients and was fascinated by the ingenuity of such builders so long ago. Round,...
Mark Middleton was born in Britain but now lives in Melbourne. He has worked as a journalist on daily newspapers in Australia and Europe, and has also lectured at universities in Australia. He has published...
Coleen Grundy was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, in 1964.
She completed high school, then studied accountancy and business law, business management and supervision, reproductive health (family...
A Pogos Perspective
(A non-combatant soldiers Viet Nam experience:its affects & aftermath)
The title itself requires some explanation. Pogo is an acronym from the British military which...
Born in Kenya in 1939, Jim Landells was educated at Nairobi’s Duke of York school. With school over, he served his compulsory time in the Kenya Regiment before going on to the Egerton College of...
Royce Hall was born on 22 September 1925 and lived the earlier part of his life in Launceston, Tasmania, where he received a state school education. He served in the navy for three years during World...
Tom Law was born in Glasgow a very long time ago. He migrated to Melbourne, Australia, with his parents in 1961 where he completed his secondary and tertiary education. He has been a poet, songwriter, teacher...
Elizabeth Ryan is a Melbourne born teacher who met Peter a few weeks before her backpacking pilgrimage to Europe. The two wrote copious letters to each other before, on a balmy evening in Florence, she bade her...
Darcy Noffke was born in Charleville in 1950 and spent his childhood in various Outback Queensland towns where his father, a police officer, was stationed. During the seventies and early eighties he worked at...
Bob Mainwaring can trace his ancestry back to his farmer forebears who arrived in Van Diemen’s Land in 1835 to help pioneer the fledgling colony. Their numerous descendants include farmers and professiona...
Dorothy Dickhart Clarke had a country upbringing and -married very young, travelling with the Royal Australian Army for six years. With a nursing career behind her, she returned to Western Australia where she...
Caterina Ligato experienced the spirit realm for the first time at the age of three.
As she grew older she realised this ‘gift’ of being able to see and communicate with spirits had its complications and...
Sandra Slatter CM, MIEF is a cancer and bone marrow transplant survivor. Prior to being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in August 2003, Sandra spearheaded her own successful company; a proven leader in...
R Casey admits to having had the odd novel published as well as a number of (largely unreadable) scientific papers. After a long career noteworthy for its lack of interest, he is now leading a fairly blameless...
Ken lives in Melbourne, Australia. His first venture into writing began on a sewerage farm whilst engaged in an aquaculture project in 2002. On a boring Friday afternoon, his imagination got the better of him...
Born and educated in England, now resident in Australia, Kevin Vodden spent most of his childhood in the village of Chawton, a mere few hundred metres from the house occupied in the early 19th century by Jane...
Susanne Ashley completed her ‘Diploma of Professional Children’s Writing in 1999, and is now devoting herself to writing full-time. Prior to that she worked as an Integration aide in schools and as...
My life was sheltered to an excruciating degree, so much so that I was unprepared for what was to come. While growing up in a close Catholic family I was pampered by everyone around me; I led a quiet life...
Bob Hill arrived in Thailand, his adopted home, in the early 1990s, intent on continuing a long career in film and television production. The transition from Australia and his native New Zealand had the...
Peter is a journalist and editorial consultant in Hong Kong and the founding editor of Rice Today magazine.
Francis Robert Dudman was born in Sydney’s western suburbs in 1938. Frank
married Joyce and they moved to Sylvania in the Sutherland Shire where they lived
until moving to Queensland in 1992.
The author is forty six and lives with his two children in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales. In addition to writing he enjoys skiing, sailing, fine food, antiques, classical music and dabbling in piano...
Peta Price is a clinical psychologist who practices in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. A major interest in her private practice is helping people who suffer from chronic pain. The treatment of chronic pain and...
Rhonda Scott retired from teaching five years ago to concentrate on her writing. Although she has written various plays, poems, articles for magazines and journals, and short stories, two of which reached the...
David R Cole is currently a lecturer in literacy and English Education at the University of Tasmania. Before he started working in Tasmania, he has accepted various positions in Egypt, Colombia, Argentina and...
Ruth Thomas lives in Brisbane, Queensland and has three children. Her interest in writing was stimulated in her childhood by her mother who was editor of an Australian Writers’ magazine for twenty years. Ruth...
