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  • Auld Hands: The Story of the Men Who Made Belfast Shipyards Great

    by Tom Thompson ...
    The story of shipbuilding in Belfast is known throughout the world: the great ships, including Titanic, HMS Belfast and SS Canberra; the towering cranes; its contribution to making Belfast a great industrial city. Less well known, but just as fascinating and illuminating, is the remarkable story of the Islandmen – the men who worked in the shipyards and built the world-renowned vessels.Author Tom ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Growing Up in the 60s

    by Tom Thompson ...
    From life in small New South Wales country towns to the glitter of Sydney, this memoir explores life in a changing Australia, from age 7 to 17. Especially written and recorded for ABC radio, this book evokes an innocent Australia through a quietly comic delivery, where we witness again holidays in quiet seaside villages, the days when newspapers were king, Decimal Currency Day was a big thing and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Australasian Artists at the French Salons

    by Tom Thompson ...
    From 1872 to 1939, a significant number of Australian and New Zealand artists were chosen for exhibition at the annual French Salons. The imprimatur of the Salons bestowed prestige, publicity and visibility, and increased an artist's saleability, both at home and abroad. But the character of the Salons fragmented over time and selection became coloured by the nature of the Salon and the values it ... Read more

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  • The Burns-Johnson Fight

    Sydney Stadium, Boxing Day, 1906

    by Tom Thompson ...
    Boxing Day lived up to its name in 1908 when Tommy Burns, the Heavyweight Champion of the World fought Jack Johnson the Coloured Champion of the World, at the Sydney Stadium, putting Australia on the international sporting map and changing boxing forever... Over time critics have moved to see that the events of Boxing Day 1908 in Sydney, when the acknowledged Champion of the World was defeated by ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Neon Line

    by Tom Thompson ...
    Thompson's city is Sydney, and perhaps the most impressive feature of his writing is the way the physical reality of the city is caught throughout the prose, and the power with which Thompson draws the skin of human relationships over this brutal and jagged landscape that cuts and moulds them. - Neil Armfield, ABC Radio Thompson's prose is fast and sharp and he creates in these episodes an ... Read more

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  • Horrie's Miscellany

    The Short Life of a Good Dog

    Edited by Tom Thompson ...
    Here is the story of Corporal Horrie, mascot for the 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion in World War II. This little Egyptian terrier saw Australian Army service in Egypt, Greece, Crete Syria and Palestine, coming home safely in his master's backpack in 1942. Over the next three years his master, Private James Moody extended his daily diary in correspondence with Ion Idriess, and the result was Horrie ... Read more

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  • Run Run Cricket Run

    America's Secret Wars in Laos

    by Tom Thompson ...
    Series series Casemate Fiction
    "Casemate has a long history of publishing high quality military history non-fiction. Lately, they have expanded their range of work to include well written novels using wartime settings." – WWII History MagazineYoung American pilots feel the weight of destiny as they are tasked with shutting down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos.1970—the height of the Vietnam War. A group of young Forward Air ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Beersheba 1917

    With the Australian Light Horse

    by Ion Idriess ...
    To help celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba on October 31 1917, this book offers nearly 100 unpublished photographs taken in the field by brothers Guy and Barney Hayden, of the 12th Light Horse. Both Lieutenants, the Haydons were at the forefront of the skirmish and the attack itself, and like all the Walers, their great horses Midnight and Polo ... Read more

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  • Phar Lap

    'Big Red' Souvenirs

    by Jack Spinty, Tom Thompson ...
    The first booklet published following the death of Phar Lap, the greatest of all Race Horses, is once again in print; this time augmented by a great selection of 'Big Red' Memorabilia, compiled by Tom Thompson from the auctions of jockeys Jim Pike, Billy Elliott and strapper Tommy Woodcock. With race day programs and souvenirs from his Melbourne Cup and Agua Calient triumphs, here is a fine ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Place of Refuge

    A Call From God To Serve Others

    by Tom Thompson ...
    The vision struck like a bolt of lighting. Tom Thompson had to pull off the highway to avoid an accident.His vision: an isolated rural farm where addicts could come and escape their lives, break free of addiction, and walk with God. They would learn to be sober and live out the scriptures in their daily lives.It was a vision from God—but merely a vision. Tom made it his life’s work to make the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Growing Up in the 60s

    by Tom Thompson ...
    Narrated by Tom Thompson ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 26 min

    Growing Up in the Sixties… from life in small country towns to the glitter of Sydney, this is Tom Thompson’s life in a changing Australia, aged 7 to 17. Especially written and recorded for ABC Radio, Tom evokes an innocent Australia through a quietly comic delivery. With musical shifts by Dog Trumpet and King Biscuit we can witness again the days when holidays were in quiet seaside villages, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Desert Column

    by Ion Idriess ...
    One hundred years after the charge of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba in October 1917...'The Desert Column is based on the diaries that he kept through out the war. Published in 1932, it is one of Idriess' earliest works. Harry Chauvel noted in the foreword that it was the only book of the campaign that to his knowledge was "viewed entirely from the private soldier's point of view"... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook