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  • Prose
    Linda Ruth Brooks / Tony Attwood
    There’s a randomness and whimsy to this collection, and anyone familiar with Linda, will expect exactly that. It is also represented in the cover art—a zentangle, aptly name ‘Goldfish in the Garden’.Prose begins at a nurses’ reunion where the usual entertainments slip away as Pathfinder Robyn astounds the normally unflappable Marilyn and everyone else with a tale as disjointed ...
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    21,41 €

  • Verse
    Linda Brooks
    A woman waits in the evening, a son helps a homeless man, a mother reflects on loss, an uncle’s war service as a stretcher bearer is honoured. Two babes on the cusp of the heavens contemplate what life will be when they are born. A mother watches a grown son sleep, a grandmother witnesses the birth of her first grandchild and a sister says goodbye.Verse is a varied and compelli...
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    14,67 €

  • Verse
    Linda Brooks
    ~A woman waits in the evening, a son helps a homeless man, a mother reflects on loss, an uncle’s war service as a stretcher bearer is honoured. Two babes on the cusp of the heavens contemplate what life will be when they are born. A mother watches a grown son sleep, a grandmother witnesses the birth of her first grandchild and a sister says goodbye.Verse is a varied and compell...
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    21,12 €

  • Prose
    Linda Brooks
    There’s a randomness and whimsy to this collection, and anyone familiar with Linda, will expect exactly that. It is also represented in the cover art—a zentangle, aptly name ‘Goldfish in the Garden’.Prose begins at a nurses’ reunion where the usual entertainments slip away as Pathfinder Robyn astounds the normally unflappable Marilyn and everyone else with a tale as disjointed ...
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    16,26 €

  • Beth’s Christmas Wish
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Seven year old Beth Renshaw has waited three long years for her father to come home from the Second World War. Three year old twins, Susie and Sarah only know their father from a photo on the mantelpiece.It’s December 1945 and the war is over, but there is still chaos in Europe. Many families don’t know if their loved ones survived. the small family hasn’t heard from Corporal P...
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    11,63 €

  • Who stole Christmas?
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Bella was very confused. It was nearly Christmas Day and there were no presents under the tree in their house. Both her parents  had been acting a little odd.No matter how hard she tried, Bella couldn’t find any sign of Christmas coming to her house this year. Her friends were all very excited about what they were going to get, but no-one was talking about it at her place. She ...
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    11,72 €

  • Izzy and Pudding the Cat
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Izzy has just turned five years old. It will soon be time to start school. She had a really wonderful birthday party with her friends. Now, Mum and Dad have brought home a baby brother. Izzy likes her new brother, but she is bored playing on her own. She decides to take her cat, Pudding, for a walk in the new pram, but she has forgotten the rule about being safe.When she gets l...
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    14,53 €

  • The frog that hiccupped
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Fraser is a shy frog. He has just moved with his mum and dad to a new pond. Meeting new frogs make him nervous. When he’s nervous he hiccups. When he hiccups all sorts of things happen.How will he make new friends?  ...
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    11,16 €

  • Dusty Bunny’s Very Important Job
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Dusty Bunny has a very important task.  He is going to do his very best. His friends will help. His father has fallen down and 'broken his head'. Dusty isn't sure what that means, but Father does look quite odd.Father Bunny needs Dusty to take over his job. The good news is that he only works one day a year. The bad news is...  ...
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    10,55 €

  • Madam Iris Bigglesworth
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    I am Madame Iris BigglesworthI’m a Very Important CatIn the kingdom where I liveThere’s no dispute about thatA book poem about a superior cat with elegant airs and two fine servants, Kyle and Jemina. She has many adventures including a green space creature that arrives in the dark night.  ...
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    11,72 €

  • A Tabby Never Forgets
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Tabby was the tiniest kitten Chelsea ever had.She fed the kitten with a small syringe. Tabby needed so much love. Tabby meowed and cried through the night.Chelsea woke and fed her. It wasn’t long before Tabby put weight on. She had a big appetite for a tiny kitten. She also had a talent for mischief.Tabby developed one very alarming habit that nearly made a nervous wreck out of...
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    9,83 €

  • Callan the Chameleon
    Linda Ruth Brooks / Tony Attwood
    Callan the Chameleon lived in a tall lilly pilly tree with pink tipped leaves. The leaves of the lilly pilly tree grow very thick. Callan felt safe in the rustling tree that was home. He didn’t like to be seen at all. Everywhere he went he checked to see if he was blending in with the bush around him.Uniquely Australian, the story revolves around Callan and his bush animal frie...
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    14,45 €

  • Under the Bracken Fern
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Georgia hides under the bracken fern. Her mother hits her to make her good. The nice man down the road gives her lollies that make her sleepy. Sometimes her brother Jackson hides her in his wardrobe. Her best friend Mittens the cat, listens to all her secrets.     On her first day at school her special pencils are stolen. Afraid she will be in very big trouble, she runs away to...
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    10,76 €

  • Waltzing Matilda
    Jo Tregellis / Linda Ruth Brooks / Victoria Norton
    In this uniquely Australian anthology of short stories we traverse the country known by Australians as the ‘wide brown land’. You will be introduced to a Bachelors & Spinsters Ball, memories of yesteryear’s Cracker Nights, Aussie nicknames and the dangers of our wildlife, all written by gifted sassy women who have learned to live in a harsh, unforgiving land with irreverent hum...
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    11,30 €