Born and living in Sydney for the most of her life, Ruth O’Reilly graduated from Sydney University in the late seventies, majoring in political science and psychology. In 1988, she obtained a Graduate...
Max Sollitt was born in Geelong in 1927 but grew up in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. He narrowly escaped death at the age of five after contracting diptheria in a Bondi orphanage, then after leaving school...
Born in 1970 in Melbourne, Victoria, Sue Guillou spent her early years combining school with travel. Her family has seen New Zealand, extensively travelled Australia and has lived in Papua New Guinea for...
Rob Aalders grew up in Ireland, Germany and Malaya before arriving in Australia
in the mid 1960s. He later travelled and worked in Europe, America and Asia before
returning to Australia in 1990.
Rob is...
Born in 1947, Mark M Whitelaw forged a career in retail and wholesale before
venturing into self-employment. The last ten years have been spent with great
satisfaction in the tourist and travel industry.
Colin Mason is a former foreign correspondent and radio and TV executive. He was subsequently an Australian federal senator for nine years and deputy leader of the Australian Democrats. During this time foreign...
Born in Scotland but now lives in Melbourne. He has worked on daily newspapers in Australia and Britain, and also taught sociology at Monash University. His published non-fiction works include Crosstalk:...
Linda Smith was born in New Zealand in 1965. She now lives in Perth, Australia, after trying out various different countries and deciding the weather was best there. She is a primary school teacher, married,...
The youngest of the seven children of Francisco and Santa Manitta who migrated to Australia with their two eldest children, Nino and Nancy, on 14 September 1933. Frank was born in Lismore NSW on 5 November...
Rex Donald is an ordinary bloke; married, divorced and father of four. He is tertiary educated and a boilermaker by trade. He has held a number of senior positions in national and multinational companies both...
For twenty years I had typed letters for other people to sign. Suddenly out of a job, aged forty, I wrote four short stories in five days, sold one, and began my collection of rejection slips.
ABC-TV...
David Lawrence Hancock was born in Abingdon, UK and first came to Australia in 1960. After training as an entomologist and zoologist, he spent eleven years working in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, first with Tsetse Fly...
Richard Le Normand was born in Jersey Channel Islands in 1927 and was educated at Victoria College Jersey 1936–1944. Richard left college early, to avoid being ‘press-ganged’ into the...
Roy Douglas was born in 1935 in Auckland, New Zealand. Upon completing his education, he embarked on a career as a Medical Laboratory Scientist with the Auckland Hospital Board in 1954. By 1956, he was...
John Watkins has practiced as a mental health counsellor and educator for more than twenty-five years. He has a particular interest in researching and promoting holistic approaches to understanding and treating...
David Hortle was born at Longford in Northern Tasmania. He completed his education to university entrance level, but went home to the family farms; fourth generation on one and fifth generation on the other....
Kylie Lehman grew up in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. During the final year of secondary school, she was the editor of a school magazine which sparked her interest in creative writing. After...
Sana Turnock is a qualified clinical aromatherapist with a love and passion for all aspects of aromatherapy. She is an educator, practitioner and consultant in the field and the author of the book Complementary...
Masao Usui is a much sought-after columnist in Japanese dailies. His honest and accurate views on dating & relationships, punctuated with occasional humor, wit and failed philosophies, has made his regular...
Susan Benedict was brought up and educated in Australia and England. She spent most of her adult life in Sydney before retiring to the Sunshine Coast in south-east Queensland.
During her retirement, she...
Barry was born in Auckland, New Zealand and educated to university entrance level in the small King Country Township of Taumarunui where life bounded with adventure and risk.
At the age of eighteen he...
Actively involved in working for the common good for over thirty years, Robbie Lloyd focuses on social -justice for disadvantaged groups, and community cultural -development for indigenous people. Combining...
Mary Wicks was born in Adelaide, South Australia and has lived there all her life. She and her husband have travelled widely, and Mary has always had a deep appreciation of and fascination with the beauty of...
A Hindu and Christian ex-Malaysian Australian, with a residence of more than half a century in Australia, and participating fully (and therefore atypically) in Australian civil society (and at leadership...
Bill McGeever was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, in 1925. His father was a railway officer in the Traffic Branch of the Queensland Railways and was transferred frequently to various stations throughout the...
