Calm Through Chaos, by first-time author Tracy Busse who is a heart patient advocate following her life-changing experience, is a forthcoming release to hit shelves this coming October and already it’s getting positive advance reviews for its sincere and heartfelt telling of Tracy Busse’s experiences following the night she is found unresponsive, learning later her heart had stopped due to a previously undiagnosed heart condition. In her debut book she tells of how she recovered emotionally and physically, including practical skills that are accessible to us all and enable us to live a richer and more vibrant life filled with joy, creativity, compassion and resilience.

Tanya Hall, CEO and Founder of Hearts4Heart, gave the below review,

Thank you so much for the honour of reading your book. It truly is such a gift and I simply couldn’t put it down. It is so difficult to condense all the events and emotions that we experience on our journey and then what is required to manage a chronic disease as well as living a fulfilled life. You have articulated that beautifully.  I love how you manage to capture all of it in such a gentle way and then give practical advice on what to do and things that you can easily refer back to … I have to say, I am finding it difficult to find words to capture the brilliance in this book.

A ’must have’ book for anyone dealing with a medical condition, (especially heart related) or for anyone wanting to live the best life they can live. It is such a gift! It offers practical, simple tools that can make a huge difference in your life. A book to be savoured.

Hearts4Heart was founded in 2011 and is a National Organisation that focuses on supporting, educating and advocating for Australians living with heart disease – since its foundation it has become an expert voice in the field of patient education and support for people experiencing heart disease and arrhythmia. Hearts4Heart is the only cardiac patient advocacy group actively involved in market access discussions with the Australian Government and Tanya Hall has received the 2012 CALI (Community, Action, Leadership and Inspiration) award and was a finalist for the Body and Soul Woman of the Year in 2013. More recently she won the Medical Technology Association of Australia Outstanding Achievement Award 2015 and the Global Bakken Invitation Award.

To learn more about Hearts4Heart please check out their website, their Facebook and you can donate to their cause HERE (Donations $2 or more are tax deductible)

Not even on shelves yet and already on the waves, John Urquhart will be sitting down tomorrow morning with the bright and bubbly Jo Printz from 10am tomorrow on ABC Western Victoria 91.7FM (Program: Mornings with Jo Printz) to chat about his outstanding memoir, Meet Japan.

Meet Japan is his first book and explores the heart and culture of Japan through a selection of letters written between 1974 – 85, written by John and his late wife Lois after their young family was assigned to live in Japan in the 1970s for John’s work with Borthwick and Sons to market meat – which until then had never been part of the local diet. Meet Japan does not centre on John’s work however, it goes so much deeper with sincerity, heart and respect to share and recount the beauty of Japan, the local customs and to tell the story of how two people and their young family came to experience Japan all their own.

If you would like to tune in but cannot pick up this signal/prefer to listen digitally their interview will be streamed live on Radio ABC Western Vic Live

Blurb:

Fancy a haircut next to a lady having her face shaved?
What about a young lady escorting a family through a bath-house full of naked old men?
Or shopping at the green grocer’s, with the basket-style till dangling from the ceiling?

Welcome to living in Japan where unexpected joys and revelations are just around the next corner. Inspired by a selection of letters written between 1974-85, Meet Japan is a journey of enlightenment as seen through the eyes of John and Lois Urquhart. Their Japan was in the mountains, valleys, villages, back streets and everyday hustle and bustle of ordinary people. Meet Japan gives an insight into the country’s deeply spiritual relationship with nature, its beauty, the evolution of its ‘food life’ and culture, and explores the soul of this fascinating country.

To experience Meet Japan for yourself you’re in luck as it launches later this month!
To follow ABC Western Victoria, please check out their Facebook, Website or their Live Streaming Services.

ISBN: 9780648242673

“For many of us, the conditioning of past experiences, the conditioning stored in our memory as images, limits the capacity of our mind. For many of us, to actively work on training our mind and reprogramming our mind is therefore a key step in freeing us from past limitations and opening us to future possibilities. Clearly, it is the mind that changes everything…” – Excerpt from The Mind that Changes Everything, written by Dr Ian Gawler (first printed in 2011 by Brolga Publishing)

The invaluable writings of Dr Ian Gawler in The Mind that Changes Everything are based on modern research and current studies and it’s aim is to inspire, energise and inform one’s own mind’s potential. He is an authority on how this can be achieved with his many qualifications and the real-world application of his own practices during his remarkable recovery from cancer several years ago.

If you would like to learn more you can follow Dr Ian Gawler on his website – www.gawler.org, where you can then read his latest blog and all previous blog posts.

His next presentations are:
Medicine of the Mind
Date: Friday 24th August
Time: 6.45 – 9.30pm
Further details/Booking

Health, Healing and Wellbeing – Seeking to use the Power of the Mind
Date: Saturday 25th August
Time: 1.30 – 4.30pm
Further Details/Booking

You can purchase The Mind that Changed Everything from all good bookstores or order directly by contacting markzocchi@brolgapublishing.com.au
ISBN: 9781925367256

On a brisk August Wednesday afternoon to a packed library in the heart of the South Eastern Suburb of Nunawading, Mal Walden was the focus of captivated audience as he spoke of his 60 year career as Australia’s longest-serving news presenter, his experiences in radio and television journalism and two current titles, The News Man (Brolga Publishing, 2016) and Good News! (Brolga Publishing, 2017).

If you would like to keep up with Whitehorse Manningham Libraries, jump on their website or follow them on Facebook.

ISBNs:
The News Man: 9781925367492
Good News: 9781925367928

If you’re in the area of or surrounds of Forster, New South Wales you are in for a treat!
G. J. Maher, author of Moon Over the Mediterranean is going to be giving an author talk at Forster Library on August 20, 2018!

Moon Over the Mediterranean has been a phenomenal hit with copies being loved and read all over Australia and Europe – it tells the fascinating story of Alexander, a conscientious objector in 1960s Holland. He embarks on a lifetime adventure, travelling the hippie trail through Greece, India, Nepal, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel and beyond. Keeping his sketch pad at hand he always has a good book to enjoy and engages in deep philosophical discussions with fellow travellers, as well as falling in and out of love along the way. As he matures, Alexander becomes more involved with the world around him, helping displaced persons, building clinics, schools and rehabilitation centres, assisting children who have been abducted as child soldiers and abused in horrifying ways. Finally, he embarks on several monumental projects where he attempts to change the way people think towards bigotry and asylum seekers. Moon over the Mediterranean is a feel-good book despite the difficult issues it confronts. It tells the story of one man’s struggle to make the world a better place and live a compassionate life.

Event Details:  Monday, August 20 2018
10:30am – 11:30am

Location:          Forster Library
4-12 Breese Parade
Forster, NSW 2428

Follow this link to book:
Eventbrite.com.au | G. J. Maher – Moon Over the Mediterranean

ISBN: 9781925367898