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24 horses lined up for the running of the 155th Melbourne Cup. At 100-1 Prince Of Penzance was the equal outsider, backed mainly by those hoping for a fairy-tale. A popular female jockey aboard when no woman had ever won the race before. A country bloke who had risen through the ranks from humble beginnings as a farrier in Stawell to become one of Australia's most successful and prolific trainers. 24 enthusiastic owners who had been following their horse all around Victoria from Stawell to Donald to Flemington. A New Zealand bred horse with a bargain price tag... Up against expensively bred stayers from Japan and Europe, horses owned by Sheikhs and millionaires. 100-1 shots are usually greeted back to scale with muted applause but there was a mighty roar for Prince Of Penzance... An extraordinary Melbourne Cup winner.

A book about the background to the memorable 2015 Melbourne Cup... from the perspective of those behind the triumph and how they experienced the race that stopped two nations!

'I felt certain there must be gold in those hills, Jack', wrote a prospector to Ion Idriess, 'but I know very little about the game.' And so Jack Idriess wrote Prospecting for Gold in 1931. This is the 20th edition and known throughout Australia as the classic self-help manual for would-be prospectors.

 

'This book is written to help the new hand who ventures into the bush seeking gold... The "towny" prospector, with this book as a guide, will soon master methods of prospecting and the working of his find.'

 

In an easy conversational tone, the author of Lasseter's Last Ride and Flynn of the Inland sets many a hopeful prospector on the road to discovering gold.

Charlie Lansdowne's life is going nowhere... fast. Trapped at home with his eccentric father, Roger, and his stroke-affected grandfather, Frank, he finds life a daily exercise in dysfunction as three generations of men strive to get along. But when Charlie meets the volatile and tempestuous Maxine - a surfer girl who works at the local abattoir - his life goes supernova. Friendships implode, passions ignite and death comes stalking in the night. Pulling Down the Stars is a story about the confusion of love, the longing for reconciliation and the need to pull our unrealistic dreams back down to earth.

Imagine if you could wake up every morning feeling energised, vibrant and excited for the work day ahead of you. If you could accept every challenge, hurdle and setback because you knew the end goal would be worth it. If you could walk your career path with courage, faith and determination. Because you know, without a doubt, that you're going in the right direction. This is what happens when you find your PURPOSE. And that is exactly what I want for you.

As the founder of Collective Hub, a multimedia platform that aims to help people unleash their full potential, Lisa Messenger has turned her passion into a profession - and now she's on a mission to help millions of people across the world find a career with meaning. Her secret? Instead of settling for a play-it-safe career, she delved deep, thought big and disrupted an entire industry.

And all because she discovered the magical feeling, the vital reason, the one powerful sentence that made her work-life worth living. Now, it's your turn.

In this soul-searching book Lisa discusses her own path to purpose, mixed with guidance and interviews from inspiring entrepreneurs and creatives who have followed their 'why' to a place of joy and fulfilment. Drawing on her own experiences and ground-breaking research that shows a sense of purpose makes us happier, healthier and even live longer, Lisa guides readers to find the illusive 'why' in their lives, so they can reinvigorate their ambition, unleash their inner rebel and make a real impact in the world.

Whether you're a new graduate, a veteran entrepreneur, a parent making a career comeback or an employee tired of working on autopilot, this book is a must-read for anyone who spends their lives making excuses, blaming others or wishing they could have a career that makes a difference.

The average person spends over 90,000 hours at work in their lifetime.

Do you want to get to the end of your work-life and wonder why?

Q: The Queermance Anthology - celebrates the best of queer Australian romance writing.

Commissioned to celebrate Melbourne's inaugural Queermance Literary Festival this is an anthology of erotically-charged romances from famous, emerging and aspiring writers.

Volume 1 features fabulous tales of love and lust by Kerry Greenwood, Matthew Lang, NM Harris, Julie A Pollard, Susan Beck, Alison Evans, Kristen Henry, Mary Borsellino, Anders and Nicole Field.