Born in 1952, JR rushed through his school years, leaving for adventure at the age of fourteen. There was a vast and mysterious world out there to be explored. Before his twentieth birthday he had experienced...
Charles Bridges-Webb spent his early childhood as the son of a country doctor, and then grew up in Melbourne. He did medicine at the University of Melbourne, and from 1960 spent 15 years as a country general...
After working as an academic psychologist in several countries, John Biggs returned to his Tasmanian roots to commence a second career as a writer of fiction.
The Girl in the Golden House (Pandanus Press,...
Andrew Toth has been in active sales for nearly forty years. Very few authors on selling can claim this; they usually leave sales early and move into related fields.
Andrew has taught many salespeople...
S. P. Kwan is currently working on several projects, one of which is the next in the Pic N' Mix Travel Series. This time she is not writing a journey with hard facts for the purpose of an informative guide, nor...
Hayley Payton was born in Victoria, Australia, and lives with her parents and a brother. She attended Keilor Downs Primary School and is currently in year 9 at Keilor Downs College.
She began writing...
June Cookson was born near Merton Victoria, one of seven children, a direct descendant of Welsh?German pioneer farmers. Educated at Brankeet-West S.S., Mansfield H.E.S., Korowa Girls? Grammar, Melbourne;...
Susan Whelan and Meredith Flynn grew up in adjacent suburbs of NewcastleNSW. They met at high school in 1984 and have shared many adventures and misadventures since then. Presently they are both mainly occupied...
Gena Alston is English by birth, European by development and Australian resident by choice. She resides in Brisbane with her husband of eleven years, David. Both live a very spiritually aware life and try to...
Vijai Lakshmi was born in Guyana, South America.
She currently resides in Toronto, Canada, where she spent many years working in the finance area in the corporate and government sectors.
Her passion...
Born in Gladstone Queensland, Angela Caterson spent her childhood moving regularly from town to town with her family and police officer father. Exposure to warts and all humanity from living around police...
To give you an idea of my background in writing I'd best go back to the beginning. As there was no beginning I'd best fast forward to my senior year at high school where for the first time, but definitely not...
Robyn Robins is a professionally qualified holistic counsellor, yoga teacher, astrologer and published author, currently living in the Hinterland on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.
As a holistic...
The Devil & Maximillian Grey is the first novel by d.p.hildebrand and was written in response to the current dearth of old fashioned ‘boys-own adventures’ (not to say that girls cannot enjoy old fashioned...
Harijs Upenieks was born in 1925 in the Independent Republic of Latvija and studied mechanical engineering from 1940-1944 when he was mustered as a junior deckhand on a cargo vessel which was subsequently...
Born 01.01.1968 of mixed heritage, half Irish, half English, half German, half Indian and the rest I don’t know but certainly 100% Australian, 5th generation at least. Grew up in the shadow of the Blue...
John's career in advertising has taken him to London, New York, Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. These days he runs his own advertising and marketing business, is a director of YAA (Young Achievement Australia) and...
Noel Braun commenced his working life as a country schoolteacher 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...
Chris Edmonds left school at the age of fifteen, then returned to study at age twenty-six and spent the following thirteen years completing high school and two degrees. She trained in the area of social work...
Werner Viertmann is one of those people who will only settle down when old age and arthritis tells them to. He was born in Selm, West Germany on the 29th of January 1929 in the middle of one of the coldest...
Father of four, ex-merchant seaman and until recently a practising loss adjuster, Ian McLaren lives with his wife, Yvonne, near Hobart, Tasmania. Hobbies include sailing, flying light aircraft, and music. He...
TONY MAY spent the early years of his working career as a fabricator welder traveling the world working in the oil and gas construction industry on both onshore and offshore facilities. Returning to college...
Aison Lewis was born in Britain but has called Australia home for the past 19 years. She has lived in Scotland, travelled throughout Europe and has a special fascination for Italy, a place she hopes to visit...
Thoraiya Bousaleh was born in the year of the goat on the same day as Napoleon Bonaparte. She qualified as a veterinary surgeon at Sydney University in 2002, and practices in Port Stephens, NSW, in order to...
Richard Paul De Nardi was born in Camden, NSW, Australia in 1972. Since enlistment in 1991, Richard has served in the Australian Army, progressing through the ranks from Lieutenant, following his graduation...
