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Infernal Tramps #author Alex Grass
2w ago00:10:13Tap to summarizeAlex Grass's Infernal Tramps: Tales of Weird Terror ....A boy discovers his father's oracular grotesque in a secret dungeon below their family funeral home.An antique spiked collar transforms Philadelphia into a city that worships a dead dog.A video game dominates the market for years and then disappears, except for one man's memories of its horrors.A mother with a trunkful of hungry, inhuman babies tracks down the family that abandoned them.The warden of a penal colony offers to pardon a murderer, but only if the inmate can find the antidote to the poison wine the warden gave him.A wealthy young woman receives a surgical implant that delivers more than just a shapely body.Step into a world of fleshly titillation and fresh terror, a dimension of blood and consequence. But buyer beware! Crack the spine and these dark tales are not so easily forgotten.Turn back now, if you can, or else become one of the... Infernal Tramps!Alex Grass is an American horror and dark‑fantasy author from known for works such as Black River Lantern, Dreck, A Boy’s Hammer, and the 2026 collection Infernal Tramps.To connect with Alex ....https://www.infernaltramps.com/https://www.instagram.com/infernaltramps/
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RIPPA Young Pilgram #author PJ Laverty
2w ago00:07:04Tap to summarizeJoey Rippa is one of the most naturally gifted footballers England's Second Division has ever seen. He's also one of the least interested in that fact.When Plymouth Argyle's pre-season tour brings him back to his homeland, Australia, for the first time since leaving his beloved Merri Bay, Rippa arrives late, sunburnt, and carrying an impressive holiday paunch. His long-suffering manager Bobby Noll - the man who discovered him surfing a wave in Western Australia and somehow turned him into Plymouth's Player of the Year - is not impressed.Back in England, Rippa is navigating his second season as a professional footballer with his trademark combination of natural genius and spectacular indifference. He's living in a backpackers hostel populated by 52 nationalities, moonlighting in an underground lawn bowls operation of questionable legality, and trying to hold together a Plymouth side with genuine ambitions of promotion and a maiden trip to Wembley.There's just one problem. Actually, there are several.Rolf Bonkovic, the notoriously unimpressed Australian national coach, is finally paying attention, which means Rippa needs to start performing like someone who actually wants to play international football. His sponsor, the magnificently eccentric Thurston Kwibble, has ideas about how Rippa should spend his spare time that range from the mildly unusual to the potentially criminal. And then there's Ned Buckley - younger, fitter, more dedicated, annoyingly talented, and seemingly sent from the universe specifically to make Rippa's life difficult.Buckley is everything Rippa is not: disciplined, professional, and disturbingly wholesome. He meditates. He keeps a journal. He volunteers in Kenya during the off-season. He also, infuriatingly, appears to be the better footballer.As the season builds toward a dramatic cup run against Rippa's old nemesis West Ham United, and with his international future hanging in the balance, Rippa is forced to confront the question Bobby Noll has been asking since the day they met on a beach in Western Australia: does he actually want any of this?Young Pilgrim is the second book in P.J. Laverty's RIPPA! series, a comedy about football, freedom, and a young man who would rather be anywhere else, doing almost anything else, and who is somehow brilliant at the one thing he can't escape. Set against the backdrop of early 1990s English football, with Italia 90 still fresh in the memory and the Premier League just around the corner, it captures a sport and an era on the cusp of change, filtered through the eyes of someone almost entirely unbothered by either.Funny, warm, and sharply observed, Young Pilgrim builds on the world established in the first book in the series, RIPPA! while standing fully on its own feet. New readers are welcome. Joey Rippa will eventually get around to welcoming them too, once he's finished his surf.To conenct with PJ Laverty ....https://www.instagram.com/p_j_laverty/https://www.fairplaypublishing.com.au/products/rippa-young-pilgrim
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Evil Goods #author Marcus Bone
3w ago00:08:50Tap to summarizeA MAGICAL WORLD. A RELUCTANT HERO. A RAGTAG TEAM.It’s already been a bad day for Richard Parry, and that’s before he’s shot. After that it just gets worse.Thrown into a surreal world, he is seen by some as the manifestation of a prophecy and bringer of doom who might need to be soundly terminated. On the positive side, the Ministry of Insecurity think he will be useful on a suicide mission.Richard and an ill-matched team now venture into the stranger, and more than a bit weirder, parts of this alternate world to discover a traitor intent on derailing the mission and that the ultimate villain is a figure from his own past...To connect with Marcus ....https://marcusbone.com/
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Made for Walking #author Richard Smith
3w ago00:10:06Tap to summarizeMade for Walking is a contemporary novel. It follows veteran television actor Syd Price, whose career is disrupted after being dropped from a long-running soap. He teams up with Chloe Anderson, a young model and social media influencer, to film riverside walks, but their partnership develops into a conflict over fame, ageing, and the changing media landscape. Described as a novel being infused with music while exploring friendship, modern life, and generational tensions.To connect with Richard ....https://richardsmithwrites.com/https://www.youtube.com/@UCMQDFyjMpN_kxdniho8gIwg https://www.instagram.com/richardsmithwriteshttps://www.tiktok.com/@richardsmithwrites
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The Girl Who Climbed on Rooves #author Sue Woolfe
3w ago00:10:36Tap to summarizeA wild girl who once climbed on rooves. A secret never spoken. A catastrophe that changed everything.Frances adored and feared her beautiful, unpredictable mother. No one ever explained the sudden rages or the silence that settled over the family.Years later, now a composer, Frances looks back, searching her memories for the truth. As fragments of the past come into focus, she begins to uncover the hidden life her mother never revealed — a childhood of freedom and defiance, and a wound that shaped everything that followed.Luminous and deeply affecting, The Girl Who Climbed on Rooves is a powerful novel from Sue Woolfe about mothers and daughters, memory and silence, and the mysterious ways creativity can emerge from experience.To connect with Sue ...https://suewoolfe.com.au/pages/the-girl-who-climbed-on-rooves/
