Peter Fitzsimons

Little Theories of Life
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781742375373
RRP: $16.99

In a cornucopia of theories, conundrums and fascinating morsels, the irrepressible Peter FitzSimons seeks to resolve the BIG issues: Why do men fall asleep after sex? Why is it that nuns always drive brown Toranas? What do hemlines have to do with the state of the economy?...

Nancy Wake: A Biography of our Greatest War Heroine 1912 - 2011 (Revised Edition)
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732295257
RRP: $24.95

In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a na ve, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in a Viennese street. From that moment, she declared that she would do everything in her power to rid Europe of the Nazis. What began as a courier j...

Mawson
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781741666601
RRP: $49.95

Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. After setting up Main Base at Cape Denision and Western Base on Queen Mary Land, he headed east on an extraordinary sledging trek with his...

A Simpler Time
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732293086
RRP: $24.99

A memoir of love, laughter, loss and billycarts Peter FitzSimons's account of growing up on the rural outskirts of Sydney in the 1960s is first and foremost a tribute to family. But it is also a salute to times and generations past, when praise was understated but love unstinting; work was hard and values clear; when people stood by each other in adversity. Above all, in the FitzSimons hom...

Batavia
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781864710403
RRP: $49.95

In the seventeenth century, the world's prime trade super-power was Holland. They fiercely and ruthlessly protected and controlled the passage from the East Indies to Europe, trafficking priceless spices back at enormous profit. And their flagship, Batavia, named after the Dutch stronghold port in Fiji, was the pride of the Dutch East India Company. But in the early hours of early June 1629, d...

Kokoda
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780733619625
RRP: $35.00

For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know just what happened - and just what our troops achieved. Now, bestselling author Peter FitzSimons tells the Kokoda story in a gripping, moving account for all Australians. Conditions on the track were hellish - rain was constant, the terrain close to inhospitable, food and ammunition supplies were practically nonexi...

Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732288198
RRP: $35.00

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith is one of Australia's most beloved heroes. In an action-packed life, the indomitable 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier among the carnage of Gallipoli and the Western Front, to taking to the skies against the likes of the Red Baron - for which he won the Military Cross for gallantry - before becoming the greatest peacetime aviator of his generation. ...

Ballad of Les Darcy
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732289515
RRP: $19.99

'Put Les Darcy in a uniform and the men of Australia will march to hell behind him.' That was the message Australia's great 'Blacksmith Boxer' was getting as debate about conscription raged in the middle of World War 1. The problem was that Les Darcy didn't want to march at the fore of such a procession nor to such a destination. He wanted to continue what he had been ...

Tobruk
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732286316
RRP: $35.00

In the early days of April 1941, the 14,000 Australian forces garrisoned in the Libyan town of Tobruk were told to expect reinforcement and supplies within eight weeks... Eight months later, these heroic, gallant, determined 'Rats of Tobruk' were rescued by the British Navy having held the fort against the might of Rommel's never before defeated Afrika Corps. Like Gallipoli and Kokod...

How Hemlines Predict the Economy
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781602393110
RRP: $15.95

A lighthearted assessment of popular theories, urban myths, and more is an anecdotal collection of the Sydney Morning Herald columnist's observations on everything from relationship phenomena to street-traffic coincidences....

And Now For Some Light Relief... The Genuinely Funny Joke Book
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741669015

Two drunks were walking home along the railway tracks. The first drunk says, 'There's a hell of a lot of steps here.' The second drunk says, 'I'll tell you what's worse, this hand rail is low down.' Peter FitzSimons has collected the biggest, bestest, funniest, downright groan-inducing,rib-ticklers, one-liners, knock-knocks, shaggy dog stories and limericks and collate...

Beazley
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732265212

A Biography In this groundbreaking biographical study, Peter FitzSimons exposes the character behind this enigmatic politician - his ambitions, his back-room manoeuvring, and previously uncharted realms of his political and private life. Learning the rules of the game at the kitchen table, politics for Beazley was family business. Handing out "how to vote" cards for his father at pollin...

Beazley: A Biography
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732271725

As the Federal election looms and both Liberal and Labor parties gear up for their pre-election campaigns, Peter FitzSimons assesses Beazley's recent years as Leader of the Opposition. Is Beazley the man who will unseat John Howard and sweep the Liberal Party from power? Has Kim Beazley proved himself to be a credible alternative to Howard, the ultimate political survivor? Indeed, after the u...

Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732284879

Known to millions of Australians simply as 'Smithy' Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was one of Australia's true twentieth-century legends. In an era in which aviators were superstars Smithy was among the greatest and throughout his amazing career his fame in Australia was matched only by that of Don Bradman. Among other achievements Kingsford Smith was the first person to fly across ...

Everyone And Phar Lap
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732267308

Face To Face With The Best Of Australian Sport Here is a humorous, insightful and engaging collection of what sports writer Peter FitzSimons calls sportraits, profiles of our sporting greats. As Australia primes itself for the first Olympic Games of the new millennium, FitzSimons turns his razor-sharp sights on a veritable who's who of sporting heroes from the last 150 years - and others who...

FitzSimons On Rugby
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781865081328

Peter FitzSimons has been playing, thinking and living rugby for just about the whole of his life. But m ore importantly, he has been writing about that compellingly infuriating game we love with wit, perception and unbridled enthusiasm. In this collection of his best rugby writing, Peter takes us from Peats Ridge, where the game began for him, to the great rugby fields of the world, Murrayfie...