Tegan is an 18 year old, high school graduate residing in the outer suburbs of Melbourne. She completed year 12 at Eumemmerring College in 2003 and wrote Almagest as a part of her VCE folio for Art. She came...
Sylvia Taseski Vrondou was born in 1980. She studied Professional Writing at The Australian College of Journalism. The Strong, the Wise and the Weak is her first book and she is currently working on another....
M.J. Mathews (Dip.H/Sc; B.A.) was born in -Mackay, Queensland, Australia. She has been well-educated academically, qualifying as a Senior Home Science Teacher, then later attending the University of Queensland...
Steve Murphy spent his formative years in Sydney's Redfern. Abandoned by his mother when only weeks old, his father left him in the care of a cruel, alcoholic stepmother while he himself was in jail. Unbelievab...
Never one to let life simply take its course, Jay McKee believes you need to push it around a bit, and shape it to fit yourself if you want to feel comfortable in it and enjoy it to the full. This philosophy...
Phillip Mollard's commercial background extends 27 years in the financial services arena, of which ten years was dedicated to property development and investment. Phillip purchased his first property at the age...
Guy Sigley was born and raised in Melbourne. After studying Arts and Law at university, he moved to Canberra and worked in the ACT for three years. Guy has since returned to his home town with his wife...
Brian J. Meade is a medical research scientist. He specialises in the monitoring of patients with chronic illness who live in remote areas. He and his wife Elizabeth have travelled to (and worked in) various...
Ann Tregenza is an established Australian poet who is a regular visitor on ABC radio.
Her love affair with Greece commenced in 1961 whilst on a working holiday in Canada where she first became aware of...
Marion Seferth grew up and was educated in suburban Melbourne before training as a nurse in the early ‘60s. She married soon after graduating and settled in a semi-rural area. Suburbia caught up with...
Desmond Zwar began a newspaper cadetship on the Albury Border Morning Mail, and then moved to The Herald, Melbourne, to be employed by the late Sir Keith Murdoch. (He was to write Sir Keith’s Life 30...
Peter D Thompson is a jack of all trades and master of none. He’s worked as a labourer, salesman of product and concepts, television cameraman, cab driver, model, dish-pig on Hamilton, writer of...
A complex amalgam of academic, scientist, engineer, artist, entrepreneur and father, Chris can be found wandering throughout Gippsland. He has published widely in obscure journals such as Industrial Robot. He...
Ale Liubinas was born in Lithuania. In 1944 she and her family fled from the Russians to the West. After the Second World War she lived in the refugee camps in Germany until she and her family migrated to...
Janice Waters was born in country Australia and has realized a life-long dream with her debut novel A Life for Tuppence. Janice derives her emotion and life education through her personal struggles and...
Don Ebert graduated from The University of Sydney as a chemical engineer. He worked as a corporate executive in the manufacturing industry in Australia and USA. In recent years he has designed and manufacture...
Kenny Pisani was born in Sydney in 1981 to Maltese parents who migrated to Australia more than two decades earlier.
From an early age his family travelled Australia by car. This was the most memorable and...
Stephanie Giannis was born in Sydney Australia. Her parents are of Greek origin. Stephanie has completed a combined Arts/Law degree at the University of Sydney and she is a registered solicitor.
Stephani...
Born in 1938 in Victor Harbour, South Australia, Nancy Lacey led a nomadic life which took her from the city of Adelaide to the world’s largest cattle station in the Northern Territory and eventually to a...
Poetry is the stuff that doesn't reach the edges of paper. Concise, that's me! A past member of The Fellowship of Australian Writers: Society of Women's Writers: The Sutherland Shire Writing Group: the latter,...
Born and raised in country NSW, the Hill Brothers have tried almost every sport available to them: lawn bowls, netball, squash, vigaro, darts and rugby, to name but a few. Predictably, they were woeful at every...
Don Puckridge was involved with agricultural systems in South and SE Asia for over 20 years. Sixteen years of this involved research on deeply-flooded rice ecosystems for The International Rice Research...
Tish Lees was born in Perth in 1940. Three weeks later her life on a remote sheep station called ‘Karratha’, 1700 kilometres north in the Pilbara District in Western Australia, began. Educated by...
