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A Wink From the Universe by Martin Flanagan
Category: Sport
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: Education
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: Sport
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: Non-Fiction | 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
Richo by Matthew Richardson; Martin Flanagan
Category: Sport
"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 Art of Pollination: The Irrepressible Jane Tewson by Martin Flanagan
Category: Biography
'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 - 3rd Edition by Martin Flanagan
Category: Australiana
Thomas Wentworth Wills is an Australian Icarus. Having grown up among the Djabwurrung 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 Empty Honour Board by Martin Flanagan
Category: Biography
A prison diary, a story of brotherly love, a journey of redemption, Martin Flanagan's compelling book about his boarding school days goes inside an experience many have had but few have talked about. In 1966, at the age of 10, Martin Flanagan was sent to a Catholic boarding school in north-west Tasmani ...Show more
The Short Long Book: A Portrait of Michael Long, the Man Who Changed the Australian Game by Martin Flanagan
Category: Sport
A portrait of Michael Long, the man who changed the Australian game. In 1995, Aboriginal footballer Michael Long gave the AFL its 'Mandela moment'. He quietly revolutionised Australian sport by refusing to let a racial insult pass during the Anzac Day match between Essendon and Collingwood. When the ove ...Show more
The Tom Wills Picture Show by Martin Flanagan
Category: Australiana
Tom Wills is the young man with at least two, and possibly four, different versions of Australian history running through his head: (blackfeller, whitefeller, convict, squatter and all the possible variations thereof). No-one in his time understood him. How could they? He didn't understand himself. All ...Show more
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