Life on the Victorian Railways, Nick Anchen
An informative and detailed look at life working for the Victorian Railways through the words of those who lived it.
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A Spectacle of Dust, Pete Postlethwaite
A candid and vibrant autobiography that was completed not long before he died, the story of Pete Postlethwaite is a good read.
Still Alice, Lisa Genova
Still Alice is a fictional book about Alice, a highly intelligent professor and researcher, who gets Alzheimer’s disease at the incredibly young age of around fifty.
Clarkson on Cars, Jeremy Clarkson
With Clarkson on the cover, there’s a good chance you’re for a read with much humour and wit, and I wasn’t wrong.
Then There Was Her, Sophie Cachia
What I thought was a novel turned out to be a mini biography of a very interesting minor celebrity.
Advertising and Promotion
An Integrated Marketing and Communications Perspective. A fascinating look into the ins and outs of the advertising world.
Ads That Made Australia
This book covers the role of advertising from when the first newspapers and bill posters were published in Australia until television. It covers in much detail the development of commerce along with advertising.
A Girl From Shep: A Memoir
A look at through the 1950s in Shepparton and other places, through the eyes of a local biographer.
Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou
The behind the scenes corporate deception within Theranos, a Silicon Valley start up that lost investors money and cost patients their lives.
Walking in the Light, Ken Duncan
Walking in the Light has many beautiful wide landscape photos taken by the renowned Australian photographer Ken Duncan.