This story of how I came to study History at Portsmouth Polytechnic in the 1970s and what life was really like for students back then – the wild parties, the drugs, the sex, the motorcycles, the bands, the girls, the beaches – and the poverty, the cold, the terrible digs, the drug busts, the unhappy neighbours, the hard work, the arrests, the loneliness and the daily fight for the bathroom. The truth is out. ...
A young person follows his parents to Australia after his family fled Syria. After time in a refugee camp his family comes to settle in Sydney. There Simon begins to develop his natural abilities as a footballer. He takes baby steps at first then striding out into the world of professional football. Soon his coaches realize how special his talents really are so they mark him down for future greatness. But life as a professional footballer has it ...
In 1962 when I was leaving Greece at thirteen to come to America my mother told me that I should write my father's story one day because all the fairy tales he told us when we were little were the true stories of his own life. But as you will find out in this book there was never any time to take up writing! Nine years ago I had a cardio version which left me with an almost certain frightening heart arrhythmia. I was told then, to slow down ...
Margot Edwards, Writer, editor and community artist Ginn tells us a giant story in which her own beliefs and experiences, as inheritor of white colonial narratives, stand parallel with her Nation and Africa's proud, defiant and resilient indigenous warriors; impacting each other in the complex struggle for liberation and meaning. Ginn navigates massive internal and external landscapes in times of war, trauma, fractured peace, conciliation ...
As a child, Alan and his family immigrated to Australia in the early 1960s. Like many British newcomers, they moved from suburb to suburb chasing employment. From the Migrant Hostel at East Hills through Sydney's Western Suburbs they finally settled in one of the toughest neighbourhoods of all…the Housing Commission settlement of Green Valley. It's there he finds mischief and music, joins his first band and eventually follows ...
The Light Where Shadows End is more than a war story; it is a story about spiritual transformation; about transcending war through love and reconciliation, about healing through faith and forgiveness. <br />Cantalupo is a war hero, and a witness. He shares the intimate details of war crimes and terrifying battles, of brutal inhumanity and extraordinary kindness, of pointless death and enduring survival. <br />His story takes us on a ...
Life often turns on the flip of a coin. That's how it was for the author who tells a story of a chance meeting at a roundabout in the seaside village of Byron Bay in 1997 that changed her life forever. ...
Imam Mohammad Tawhidi is a third-generation Iranian-born Australian Muslim Imam and a publicly ordained Islamic authority who comes from a prominent Islamic lineage. His ancestors were the companions of Prophet Mohammad and played a significant role in the early Islamic conquests.<br />Imam Tawhidi ended his relationship with the Iranian regime and continued his studies in the Holy Cities in Iraq. In 2014, ISIS conquered large parts of Ira ...
This is the early years in a story about a most remarkable female. Peacemaker at birth she goes on to bind an extended family in times of enormous upheaval. There are many problems for Rosie to overcome. Her birth mother dies when she is two so this infant is raised by her grandmothers. Her two brother fight continually with Rosie often having to seperate them. Once Rosie goes to school she is targeted by trolls. Then she has to watch her best f ...