Ralph De Lacey was born in Home Hill, a small but thriving North Queensland sugar town in 1946. He grew up on a small crop farm at Gumlu forty kilometres further south. The family of nine walked off this farm...
Michael Morgan's life started in the Himalayas and only got rockier as he strove to cope with the English boarding school system. He studied geology at Cambridge before exploring parts of Australia and Africa,...
Rick Van Dam was born in Hiversum, Holland, one of three children, and was educated at Easter Park High School. He travelled with his family around the world, his father being a diamond cutter, and most of his...
Mark Hibberd was born in Geelong, Australia and lives in Melbourne with his family. His background is in retail management, and he now wishes to pursue his long standing interest in writing. Deceit is his first...
Pioneer Cornish lifesaver; builder; international hitch-hiker; glass washer; cleaner and bouncer in an Algerian brothel; floor sweeper in an Italian coffin factory; British sign manufacturer; Australian neon...
Aydan Turco was born in Melbourne in 1991. He completed his primary school education
at St Francis of Assisi, Mill Park, and is currently attending Parade College,
Bundoora for his secondary education.
A...
Danny Kinane came to Australia from Ireland in 1973 as a High School teacher. He was ordained a priest in 1979 and, after seventeen years in parish ministry in North Queensland, retired to explore a more...
M. J. Bruty grew up in Newcastle on the New South Wales central coast. Service with the Australian Defence Force, and life experience, has provided the background knowledge and inspiration for the author's...
Julie Haskins started writing for leisure at the age of 8. After receiving merit and encouragement for numerous short stories, she developed a desire to create more and soon began writing on a larger scale....
Rednik is a specialist in institutional strengthening, governance, capacity building, human resources development, strategic planning, and learning systems, is a human and social geographer and has a PhD and...
D. Bruno Starrs was born in Adelaide, Australia and has lived all over the country. He is unmarried and quite unattractive although he has managed to win a few bodybuilding titles. He is also quite unintelligen...
Catherine Berriman is a philosopher and life coach. This book is a collection of her verses, poems and insights into how one can awaken to the truth of life and experience of great peace, happiness and...
A passionate reader of the fantasy genre, T.J.Arryn has spent some twenty years researching creatures of mythology, their origins, their habits and associated environments, and exploring several areas of...
Patricia Mesiti was born in country New Zealand and raised on a picturesque dairy
farm in the middle of the lush plains of the North Island.
In search of a better future Patricia migrated to Melbourne...
Born in France in 1946, writer Maryse Ledru migrated to Australia in 1976 and
lives in Queensland.
Her early attention to literature was kindled by the French and Greek classics,
but she fell in love...
Marie Seltenrych was born in Leixlip, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Marie attended a Vocational College and eventually became a Secretary to a Dublin MP. She pursued her acting and ambition by attending evening...
John McAndrew was raised on a farm on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. It was evident from an early age that he had the right attitude for producing outstanding results.
At age 15, John moved to Brisbane and...
Peter Ralph spent his early business life as a chartered accountant, specialising in corporate recoveries and reconstructions. In the mid 1980’s he became CEO of a mid-sized private company and grew it to the...
Born and educated in London England, Andrew Mudie qualified professionally as a Civil Engineer gaining experience in both engineering design and the construction of major roads and marine projects throughout...
BARRY ABLEY holds a Diploma of Education (Hawthorn Institute of Education), Graduate Diploma in Health Science (Queensland University of Technology) and Graduate Certificate in Health Economics (Monash...
Nancye Kent Perry always considered herself fortunate in that during her working life she was involved in her two great loves; research and painting.
Graduating with a Bachelor of Science from the...
Vaughan was born in 1950, the second of three boys. He was raised on the north shore of Auckland, New Zealand, attended Takapuna Grammar School and graduated with a civil engineering degree from Auckland...
Valerie Johnstone has a background of primary and secondary teaching, school administration, counselling of parents and students, organising of self-help groups, and many years of researching the human stress...
Simon Klapish was born in Manchester, England. After graduating as a microbiologist, he came to Australia in 1979 on a one-year work permit. He then migrated in January 1982.
His family’s experiences of...
Sarah Cook was born in Sale, Victoria, in 1954. She now lives in Adelaide with her husband Rodney and has three grown children, three stepchildren, and at last count, ten grandchildren.