John Eales: The Biography
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780733310126

This is the authorised biography of Australia's current rugby captain, John Eales. For those who don't know him, John Eales is a giant of a man who stands almost 6 foot 8 inches tall. In rugby union he plays with the big men in the tight forwards - in the lineouts, scrums, rucks and malls. This is a brutal world of strength, power and toughness. So why is Eales Australia's most lov...

John Eales: The Biography
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780733311550

This is the authorised biography of Australia's current rugby captain, John Eales. For those who don't know him, John Eales is a giant of a man who stands almost 6 foot 8 inches tall. In rugby union he plays with the big men in the tight forwards - in the lineouts, scrums, rucks and malls. This is a brutal world of strength, power and toughness. So why is Eales Australia's most lov...

John Eales: The biography
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780733315688

The bestselling biography of Australia's finest rugby player, and one of our most popular sporting heroes, in a small format paperback. This bestselling biography of John Eales traces his life from a classic Australian childhood in the suburbs of Brisbane to the glory of captaining the World Cup-winning Wallabies, and shows that his road to sporting greatness has many twists and turns. Writ...

Kokoda
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780733616150

Peter FitzSimons weaves together the extraordinary story of Kokoda. For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know the names of the men who fought on the track, or even the details of what happened. More Australians died in the months of fighting in Papua, than in any other campaign of World War II. Now bestselling author Peter FitzSimons tells the Kokoda stor...

Kokoda, Illustrated Ed
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780733623141

Now - this gripping and bestselling account of the Kokoda campaign is available in a superbly packaged, hardback gift edition - illustrated with almost 150 photographs. Kokoda was a defining battle for Australia - a small force of young, ill-equipped Australians engaged a highly experienced and hitherto unstoppable Japanese force on a narrow, precarious jungle track - and defeated them. A bestsell...

Little Theories of Life
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741753530

A cornucopia of theories, conundrums and fascinating morsels from the irrepressible Peter FitzSimons. Why does the dominant partner in any sexual relationship usually sleep on the side of the bed nearest the door? Is there a direct relationship between the length of hemlines and the state of the national economy? And why do drivers with hats drive 40 km per hour slower than those without? These ...

Nancy Wake: A Biography
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732269197

A Biography of Australia's Greatest War Heroine. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young Australian enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a naive, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in a Viennese street. From that moment, she declared that she would do everything in her...

Nancy Wake: A Biography
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732274566

A Biography of Australia's Greatest War Heroine. The number one bestselling biography of Australia's greatest war heroine. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a na ve, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in a Viennese s...

Nene: Nene King, Queen Of The Australian Magazine World
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732275655

A story of triumph and tragedy. Love her or hate her, the former Queen of Australian magazines, Nene King, has lived one hell of a life . . . and it's not over yet. Nene King was queen of Australian women's magazines for over a decade as she presided over the mass market jewels of the Packer stable: 'Women's Day' and 'Australian Women's Weekly'. Hugely powerful ...

Nene: Nene King, Queen Of The Australian Magazine World
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732275679

A story of triumph and tragedy. Loud, lusty and controversial, Nene King was the Queen of the Australian magazine world. Love her or hate her, Nene King, has lived one hell of a life . . . and it's not over yet. Nene King was queen of Australian women's magazines for over a decade as she presided over the mass market jewels of the Packer stable: 'Women's Day' and 'Austra...

OE - A Simpler Time
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732288044

A memoir of love, laughter, loss and billycarts It still amazes me what they allowed us to do without their supervision or help while remaining deeply loving parents. Climb trees from the age of four or five? No problem. Drive the tractor from the age of eight or nine onwards? Good luck to you. Haul on the hoist to pull the half-ton bins filled with oranges off the trailer? Yes. Take your bike ou...

Peter FitzSimons' Great Australian Sports Champions
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732285173

When Peter FitzSimons joined the Sydney Morning Herald in the late 1980s, his ambition was to seek out all of the major Australian sportsmen and women he had heard about or admired over the years - and write about them, warts and all, joys and all, regrets and all. Over the next decade he did just this, and now Great Australian Sports Champions brings together his updated collection of the memori...

The Rugby War
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732278823

New Edition. The principal soldiers were all men to rugby born - players, coaches, officials and business executives. Yet 'The Rugby War' goes far beyond football. This updated edition coincides with the 2003 Rugby World Cup. Bestselling author and 'Sydney Morning Herald' journalist Peter FitzSimons takes us to the very heart of the battle which evolved from the continuing fricti...

Tobruk
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732276454

In the early days of April 1941, the 14,000 Australian forces garrisoned in the Libyan town of Tobruk were told to expect reinforcementand supplies within 8 weeks..... Eight months later these heroic, gallant, determined 'Rats of Tobruk' were rescued by the British Navy having held the fort against the might of Rommel's never before defeated Afrika Corps. Like Gallipoli and Kokoda, the...

Tobruk Illustrated
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732289546

'What we have, we hold' MOTTO OF AUSTRALIA'S 2/17TH BATTALION In the tradition of his bestselling KOKODA, Peter FitzSimons, Australia's most beloved popular historian, returns in this deluxe illustrated edition to one of the seminal moments in Australian history: the Battle of Tobruk in 1941, in which more than 15 000 Australian troops - backed by British artillery - fought in ex...

Waugh
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732276478

There have been many heroes in Australia's sporting history, but very few icons. Sir Donald Bradman. Phar Lap. Dawn Fraser. John Landy. Shane Gould. Cathy Freeman. Allan Border. Ian Thorpe . . . And Steve Waugh. For many Australians, Steve Waugh is the greatest cricketer of the modern era, an accomplished all-rounder who became a victorious captain, responsible for shepherding the strongest...