My Dream Time: A memoir of tennis and teamwork (left) by Ash Barty (right), HarperCollins. Photos by HarperCollins and Nic Morley.
Book review: Australian Book Industry Awards winner about an Aussie girl from Ipswich
I started My Dream Time: A memoir of tennis and teamwork by Ash Barty AO during the middle of an Aussie summer when the Australian Open was being played.
It certainly was a fitting time to read this story by the 2022 Australian Open champ, which charts her tennis story from age 5 when she picked up a racquet in Queensland.
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South (left) by Winfred Rembert (right) as told to Erin I. Kelly, Bloomsbury Publishing. Photos by Bloomsbury Publishing and Renan Ozturk
Book review: Pulitzer winner about chain gangs, lynching, black history and the Civil Rights era
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by the late Winfred Rembert is a life story about a nobody becoming a somebody.
In short, it recounts how Rembert grew up in Georgian cotton fields, survived years on chain gangs and became a world-renowned leather artist.
My Cousin Is a Chief in Samoa: The unlikely adventures of a Dane in Polynesia (centre) by Johannes Langkilde (right) and with his cousin (left) who dressed up as a Samoan princess during a family gathering and cultural performance in Langkilde’s family honour.
Case study: News anchor’s chance meeting unites him with enriching American Samoan relatives
My Cousin Is a Chief in Samoa: The unlikely adventures of a Dane in Polynesia by Johannes Langkilde, with Cathrine Errboe, is a family story born from a chance meeting.
The life-story book tells how well-known journalist Langkilde grew up in cold, windswept Denmark hearing stories of faraway relatives on the tropical islands of Samoa – one of them a real live chief!
However in 2016 he suddenly found himself face to face with Fagafaga Daniel Langkilde of American Samoa while covering a political convention in the United States of America.
So keep reading to find out how a spark ignited between the two distant cousins, how the Wendila publication began plus tips for your own creating …