Sally Graham is a Melbourne writer. Educated at the Melbourne Church of England Girls' Grammar School and Cheltenham Ladies' College in England, she went on to read history at St. Andrews University in...
RUDI STIEBRITZ was born 22.3.1923 in Jena, Germany, the youngest child in a family of six girls and three boys. After graduating as a structural engineer (1942), Rudi was conscripted immediately to fight with...
Regret that Ron passed away in Canada.
Ron Heynneman was born in Surabaya (Java), and raised in Makassar (Celebes, now Sulawesi). In 1942, the Japanese invaded the Netherlands East Indies and interned the...
Robena Schaerf was born in Ouse, Tasmania, Australia on October 8, 1948 to John and Myrtle Grant. Her family later re-located to the small Hunter Valley town of Cessnock, New South Wales. Robena graduated from...
I was at boarding school, in 1914, when a German submarine was washed up on the beach ? we clambered all over it, until a guard was placed on it.
The same year a German cruiser evaded the Navy and...
Paul Spencer Sochaczewski has spent more than 30 years on the conservation front lines. Born in Brooklyn, New York, raised in northern New Jersey, graduated from George Washington University, he served in the...
Michael Jones was born in Sydney, educated at Sydney Grammar and University of Sydney, and was a solicitor there for ten years before deciding to leave and travel overseas. Since then he has lived and worked in...
After education at Somerville House, Brisbane and working as a Secretary, Mary studied at the Brisbane Kindergarten Teacher's College. She became an early childhood teacher. This experience gave her a love of...
Kerry entered the Royal Australian Air Force in 1962. He was later cleared to the highest level of security and sent to the RAAF Airforce Base at Point Cook where he spent one year, along with a select few...
Joe Novella was born 1967 in Victoria, to Southern Italian parents who had migrated from Calabria in the 1940's.
As a child Joe was a sports nut, playing soccer from the age of six, loved to read, watch...
'...slick court action giving a real and tangible insight into the family court system. Superb story telling from a new Australian talent. Definitely a must read.' Robert N. Stephenson - Altair magazine``...And...
Graham Fricke is a former judge and author, whose previous works include studies of famous Australian libel cases, prime ministers, High Court judges, Ned Kelly and his nemesis Sir Redmond Barry and the world's...
Howard Young has lived and worked in the Kimberley for 38 years, as a shop keeper, earth mover, taxi driver, school bus contractor and various other 'jack of all trades' occupations. This broad background has...
Douglas Hoile served in the RAAF as a fighter pilot and later graduated in medicine, working as a GP in country and suburban South Australia. He was co-author, with Ann Lehtmets, of Sentence: Siberia, the...
T. John Ward was born on the Kent/Sussex borders and spent part of his childhood on a lonely farm on the Romney Marshes.
He served with the Trucial Oman Scouts in the Persian Gulf and also saw active...
Donna Gardner lived and breathed international motorcycle racing for 11 years. At the age of 17 she left home to follow her then boyfriend and later husband Wayne Gardner to England to support him in his quest...
Chrissie Macdonald was born forty something years ago in Islington, London. A congenital Arsenal supporter, Chrissie has comedy blood in her veins. Her great uncle was Jimmy Gold, of the Crazy Gang's Naughton...
Bruce Pippett lives in Melbourne, Australia. He currently teaches conversational English at a foreign language middle school in Beijing. A lawyer for 29 years he now wishes to pursue a career in literature....
Brisbane born, educated Loreto College, Beverley Morley graduated as a physiotherapist from the University of Queensland, and as Beverley Shanahan, registered the first private ŒPhysiotherapy Centre‚ in...
Brenda was born in Kamloops, British Columbia, and raised in nearby Cache Creek. She went on from post-secondary schooling to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Economics, from the University of British...
Ann Lehtmets was born in southern Estonia in 1904 and educated at a girlsí college. She settled with her lawyer husband in Rakvere, Estoniaís third largest city. In 1941 she was arrested and transported to...
Andy Karam joined the US Navy in 1981, enlisting for submarine duty in the Naval Nuclear Power Program. An honor graduate from Machinists' Mate school in Great Lakes, Illinois, Andy reported to duty for Naval...