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Austen Tayshus: Merchant of Menace by Ross Fitzgerald
Category: Biography
Powerfully written by controversial author-broadcaster Ross Fitzgerald and comedy writer Rick Murphy, Austen Tayshus: Merchant of Menace is a no-holds-barred biography of Australia's edgiest comedian; a man rightly regarded as the nation's most dangerous and subversive performer. Austen Tayshus is the c ...Show more
Fifty Years Sober:An Alcoholic's Journey: An alcoholic's journey by Ross Fitzgerald
Category: Biography
To celebrate 40 years of sobriety, Ross Fitzgerald published "My Name Is Ross" (2010) - the story of his battle with alcoholism. Although he has now succeeded in not drinking alcohol or using drugs for 50 years, in this revised and updated edition the author still calls himself an alcoholic, and pays ex ...Show more
Fools' Paradise: Life in an Altered State by Ross Fitzgerald
Category: Fiction
'Wake up, Australia,' Grafton Everest exhorts viewers every morning on Australia-wide breakfast television. This doesn't please those he attacks like wily former premier Hoogstraden, whose biography Grafton is forced into writing. Grafton's day job as Professor of LifeSkills and Hospitality is under thr ...Show more
Fred Paterson the Peoples Ch by Fitzgerald Ross
Category: Biography | Series: UQP Biography Ser.
In Australian history, F. W. Paterson remains the only Communist Party representative to be elected to any state or federal parliament. At the time it was said of Paterson that only one man was less likely ever to become Premier of Queensland, Johannes Bjelke-Petersen. A Rhodes Scholar and divinity stud ...Show more
Going Out Backwards: A Grafton Everest Adventure by Ross Fitzgerald; Ian McFadyen
Category: Fiction
Bumbling Mangoland academic, Professor Dr Grafton Everest, has been elected to the Australian Senate, without really knowing why, and due to the influx of weird Independents, finds himself holding the balance of power. Despite this, his personal life is a train wreck. A prostatectomy has left him impote ...Show more
Heartfelt Moments in Australian Rules Football by Ross Fitzgerald (Editor)
Category: Sports and Hobbies
"From the Introduction: As these thirty seven contributions about the most heartfelt moments in VFL/AFL demonstrate, Aussie Rules football cuts across all divides. Hence this book of original essays includes contributions by and about football players, supporters and administrators who are vastly differ ...Show more
MADE IN QUEENSLAND: A NEW HISTORY by Ross Fitzgerald, Lyndon Megarrity, David Symons
Category: Fiction
In 1859, Queensland formally separated from New South Wales and became an independent colony. Since then, it has grown into a dynamic state with extraordinary, diverse landscapes, a wealth of intellectual and physical resources and a population renowned for appreciating their unique lifestyle. Made in Q ...Show more
MADE IN QUEENSLAND: A NEW HISTORY by FITZGERALD ROSS ET AL
Category: Fiction
In 1859, Queensland formally separated from New South Wales and became an independent colony. Since then, it has grown into a dynamic state with extraordinary, diverse landscapes, a wealth of intellectual and physical resources and a population renowned for appreciating their unique lifestyle. Made in Q ...Show more
My Last Drink: 32 stories of recovering alcoholics by Fitzgerald Ross
Category: Personal Development
The notion of Last Drinks has entered deeply into the Australian lexicon, but there is another kind of Last Drink, the last one that an alcoholic takes before she or he gets sober. My Last Drink is a collection of inspiring and hitherto unpublished stories, original for this book, that canvass and expla ...Show more
My Name is Ross: An Alcoholics Journey by Ross Fitzgerald
Category: Biography
'I turn 65 on Christmas Day 2009. If I survive, I'll be 40 years sober. This means that I have had 40 more years on this planet than I otherwise would have had if I hadn't stopped drinking alcohol.' From his first drink at the age of fourteen Ross Fitzgerald has struggled with alcoholism.
Pablo Picasso: Structures of Invention by Pablo Picasso (Artist); Ross Finocchio (Foreword by); Michael FitzGerald (Foreword by); Bernard Ruiz Picasso (Text by); Rocío Robles Tardío (Text by)
Category: Art and Design
The triennial companion to Picasso's work from the collections of his immediate familyThis book presents an innovative new reading of Picasso's long artistic career. Instead of dividing his art into discrete stylistic periods, authoritative texts and lavish illustrations demonstrate the unity of his wor ...Show more