Jason Smith has been managing restaurants in Sydney for 25 years. His hard hitting tell all memoir takes you behind the scenes in hospitality from a waiter’s perspective. It includes all the secrets to running a good restaurant and dishes the dirt on what they all get up to when no one is looking, including the shenanigans. You will get an insight into the chefs, waiters, customers, tipping and everything you’ve always wanted to know.
Life is inevitable; nobody is free from complications of life. If you go through life challenges, it is your choice to play a victim and start looking for who to blame or rise above it and become a victor so do something to change where you are in life, if you don’t like it, only you can do that. You can’t control life, but you can control how you respond to life. Keep God first place in your life to achieve your purpose of existence. Through prayer and fasting, you can conquer the world and you will start seeing things through God’s [read more...]
Just a Simple Innkeeper follows the authors humble beginnings from a small town in Ireland who found himself immersed in the world of hospitality and hotel management, which allowed him to travel and work around the world and meet a diverse set of people. This is a fun and quite inspiring story with some funny yarns mixed with some life philosophies. The Author: Maurice Holland was born in Monaghan Ireland. He spent his entire working life in the hospitality industry. He lives in Brisbane with his wife, Cathie. They have three [read more...]
HEATHER CARTER’S honest memoir spans six decades of her life; revealing how her painful childhood of neglect, early depression, domestic violence and alcoholism; was endured and overcome with faith and compassion. Despite witnessing so much sadness in her life, Heather also saw the beauty. In this story of survival and transformation, she writes with vivid and humorous detail about the entangled lives of her large family, about her personal struggles with trauma and Bi Polar Disorder, and about the strange sort of peace she was [read more...]
Kismet fate – destiny the illusive puppeteer that manipulates the strings. It is 1997, and three years since apartheid was dismantled. A New South Africa has emerged, victorious. Opportunities abound and hope transcends, but for some the warped ideology of that era still lingers. Doctor Henry Keyler a TV panellist, is intent on promoting unity across the racial divides. Attractive and alluring, his co-panellist, attorney Lexie Lewin, has become a voice for abused women. For the most part, her marriage to the charismatic Steve [read more...]
Another great poetry book from John Campbell Gardiner. See other books available by John. The Dawn of Life and Other Australian Tales. Power of Plants. Antipodean Seasons.
Bronwyn Trotters 'Cedar Creek' – Book Two of The Trappers Promise trilogy, continues the intriguing story of Sarah Cole: A trapper, born and raised in the wilds of the Rockies. Winter has arrived with a vengeance! The trappers have left the mountain to get paid for their skins so they can get supplies to see them through next year’s trapping, but Sarah hates Cedar Creek. The day she and her son Thomas ride in, she clashes with new sheriff Christian Morgan, a man with a past he is trying hard to keep buried, and they become [read more...]
When 10-year-old James Pittar started having trouble seeing at night he could never have predicted that within a decade, his vision would be all but gone. For a kid that dreamed of representing his country, it was a hard blow. And for most people, it would have spelled the end of that dream. But not for James. Just a few months shy of his thirtieth birthday, James did what no blind person has ever done before – he swam the English Channel. It signalled a shift in his mindset – from that point onwards, he would never think of [read more...]
Author: David Watts Books: Killervolt and Boombox I had a new Goodreads 4 star review for Killervolt pop up last week. I attended a local collector event and sold just under a dozen books in 4 hours. I even had two returning readers spot me there and could not pay me fast enough to get their hands on the new Boombox. I'm also attending Supanova at the end of the month, which is a huge two day Sci-Fi gathering, this should be a big one for the books. The photos below are from the small 4-hour event:
Well done to Bronwyn Trotter becoming a finalist in the 2019 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest. What makes this remarkable is her book The Trappers Promise, was a first book in a series. This is unusual and all goes well for the Next book Cedar Creek coming soon.
