Kristen Alexander
Kristen Alexander was born and grew up in Orange, NSW. After living and working Sydney for ten years she moved to Canberra in 1993. She loves Canberra and has no intention of moving elsewhere. She is a former public servant and for the last nine years she and her husband David have been running a secondhand book business specialising in Australian military history. This specialty came about initially because of Kristen's enthusiasm for reading (home front accounts, women's experiences, prisoner of war experiences and bomber command accounts) and later when they purchased a mail order military book business. Kristen is an active member of the Military Historical Society of Australia. She held the position of Federal Secretary since October 2003. She is also a some-time reviewer of social military history for the Society's journal, Sabretache .
Kristen is currently working on a biography of Jack Napier Davenport of 455 Squadron RAAF and an account of Australian fighter pilots in World War II. In the rare moments when she is not wandering around a library or has her nose in a reference book, Kristen can be found bopping around the pool at her favourite aqua class, indulging in afternoon tea at the Hyatt (or preparing a tasty morsal for afternoon tea at the Alexander Fax household), or lost in a light crime novel. |
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Toby and Juliana Hooper
Toby and Juliana Hooper were antique dealers
in High Street, Armadale and Prahran in Melbourne for some thirty years and
are the authors of 6 books on Antiques and Australiana.
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Paul A. Rosenzweig
Born in Adelaide in 1959, Paul Rosenzweig is a graduate of the university
of Adelaide and the South Australian College of Advanced education, and
has been a secondary teacher in Darwin and Mackay. He enlisted in the
Army Reserve in 1979, was commissioned in 1985, and has served in the
Adelaide
University regiment, the 42nd Battalion, Royal Queensland regiment and
on full-time service as the Adjutant/Operations Officer of the 7th Training
Group in Darwin. He has served in NORFORCE in six postings, in three squadrons,
at four different ranks. He has served as aide-de-camp to two Honorary
Colonels from 1991 to 1997.
In his civilian life he was Aide to the Administrator of the Northern
Territory and then Executive Officer of Wildlife Management International
Pty Ltd. At the end of 1999 he was selected to raise and command Deployed
Force Support Unit-Darwin. A position he continues to serve in today.
Paul just sent me this email: I've just been awarded the Centenary Medal!
For my contributions to military history. Not sure where this came from but I suspect it was
through military channels for all the voluntary work I have done documenting the history of
NORFORCE and preserving unit historical records, an ongoing project since I first arrived in
Darwin in 1984 and culminating in the regimental history.
I feel privileged to receive recognition for something I've done
voluntarily and for the pure pleasure of it. It was military history articles some
20-odd years ago that first got me hooked on collecting and research and
ultimately writing, and then the relatively untapped resources of the NT
that gave me an opportunity. Hopefully my work might do the same for another generation of collectors/historians.
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Gerard Windsor
Gerard Windsor was born in Sydney in 1944.
He spent seven years as a Jesuit, but left before ordination.
He later obtained degrees from the Australian National University and
Sydney University.
He has published two collections of short stories, a novella and a collection
of autobiographical stories. His short stories, articles and reviews have
appeared in numerous anthologies, literary magazines and newspapers.
He lives in Sydney with his wife and son.
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Anthony Marshall
Anthony Marshall is a Melbourne bookseller( owner of Alice's Bookshop)
with over 20 years experience of bookdealing in England and Australia.
Mixing anecdote and practical advice, humor and provocative comment, Anthony
Marshall takes you right inside his book store and into his life.
He lives in Melbourne with his wife Susan.
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Warren Kennaugh
Warren has been involved in the development of business and sports people
for the last 10 years. His interest is golf has lead him to developing
cutting edge techniques that have had a dramatic effect on golfers handicaps.
Having taught hundreds of individuals he is able to disburse with traditional
myths and explain how to reduce your handicap in simple and concise terms.
"Everyone is able to start hitting better shots and reduce their handicap,
when they use these simple techniques".
Warren lives in Australia and teaches in both Australia and the USA.
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Bernadette Hince
Bernadette has a background in science and language. She was science editor of the Australian national dictionary (Oxford University Press, 1988) and consultant science editor for the Dictionary of New Zealand English (Oxford University Press, in press). She is co-author of the CSIRO handbook of economic plants of Australia (CSIRO, Melbourne, 1993).
She was the Museum of Victoria's 1995 Thomas Ramsay Science and Humanities Fellow. She is fascinated by words and their history, by natural history and by Antarctica. The dictionary is the result of these obsessions. |
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Raymond Leister
Raymond has self published
"Cradle To Despair", a work of social fiction. He also has a sequel book "Torment to the End" and a Chinese version of "Cradle To Despair".
Raymond currently lives in Canberra. |
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Robert Balas
Robert was born in Camberwell, Victoria. As a student of
Sociology at Monash University, he completed a B.A. (Honours), and in
1976, tutored in Humanities at the Royal Melbourne lnstitute of
Technology. In 1981, he decided to make Sydney his 'Twice Upon The
Moon', embarking on a writing and acting career.
Besides being known as a performance poet and actor, he has worked
extensively as a lyricist on songs. As a playwright, he has written three plays, all workshopped by 'Parnassus Den' in 1997. He is looking forward
to having them performed.
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A John Parker
In 2005 Perth automotive historian and author A John Parker released "Torquing of Marques" an A to Z listing of the 550
brand names of cars seen on Perth roads since 1896 with an 'auto'biographical comment on each marque.
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Batman
Bat has regularly had work published in Live to Ride and Men at Work Magazines, and has been involved with the design of T-shirts, flyers and posters.
Bat currently lives in Sydney. |
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Antonio Casella
Antonio Casella is an Australian novelist, born in Italy.
Until he migrated to Australia, at age 15, he spoke no English.
Initially he attended high school but, unable to follow the lessons, he left and served an apprenticeship.
He wrote his first novel, Southfalia, in 1980. The manuscript was accepted by the very first publisher it was sent to, with the comment: "I haven't enjoyed a socio-political work so much since Catch 22 and Gulliver's Travels."
Since Southfalia he has written 3 other novels: The Sensualist, Men and Fathers, and An Olive Branch for Sante.
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