Sexy ~ Erotic ~ Romantic ~ Australian

Sexy ~ Erotic ~ Romantic ~ Queer ~ Australian Writing

Q: the Queermance Anthology - vol 2

This second volume of fabulous, erotically-charged romances from well-known, emerging and aspiring writers coincides with Melbourne's second Queermance Literary Festival.

Q2 features moving, inspiring, sad, funny, dark and light-hearted tales of love and lust by:

NM Harris, Beck Mitchell, Matthew Lang, Isabelle Rowan, JJ Carroll, Lou Kohler, JFR Coates, Renae Kaye, May Wilson, Marion Adams, Scott Thornby, Nicole Field, EE Montgomery, Dominica Malcolm and Victoria Brown.

365 quotes by world famous people and strategies from a well known Corporate Coach, mentor, facilitator and speaker to help you plan your year in life, business and sport. Celebrating 35 years of providing performance solutions to help people succeed in life, business and sport, this is your chance to have a handy collection of inspirational quotes by your side. A personal coach in your pocket! The quotations come from inspiring leaders, thinkers and writers including Winston Churchill, Indira Ghandi, Robert Frost, Alexander Pope, Marcus Aurelius, Heraclitus, Plato and Buddha.

Every year for over a decade Goldenberg, a white middle-aged doctor, has spent numerous periods working as a relieving doctor for Aboriginal communities in remote places.

On these visits he has observed and recorded Aboriginal Australians lives without resorting to simplification or glib solutions. Among his true stories we meet psychotic Elijah who believes he is Satan's boss and cannot die; a dehydrated baby whose mother gambles away money for food; an old lady who receives a gashed head while fending off a thief stealing her money - her husband. In the midst of tragedy, suffering and moral ambiguity, these stories also tell of cultural richness and common humanity.

Goldenberg writes: 'Aboriginal Australians are not at peace. They are variously unwell, underfed, overfed, afflicted excessively by our lifestyle diseases, confused by our drugs and drink, endowed with income but not with work, living in sickening poverty in paradisiacal places; and distracted from their serious cultural business by the trappings of our serious cultural emptiness.'

The railway is shown on maps as permanent way, however many lines are now abandoned. But the experiences of rail trips to distant places by train are, to many, deeply remembered events. This study acknowledges the essential economic effects of the rail network, but also celebrates the human responses, and when taken in overview, contributes to our continuing exploration of what it is to be Australian.

Keith Hallett has spent equal parts of his career as teacher and historian, but from early boyhood in the Dandenongs responded to the magic of steam echoing through the hills. A love of rail has underlined his work, and continues with his volunteer work on the Victorian Goldfields Railway, passing this love of trains to his sons and grandchildren.

'Raki' is the Australian Aboriginal generic word for rope, the unifying metaphor of Wongar's novel, representing the conquered or bound state of oppressed people. From the confines of an outback Australian prison cell to war-torn Serbia, 'Raki' invokes a powerful story of enchantment and struggle - the struggle to uphold traditions and nurture memory and joyous fortitude in the face of human devastation.

Drawing on tragic similarities between the forced separation of Aboriginal children from their tribal families and the decimation of his Serbian native land, B. Wongar has written an epic, surprisingly optimistic novel. And the unifying symbol is raki - the rope which fuses the historical facts, linking the Serbian and Aboriginal cultures to time immemorial. But raki is also the yoke of servitude, the rope which snaps with the shock of genocide, but which ultimately binds people together with love.

The author of 'Better Out Than In' and 'Better Out Than In Number Twos' is back with a collection of random musings and drawings that will make kids laugh out loud. It includes Adam's wacky view of topics including 'Top 5 Dance Moves', 'Top 5 Super Powers' and 'Things That Look Cute But Will Scratch Your Eyes Out If You Try To Hug Them'. There's even a recipe for Roast Monkey Butt with Tofu and Apples (No monkeys were harmed in the making of this book though!).

