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Gotta Love This Country!
Boxing in Australia
Peter FitzSimons
RRP $29.99
Grantlee Kieza
RRP $39.99
Grantlee Kieza’s book looks at boxing in
Australia from early European settlement to
the present day. It describes all the famous
fights and all the best-known Aussie boxers,
including Lionel Rose, Les Darcy, Jeff Fenech
and Kostya Tszyu. Boxing in Australia is packed
with personalities, stories and stats from boxing
history, presented in an accessible style.
Peter FitzSimons celebrates the good, the
generous, the kind and the downright strange in
this hilarious and heart-warming collection of
stories from daily life and grassroots sporting fields
around the country. It’s enough for you to puff out
your chest and say, Gotta Love This Country!
Due 18th November
It Happened on a Fishing Trip
Legacy
Paddy O’Reilly
RRP $29.99
Tim Cahill
RRP $39.99
We do it in ponds, creeks, great rivers, the deep
sea. Some fall under the spell of the chase,
some spend a lifetime trying to tie the perfect
fly, some just like sitting on the pier for a few
hours. These are the stories of the fishing
adventures and misadventures of amateurs
and pros, one-time anglers, families and
friends, in the stunning Australian landscape.
With his trademark honesty and directness,
Tim reflects on what it takes to make it to the
top: the sacrifices, the physical cost, the mental
stamina, the uncompromising self-belief and selfdetermination, the ruthlessness,
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but also the decency, the integrity,
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and the generosity.
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Unemployable
Chris Judd
RRP $39.99
Jason Boulter
RRP $80.00
Unemployable is the story of a bunch of misfits,
led by Australia’s Hill brothers who went on to
become industry pioneers, forming the skate,
street and surf company, Globe International.
Chris Judd’s autobiography is a unique journey into
the game, describing with extraordinary candour
what it’s like to climb to the highest pinnacle and
to experience the full measure of heartache and
failure that inevitably accompanies
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more than a decade of playing at
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this elite level.
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Due 1st december
Chappy
Bruce Postle: sport
Bruce Postle
RRP $29.99
Paul Chapman
Jon Anderson
RRP $39.95
For more than five decades, multiaward winning press photographer
Bruce Postle captured significant moments in
Australian life. His collection of images is a
national treasure chronicling Australian life through
the golden age of press photography. Sport
presents Bruce Postle’s greatest sporting images.
Chappy is a celebration of the career of much
admired AFL footballer Paul Chapman and the highs
and lows of two of the AFL’s most revered clubs,
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