Remembering Josh: Bali, A Father's Story (Brian Deegan)

Remembering Josh: Bali, A Father's Story

Brian Deegan

Blurb: 'I've not slept for 70 hours or more, walking, watching, waiting, praying for the end of this nightmare from which, at some stage, I must awake. But the reality is beginning to set in and I know only too well that at least in this life I shall never speak openly with my son. Never again shall I laugh with him, drink with him, discuss his future or watch him take to the field.'

So begins a father's descent into hell.

On 12 October 2002, Brian Deegan's son Joshua was killed in the terrorist explosion that ripped apart the Sari Club in Bali's Kuta Beach. Through grief and anger, this father has gone on a journey no parent should have to take. He has confronted the ghosts of his son's death, challenged the government's version of the truth and fought for the answers nobody wanted to give.

Raw and powerful, Remembering Josh cuts to the heart of love and honesty. Nobody reading this book will be left unaffected by it.

ISBN: 1741142776 (Paperback)

Year: 2004

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Pages: 240 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Buy from the ABC

3. Wikipedia page for the author

4. Wikipedia page on the Bali bombings

5. Australian government article on the event

Searching for Schindler (Tom Keneally)

Searching for Schindler

Tom Keneally

Blurb: A memoir of Tom's journey around the world to discover the complete story of Oskar Schindler and those on his now-famous list.

In 1980, Tom Keneally walked into a store in Beverly Hills owned by Polish Jew Leopold Pfefferberg Page to buy a new briefcase. For the next few years, Tom's life was taken over by this charismatic and driven man, known as Poldek, and the story of his saviour, the ambiguous hero Oskar Schindler.

Inspired by Poldek's vision, Tom's 1982 novel, Schindler's Ark, won the Booker Prize and ultimately became the Oscar-award-winning film Schindler's List.

Tom and Poldek travelled across the US, Germany, Israel, Austria and Poland, interviewing survivors and discovering their extraordinary stories. Searching for Schindler is very much Tom's journey; he reflects on his early days as a successful but less than confident writer, and how this book, the film it became and the people he met, changed his and his family's lives forever.

Filled with stories of Poldek, Steven Spielberg, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and many other fascinating characters, Searching for Schindler gives us a unique insight into the wonderful, warm, thinking, compassionate and very funny man that is Tom Keneally.

ISBN: 9781741666151 (Paperback)

Year: 2007

Publisher: Vintage Books

Pages: 304 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Review from The Independent

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Google books page

4. Author's Wikipedia page

5. Review from The Times

Mum Had a Kingswood: Tales from the life and mind of Rosso (Tim Ross)

Mum Had a Kingswood: Tales from the life and mind of Rosso

Tim Ross

Blurb: 'This book reminds me of a lot of Rosso: funny, smart and delightful to hang out with even when you're sober.' - Judith Lucy

'It's a warped and witty, tunnel-vision glimpse of the world. (Certifiably warped.) Do funny things just happen to funny people? Or is it just because of the heavy drugs, testosterone and bat-induced rabies? Either way, Rosso makes me laugh a lot. We need madmen to keep us semi-sane. Onya, Tim.' - Ray Martin

It's a book. A funny book. A funny book by Tim 'Rosso' Ross.

But what's in this funny book I hear you ask?

Well, it's all manner of stories from the life and mind of Tim Ross. There are warm, fuzzy childhood stories of billycarts and milk bars. There are teenage stories of angst, girls, bad clothes and bad hair. There are student tales of share-house madness and misery. And there are adult tales of living out a rock 'n' roll dream, doing stand-up, being on the telly and entertaining the nation on the radio every day.

In between all these wonderful tales, there are rants and raves, ideas and fantastical stories. Just stuff really. Wonderful stuff from the mind of Tim 'Rosso' Ross. This is his book. It's part memoir, part brain dump. And he's written it just for you.

ISBN: 9781742375076 (Paperback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Pages: 322 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Official page of the book

2. Allen & Unwin page for the book

3. Blog on the book

4. Buy the ebook from Readings

5. Another blog on the book