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A Wink From the Universe by Martin Flanagan
Category: Sports and Hobbies
The Western Bulldogs' 2016 premiership came from nowhere - they were the club with no luck, no stars, no right to win, no culture of success. They were the rank underdogs and they swept to victory on an unprecedented tide of goodwill that washed over the nation. Only Martin Flanagan could bring to life ...Show more
Archies Letter: An ANZAC Day Story by Martin Flanagan
Category: Children's Educational
On Anzac Day 2010, a 96-year-old man in Hobart, a returned soldier from World War II, wrote a letter to the local paper thanking the people who were going to that morning's dawn service. Who was this man? Why did he write this letter? Archie's Letter tells the story of an ordinary man who went off to fi ...Show more
Last Quarter: A Trilogy by FLANAGAN Martin
Category: Sports and Hobbies
Martin Flanagan has been writing Australian football for 25 years. The Last Quarter brings together three of his books that sum up that period. In 1970, he re-created the grand final of that year, said to be the best of the 20th century, by talking to the players, coaches and umpire. Southern Sky, Weste ...Show more
On Listening: Penguin Special by Martin Flanagan
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Penguin Specials
'If you're quiet enough, quiet as a tree, people will camp beneath your branches and tell you stories you would never otherwise hear.' Martin Flanagan shares how listening has been an essential part of his life from when he started hitch-hiking at fourteen through to writing a book about Aboriginal foot ...Show more
Peter Kennedy The Man Who Threatened Rome by Martin Flanagan
Category: Biography
As you may know, Father Peter Kennedy, of Saint Mary's Catholic Church in South Brisbane, was sacked by his bishop in February of 2009 - essentially for being too good a parish priest, and stretching the bounds and definitions of community to include non-Catholics, gay and divorced souls, and etc. Peter ...Show more
Richo by Matthew Richardson; Martin Flanagan
Category: Sports and Hobbies
"Matthew Richardson, known as Richo, retired in 2009 as the most popular player in the AFL. Why was that? The careers of other great players like Nathan Buckley and Michael Voss amount to a sort of sporting perfection. Richo's career didn't. He was fallible. His kicking was flawed and he had an inabilit ...Show more
THE FIGHT by FLANAGAN MARTIN & UREN TOM
Category: Biography Memoir
This book is an answer to the despair of Mark Latham's Diaries. Tom Uren is a child of the Great Depression whose politics were forged by his experience of the Burma Railway where he served under Weary Dunlop and saw how engendering a collective spirit saved lives. From 1976-77, Tom Uren was deputy lead ...Show more
The Art of Pollination: The Irrepressible Jane Tewson by Martin Flanagan
Category: Languages and Reference
'This moving book masterfully gets to the heart of what makes Jane Tewson and Igniting Change such unique, uniting powers. I've never met anyone quite like Jane. She is an unassuming force of nature who quietly goes about transforming the world and lighting up lives wherever she goes.' - Sir Richard Bra ...Show more
The Call by FLANAGAN MARTIN
Category: Fiction
Thomas Wentworth Wills is an Australian Icarus. Having grown up among the Djabwurring people in western Victoria, he was sent to the Rugby school in England. Returning in 1856, he promptly revolutionised colonial cricket and opened the door for the evolution of the indigenous game we know as Australian ...Show more
The Call by Martin Flanagan
Category: Fiction
A novel which takes us to the birth of sport in this nation and portrays the life of Tom Wills, a true symbol of reconciliation.