It's random, it's weird and it's definitely hilarious! As Adam says, "Look, to be honest, it was just me rambling on about anything that popped into my head, and now there is a whole book of this random stuff! A WHOLE BOOK! THIS BOOK! OMG! Which means Oh My God. It doesn't mean, as I initially thought, Old Men Giggled. And LOL doesn't mean Lots Of Love! I found that out when someone died and I wrote to their wife and said, 'I hear that your husband died. I'm sorry. LOL.' It didn't go down too well."

This ebook brings together two of Lurie's novels, the comic "Rappaport", which focused on a day in the life of a young Melbourne antique dealer and his immature friend, Friedlander, and "Rappaport's Revenge" where the characters, transplanted to London, were further chronicled. These are followed by several short stories: "Rappaport Lays an Egg", "The Death of Rappaport", "Dirty Friends", "Rappaport Dragged Over the Coals", "Rappaport Takes Lunch", and "Rappaport and Friedlander Meet in Heaven".

Diagnosed autistic at an early age, Sherlock Holmes is on the outer edge of every curve.

From his birth to his unique adulthood, Sherlock finds his immeasurable gifts of observation and deduction overbalanced by struggles with his senses and the incomprehensible nature of humanity.

Though nourished and cherished by his family, they cannot protect him forever, so Sherlock exiles himself, alone and always observing.

Then he meets Dr John Watson. John takes Sherlock's hand, pulls him close, and together doctor and detective fall in love.

Rare and Wonderfully Made brings a timeless character into our modern age and wonders…what if?

Lian Knight has recreated the amazing life of her grandfather, a war hero. What has been published about him is extraordinary – 2000 newspaper articles, many printed more than a century ago. Yet almost nothing written about him is consistent. The press varied his name, his age, his place of birth, where he lived and what he did. There were whispers that he emerged from poverty, delivering fish before dawn in London’s East End in the markets and laneways of Jack the Ripper’s local haunts, before joining the army at just thirteen. Averse to authority, he was a military superior’s nightmare. He served in South Africa and India before migrating to Australia.

When World War I broke out, he was despatched to the Western Front where, gassed, bombed and working against remarkable odds, he saved the lives of many and was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for valour. He became legendary, gaining medals and escaping death on numerous occasions. After the war he married and finally returned to Australia. He was famous in England and Australia for his bravery and kindness to his fellow man. Later as a movie star, a politician, a boxer, a celebrated Australian identity and a good Samaritan, his notoriety seemed to know no bounds. Which of these stories were real? A mixture of truth and fantasy has continued to be reported ... until now.

 

‘From page 1 of Ratbag, Soldier, Saint, I entered the magnificent maze of the life of Issy Smith, wonderfully led through that life by Issy’s granddaughter, Lian Knight.’ – General Sir Peter Cosgrove

‘This book brilliantly recounts the unusual life of Sergeant Issy Smith VC, a Jewish war hero of WWI, revealing the many challenges he and his family faced in Australia and England during the war and in the post-war years. A captivating read!’ – MAJGEN (Ret’d), Emeritus Professor Jeffrey V Rosenfeld

What would you do for love?

Would you kill? Would you die? Would you give up your soul?

British soldier, Dr James Sharpe, returned from Afghanistan a changed man. Like most war veterans haunted by deadly choices and the horrors of battle, James struggles against his demons. Unlike other ex-soldiers, his demons are real. Transformed in the heat of a desert battlefield, James Sharpe is now a vampire.

Struggling London artist, Gabriel Dare, has his own secrets - like who he really is, and why he lived on the streets before lodging with Dr Sharpe; like the ghosts he used to see, that made others question his sanity.

James knows Gabriel is the best thing in his life, but questions his ability to love and fears he's a danger to all. Gabriel knows there's something different about his enigmatic landlord, but can't deny his attraction.

When some of Gabriel's street friends go missing, he discovers that London is full of monsters - real, vicious, otherworldly monsters.

The two men join forces with a clairvoyant cop and a Peer of the Realm to uncover the truth, for it seems the vampire who sired James is back in London - with a diabolical agenda that threatens the entire nation.