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Confessions of a Minor Poet - by Phil Bown

Phil Brown tells all (well almost all) in this rollicking account of his career in literature and journalism from The Morning Bulletin in Rockhampton to Melbourne’s Sunday Age and back to The Courier-Mail in Brisbane. He shares his challenges as a young surfer foolishly yearning to be a poet and his personal struggles on the road to becoming a writer with a fluctuating passion for poetry and a top drawer full of rejection slips.

There are the seminal friendships with poets Bruce Dawe and Les Murray and a cavalcade of characters from the world of arts and letters – Barry Humphries, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Craig, Alain de Botton, Richard E. Grant and a cavalcade of characters he meets (and interviews) along the way, for better and occasionally, worse.

Confessions of a Minor Poet is a hugely entertaining memoir that shows us all how the life of a writer can be frustrating, even enraging but ultimately life-enriching. This is a vital, wild and affectionate ride across Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria, from the seventies to now.

‘What a life. What a book. When it’s not making your ribs rattle with laughter, it’s making your heart ache with all the pathos and poetry. A memory box of jewels from a true Brisbane treasure.’ – Trent Dalton

How to Have a Healthy Baby: Conversations With My Daughter

Winner of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award 2023 and the NYC Big Book Award for the Pregnancy & Childbirth category in 2024.
Are you planning on starting or adding to your family? Have you been trying to conceive and things just aren't working out? Or are you already pregnant and want to make sure you do everything you can to support the health of your baby? This book provides answers to your questions.

The Author, Dagmar Ganser instils years of her medical experience along with thorough scientific research which cultivates into a significant resource for all prospective parents.

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The Kowloon Kid - A Hong Kong Childhood

By Phil Brown - Author

From the author of Travels with My Angst and Any Guru Will Do, a vivid, nostalgic and funny memoir of growing up in Hong Kong in the 1960s. 

Phil Brown’s life begins in small-town Australia – Maitland NSW to be precise – but in 1963 his father Ted hankers to return to the Hong Kong of his childhood and to cash in on a construction boom in the burgeoning colony.

'An exquisite love letter to Hong Kong.' Ross Fitzgerald 

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