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The Mould Maker #author Tami Lou Castillo
3w ago00:13:15Tap to summarizeThe Mould Maker: The Connie Beavers story: A life of secrecy, courage and transformationI looked up in wonder at the domes lining the ceiling of the Cinerama theatre, so proud my dad was their maker. The mould maker.Tami Lou grows up longing to be close to her father, only to watch him drift further into the self-destructive storm of a long-held secret. Through multi-day absences, divorce and remarriage, Tami Lou continues to follow her dad, willing to share him with his new family so long as she gets her share.But when his unreliability descends into reckless ambitions, bankruptcy and near-homelessness, Tami Lou has to accept that he may never become the father she longs for.Thirty years later, Tami Lou is finally let into her father’s secret life: where Roy once stood, now there is Connie.Roy spent his life creating moulds for beautiful things yet was never able to do the same for himself. Connie is a woman finally comfortable in her own skin after sixty years in the wrong body.But can Connie’s courage in becoming the person she truly is heal decades worth of hurt between parent and child? Or is it too late?This is the story of a daughter’s search for her authentic father and the unconditional love that shapes us – if only we allow it.To connect with Tami ....https://www.tamiloucastillo.com/https://www.instagram.com/tamiloucastilloauthor/https://hemburybooks.com.au/book/the-mould-maker/
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The Connect Effect #author Kylie Paatch
3w ago00:11:42Tap to summarizeThe Connect Effect: How to Build Loyalty, Ownership and Engagement with Your LeadersYou became a leader to have an impact. Except your leadership team isn't making that easy.You're a driven and committed leader, so why are you still battling a leadership team that won't get on board the way you need them to? They're not engaging at the level expected, nor are they taking the level of responsibility or initiative their role requires. Instead, they are disconnected, disengaged and sometimes dismissive-from the work, the direction and from you.The Connect Effect gives you a clear, practical approach to building stronger one-on-one relationships that deepen connection, inspire ownership and help leaders step up and own their role fully.This book will elevate your leadership and the people you need most beside you.To connect with Kylie ....https://kyliepaatsch.com.au/https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyliepaatsch/https://www.instagram.com/kyliepaatschleadership/
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Southern Highlands Writers Festival, interview with Artistic Director Michaela Bolzan
3w ago00:15:31Tap to summarizeFor the first time on Yellow Shelf, we're shining a spotlight on a literary festival rather than a single #book or #author .In this very special episode, we chat with the fabulous Michaela Bolzan, Artistic Director of the Southern Highlands Writers Festival, about the festival, and what it takes to bring one of Australia's most inspiring regional literary festivals to life.Michaela shares the history and vision behind the festival, how the program is curated, and why bringing readers, writers, and big ideas together matters now more than ever. We also explore what attendees can expect, the joy of discovering new voices, and the unique role literary festivals play in fostering connection, creativity, conversation, and community.Whether you're an avid reader, an aspiring writer, or simply curious about Australia's vibrant literary scene, this conversation offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the people and passion that make a writers' festival unforgettable.The 2026 Southern Highlands Writers Festival will be held from 23rd to 26th July.To learn more about the SHWF 2026 ....https://www.shwf.com.au/https://www.shwf.com.au/programhttps://www.instagram.com/shwf.official/https://www.facebook.com/SouthernHighlandsWritersFestival
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The Quick-Start Guide to Your First Property #author Rachelle Kroon
4w ago00:08:50Tap to summarizeThe Quick-Start Guide to Your First Property: Pick Up Your Keys Simpler, Smarter and SoonerYou’ve done everything right ...got a job, cut back on spending, saved consistently ....and yet property prices keep pulling further away. Like millions of other young Australians, you feel locked out, watching the dream slip away despite your best efforts. Let’s get real: saving a 20% deposit isn’t practical in today’s market. You need better strategies. That’s where The Quick-Start Guide to Your First Property comes in.In this essential playbook, personal finance expert Glen James and top mortgage broker Rachelle Kroon share the hacks that are actually getting first-time buyers into the market right now. Full of practical tips and none of the fluff, this book shows readers that buying property is still possible, even in today’s ultracompetitive climate. The market has changed. Your strategy for getting started needs to change with it. How are you going to get started quick?To connect with Rachelle .....https://www.instagram.com/rachellekroon_money/https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelle-kroonhttps://www.spherehomeloans.com.au/resourceshttps://www.spherehomeloans.com.au/rachelle-kroon
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Sleep First #author Dr Jemma King
4w ago00:09:55Tap to summarizeSleep First: Sleep Smarter, Think Sharper, Feel BetterSleep shapes everything: how you feel, think, perform and live. Yet most of us treat it as an afterthought, something we'll get to after everything else is handled. The reality? Nothing works properly without sleep. Not your focus. Not your mood. Not your health. Not your relationships.In Sleep First, Dr Jemma King, expert researcher in human behaviour and sleep science, reveals what's really going on when your head hits the pillow ― and why optimising those hours changes everything that follows. You'll learn why your brain needs to clean itself every night, why you keep waking at 3am, how your coffee changes your neurochemistry and why your phone is sabotaging your rest. Most importantly, you'll build your Sleep First Formula: a personalised strategy based on your own daily habits, challenges and goals.Whether you want to perform at your peak or just feel better every day, this book is your guide to making sleep work for you. Good sleep changes everything. Sleep First will help you get it.To connect with Jemma ....www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jemma-king-phd-76013328/https://www.instagram.com/dr.jemma.king/Website: jemmakingbio-pa.com.au
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