  • The great Australian shed
    George Townsend / Linda Ruth Brooks / Lowell Tarling
    In Australia there are a number of iconic buildings and structures, including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge and a number of churches and town halls.Australian sheds are equally iconic and represent a way of life unique to this country. Our sheds have many forms ranging from hay sheds, farm sheds, chook sheds, backyard sheds. Then there are woolsheds, (also known...
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    11,17 €

  • The Unprize
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    They met on New Year’s Eve—the most romantic night of the year. Jack Devon is in town to present a prize on the Sydney Harbour foreshore. He’s enchanted by a free-spirted woman organising a photo shoot for her friend’s catering business. She foils his attempts to charm her and asks if he was named after a ham sandwich. That’s when Jack knows he wants her. He’s thrilled when Che...
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    11,45 €

  • The frog that hiccupped
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Fraser is a shy frog. He has just moved with his mum and dad to a new pond. Meeting new frogs make him nervous. When he’s nervous he hiccups. When he hiccups all sorts of things happen. How will he make new friends?   ...
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    15,97 €

  • A broken hallelujah
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    The hospital looked like a monument to a bygone era. Northside Private nestled in bushland in a quiet outer suburb of the city. Built early in the 20th Century it resembled the gracious stately homes of the Deep South in America.An essence of charm permeated the three-storey building, from the corridors to the vast verandas that faced north. White veiled sisters sailed serenely...
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    16,98 €

  • Behind Whispering Hands
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    The Belmores have it all.A beautiful family, wealth and status. Originally from the country, they built their reputation and business on hard work and social prominence in the community.Angie and James, with their four children, live in the best suburb in the city, but when Angie's mother, Iris, begins to suffer from dementia, family secrets become harder to hide.One by one...
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    15,05 €

  • We are Australian
    Gail Hennessy / Linda Ruth Brooks / Magdalena Ball
    Earthquake, a National Disaster Area and a volcano are all here. Along with friendships, partings, love and estrangement—the gamut of the human experience.We meet an indigenous family fighting to learn the truth about a loved one’s death while serving his country. A son remembers a war-weary father who marched the Kokoda Trail, and a mother shares the joy of her three children....
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    21,81 €

  • Callan the Chameleon
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Callan the Chameleon lived in a tall lilly pilly tree with pink tipped leaves. The leaves of the lilly pilly tree grow very thick. Callan felt safe in the rustling tree that was home.Uniquely Australian, this story revolves around Callan and his bush animal friends, Emily the Echidna, Kyle the Koala, Katie the Kookaburra, Wesley the  Wombat, Freya the Frilled Necked Lizard and ...
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    30,05 €

  • Scarlett doesn’t live here anymore
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Brady Harcourt returns to his hometown with his teenage daughter, Ebony, three years after the death of his wife. But instead of being the answer to his problems, the seachange looks like unravelling his family. Nothing is the way he remembered it. To make matters worse, he has to deal with Emma, a community nurse who’d give a Bolshevik a run for their money.Fifteen year old Eb...
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    14,85 €

  • Under the Bracken Fern
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Georgia hides under the bracken fern. Her mother hits her to make her good. The nice man down the road gives her lollies that make her sleepy. Sometimes her brother Jackson hides her in his wardrobe. Her best friend Mittens the cat, listens to all her secrets.On her first day at school her special pencils are stolen. Afraid she will be in very big trouble, she runs away to the ...
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    26,03 €

  • My Left Side
    Darlene Linda Jones-Brooks
    Author Darlene Linda Jones-Brooks has been through a lot in her life-and, strangely enough, many of the worst physical experiences have happened on the left side of her body.When she was thirteen, a cousin accidentally stabbed her in the wrist. As an adult, she got caught in the crossfire of random shooting and lost half her left kidney due to the resulting injury. Later, a sev...
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    10,77 €

  • I’m not broken, I’m just different & Wings to fly
    Ms Linda Ruth Brooks
    Living with someone on the autism spectrum is like watching a child trying to play hopscotch when they can’t see the squares, and everyone else can. This new compilation of I'm not broken, I'm just different & Wings to fly takes us to the heart of living with a child with on the autism spectrum, inviting us to see life through the eyes of others. For early fans of Brook...
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    15,50 €

  • A Curious & Inelegant Childhood (An Australian Story)
    Ms Linda Brooks / Ms Linda Ruth Brooks
    In this fast paced, often hilarious memoir, Linda shares her childhood memories of growing up in rural Australia in the Fifties and Sixties. This tightly woven collection contains the warm and insightful reminiscences of a curious child fascinated by the world and its people, having a joyous passion for life, and an irrepressible thirst for answers. With fearless, self deprecat...
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    14,70 €

  • A Curious & Inelegant Childhood (An Australian Story)
    Ms Linda Ruth Brooks
    In this fast paced, often hilarious memoir, Linda shares her childhood memories of growing up in rural Australia in the Fifties and Sixties. This tightly woven collection contains the warm and insightful reminiscences of a curious child fascinated by the world and its people, having a joyous passion for life, and an irrepressible thirst for answers. With fearless, self deprecat...
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    9,13 €

  • Snippets from an Ordinary Life
    Linda Brooks
    Lily is 60 and wondering what to do with the rest of her life. As 60 is the new 40, there is a lot of it left to live... so what is she to do with it?She could join something, take up a new interest, learn a language, all these options that people were forever suggesting to her. Surely there was more to life than this. She was not ready for shuffleboard or cribbage just yet, th...
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    9,91 €


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