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  • The Traveller, Lost

    by Glenn Martin ...
    I went on a trip overseas, from Australia to Britain and Ireland. I was interested in exploring places I had not been before, and in exploring family history: seeing some of the places where my ancestors had lived, going back around 180 years. I went to London, Oxford, Bath, Stonehenge, Nottingham, Durham, Waterford, Edinburgh, St Andrews, and several small towns in Fife. I kept a diary on the ... Read more

    $8.19 CAD

  • The Importance of Not Having a Career Plan

    by Glenn Martin ...
    This is not an ordinary look at career plans. There may be merits in career plans, but could there be drawbacks too? And what could a successful life look like if there is no career plan? The author takes us through his own life, where he got to the age of sixty-five years and thought, “I managed to do that without having a career plan”. Then he takes us through his life again, observing the inner ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Ordinary People, Remarkable Lives

    by Glenn Martin ...
    This book is a collection of eight stories from people in Glenn Martin’s family tree. it begins with two of his great great grandparents, who were convicts who met in Hobart. He followed the meagre clues in the records to determine how it was that they met. Another great great grandparent was a convict who later established a hotel in Sydney and became the publican. Some of the clues for this ... Read more

    $6.79 CAD

  • A Singular Book of Great Esteem

    Life with the I Ching

    by Glenn Martin ...
    The “singular book of great esteem” is the I Ching. It originated in China some 5,000 years ago as a form of divination, and around 3,000 years ago it was formulated into a system of sixty-four images with corresponding text, built up from the foundational yin-yang (binary) concept. It has been used since then by emperors, officials and ordinary people for wisdom and guidance. I am not qualified ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Long Time Approaching

    An Incomplete Memoir

    by Glenn Martin ...
    Glenn shares threads of his life in this searching memoir. It includes glimpses into his doomed relationships, his experiences as a teacher – despite this not being his chosen career, and his experiences in other roles. He has been a manager, a magazine editor, head of a national organisation, and a writer of commentary for management professionals. He has been a hippie living in the hills. He has ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Library Meets Book Fair

    by Glenn Martin ...
    The author has a personal library of around four thousand books, substantial in a domestic setting, although miniscule in comparison to public libraries. The author’s library has grown over fifty years. Living in Sydney now, he goes to book fairs. And he buys books that interest him. The question is, does he come across books that he already owns? In 2023, at one book fair, he found three books, ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD

  • Travel with a Pen

    by Glenn Martin ...
    "Travel with a pen", these days, is a metaphor for travelling with a laptop. I went to Tasmania for two weeks, intending just to keep a diary of my experiences. I was going there to graduate from my Diploma of Family History course, and I was going to Oatlands, in the midlands, to explore more of my great great grandmother’s story as a young Irish convict in the 1850s. And I was hoping to see ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • The Sailor, The Baron And the Dressmaker

    by Glenn Martin ...
    A young German sailor, Siegfried Hottelmann, comes to Australia in 1928, spending two years in Australia and New Zealand working on farms and becoming an elephant handler in Wirth’s Circus. He returns to Germany, but leaves again in 1936 for America. He returns to Australia in August 1938 as a seaman, but deserts ship in Adelaide. Travelling up to Sydney, he meets a lady, Glenn Martin’s father’s ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Night Dragons and the Moon

    by Glenn Martin ...
    Illustrated by Stephanie Leonard ...
    "The Night Dragons and the Moon" follows Jal, an unusual blue dragon born to a family of fire-breathers. But there's a problem-Jal can't produce smoke, let alone fire! His parents, worried about his future, consult, Dr. Emdee, who reveals a shocking truth: Jal will never breathe fire.As Jal grows, he struggles with feeling different, especially during dragon games where fire is everything. However ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • No Gold in Melbourne

    A Scottish Family in Australia

    by Glenn Martin ...
    A prominent stream of Glenn’s ancestors is Scottish, particularly the Mackie family. Scottish people began emigrating as far back as the early 1600s. Many of them went to America, but in 1852 Alexander and Rachel Mackie emigrated to Melbourne, taking with them their five children. Alexander was a skilled tradesman, both a weaver and a stonemason, and Melbourne was about to stir as the hub of the ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • A Modest Quest

    by Glenn Martin ...
    “A Modest Quest” describes the author’s quest to find out about his family’s past. It was intended just to find out the basic facts about his parents’ brothers and sisters, and his grandparents. Growing up, he had thought that all his grandparents had died before he was born. This turned out not to be the case, but it took some serious research and more than two years to bring the facts to light, ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Love and Armour

    by Glenn Martin ...
    There are many episodes that make up a life - traumas, victories and kindnesses. And the words about those episodes provide an accompaniment, they throw light and small harnesses around the wildness. Love and armour is the interplay between experiences and the words that tried to accord those experiences respect. It contains poems and the stories that tell what was happening when the poems were ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD