Peter Fitzsimons: 28 books
The Great Aussie Bloke Slim-Down
How an Over-50 Former Footballer Went From Fat to Fit . . . and Lost 45 Kilos
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
The story of one man who had the guts to lose his gut. This is a book that will finally help an ordinary bloke lose weight. (Don't worry, it has nothing to do with wearing a red bandana.)
Ever struggled with your weight? Or did you stop struggling years ago and let the pies win? Peter FitzSimons...
by Peter Fitzsimons
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Batavia is the greatest story in Australia�s history. The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mutiny, ship-wreck, love, lust, blood-lust,...
by Peter FitzSimons
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail. Peter tells this iconic tale in GALLIPOLI. History comes to life...
Mutiny on the Bounty
A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before.
Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit...
by Peter FitzSimons
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The number 1 non-fiction bestseller.More than 100,000 copies sold! 'What we have, we hold'MOttO OF AUStRALIA'S 2/17tH BAttALIONIn the tradition of his bestselling Kokoda, Peter FitzSimons, Australia's most beloved popular historian, focuses on one of the seminal moments in Australian history: the...
by Peter FitzSimons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
An affectionate and hilarious tribute to the childhood of another era, from one of Australia's favourite authors 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...
by Peter FitzSimons
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in bulletproof iron armour made from farmers' ploughs.
Historians still disagree over virtually...
by Peter FitzSimons
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. 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 naïve, young...
Gotta Love This Country!
Great stories from around Australia to lift your heart, make you laugh and puff out your chest
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
You gotta love this country when an AFL legend takes his mum instead of his girlfriend to the Brownlow, when an Australian cricket captain joins a bunch of fourteen year olds for a bit of street cricket, when a bloke wins the Australian Marbles Championship after being reunited with the tom-bowlers...
by Peter FitzSimons
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Eureka Stockade - the unfinished revolution . . . In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. Henry Lawson wrote poems about it, its...
Burke and Wills
The triumph and tragedy of Australia's most famous explorers
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller.
'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end...
How Hemlines Predict the Economy
Explanations, Rationalizations, and Theories on Everything
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
A funny collection of quirky observations and modern folk wisdom—that may or may not be true.
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...
Seriously...You Have to Laugh
Great yarns and tall tales from the sporting fields, dressing rooms and commentary boxes of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Putting his unique spin on our sporting life, Peter FitzSimons celebrates the tall tales and true, the outrageous yarns and the knockabout humour from the footy fields, cricket grounds, dressing rooms, bars and commentary boxes of Australia.
From the clever sledges behind the bales and the...
by Peter FitzSimons
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Australia's best-selling author's favourite wisecracks, tall tales and rib-ticklers.
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...
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