Echo Books

The Flower Bed
By Michael Springer

Who will live, who will die, and can anyone survive in The Flower Bed? Can a person ever escape their past? Is love the balm for the soul? Is each person a unique flower, or are we just imitating those who bloomed before us? Are we prisoners of our inner demons?

The Flower Bed takes you on a fictional journey of survival through the harsh realities of human life – its corruption, malignancy, and finite nature – while also venturing into the darkest, most despairing corners of the human mind. Take the journey into a world of prejudice, greed, crime, love, despair, drugs, and redemption.

The Flower Bed will challenge your intellect, stir your passions, engage your emotions, and leave you with lingering questions long after you've completed your journey through its pages.

Read all about it and find your copy at https://echobooks.com.au/our-books/the-flower-bed-15762/

Talkback host Edward ‘Big Ed’ Bradley thought he could say what he wanted, but being outspoken can also get you killed.

Read all about Big Ed in - A Fascinating Investigation, into the murder of Shock Jock 'Big Ed' Bradley. By Greg Cary – OUT NOW!

From the Gold Coast to Brisbane, Sydney and the beautiful seaside town of Lennox Head, the story unfolds from the perspectives of both the detectives and the murderer they are hunting.

Greg Cary draws on his decades of media experience to weave in important and interesting issues along the way – including defamation, the limits of free speech and the ethics of revenge.

Those who read Cary’s An Absence of Certainty will welcome the same insights, humour and easy style that marked his debut.

Find out more here - https://echobooks.com.au/our-books/a-fascinating-investigation-15829/

OUT NOW! - Good Can Always Come from Adversity
The Remarkable Life of Holocaust Survivor George Moshe Stein.
By Michael Stein

George Moshe Stein was a Jewish young man growing up with his family in the village of Oradea in Romania. In 1942 the scourge of Nazisim came to them and upturned their lives and aspirations forever. Initially forced into an unbearable ghetto, the family was forcibly 'relocated' in May 1944. Transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau the family was divided - never to be whole again. George, confused and desperate, did what he could to stay alive and maintain hope. Read more about "Good Can Always Come from Adversity" and find your copy at -https://echobooks.com.au/our-books/good-can-always-come-from-adversity-15526/

Glorious Mud
A Scientist in search of Adventure
By Gregg J. Brunskill

Paperback and eBook available NOW!

How did a boy from the South Dakota prairies end up as a tropical oceanographer?

When he was young, Gregg roamed the hills on horseback, hunting for fossils and rattlesnake dens, dreaming of adventure in faraway lands. Fuelled by a boundless thirst for knowledge (and exotic food), always open to the call of serendipity, Gregg abandoned a budding career in music to go in pursuit of .... MUD.

Why mud? Layers of sediment in lakes and oceans reveal the sequence of everything that has settled through the water, from pesticides to bomb fallout.

This history helps us to understand man-made impacts on the natural world. Unravelling these stories took Gregg to the ends of the earth: drilling through lake ice in the high Arctic, dangling precariously over the ship's rail in the Coral Sea, or wading up to his hips in Fly River mud. It was exciting, often dangerous work. He loved it.

Devoted family man, accomplished musician, respected scientist: Gregg found his adventures. This is his story.

Find your copy at https://echobooks.com.au/our-books/glorious-mud/

Inspector Cole's Cadavers By Neill Florence.

Inspector Coleman got to know the highways and byways of the Rockhampton Police District because he’d served there for the term of his life as a police inspector. On retirement, he moved to the Serendipity Retirement Village in Brisbane and after a year as an undercover detective in the village, and a romance that wins him a new wife, he is able to fulfil his retirement dream of putting his most interesting cases in a book.

Read more and find your Paperback or ePub at - https://echobooks.com.au/our-books/inspector-cole/

Paralysed - A tale of forbidden love and one woman's courage through adversity By Tracey Roberts.

Paralysed explores the notion of family and brings to life the love story of a man and woman faced with unthinkable heartbreak.

Epic in scope, with characters you won’t forget, Paralysed is an extraordinary story of murder, betrayal, love and the sometimes-questionable nature of friendship. It’s a family saga about relationships, interwoven lives, simmering secrets and hidden desires.
https://echobooks.com.au/our-books/paralysed/

The Reservists: A History of the Defence Reserves Association 1970-2020 - By Andrew J Kilsby

This is the story of the Defence Reserves Association. It conducted a decades long battle to steadfastly support and defend the Army, Air Force and Navy Reserves.
Its biggest enemy were the dozens of reviews, inquiries, and reports into the Reserves by politicians, Defence bureaucrats and uniformed policy makers, which led to endless ‘fiddling’ with Reserve structure and purpose.
At times the very existence of the Reserves appeared to be in question - it seemed like the Reserves were being ‘eaten by moths’.

For more information please visit - https://echobooks.com.au/our-books/the-reservists/

One Foot Forward - Reflections on healing - By Milena Cifali.
Following on from the success of her first memoir, Mallacoota Time The Lost Summer 2020, award -winning musician and author Milena Cifali’s book ‘One Foot forward - reflections on healing’.
Milena reflects on meaning in adversity, and ways of healing, inviting the reader to journey with her as she does so. Milena Cifali is a published poet ‘Love Politics Art Ideas’ 2019 and ‘Messages From The Embers’ Bushfire Anthology 2020. - https://echobooks.com.au/our-books/one-foot-forward/

Echo Books has assisted over 120 authors to navigate publishing. We understand that, like every author, every manuscript is unique, and that each book deserves tailored design and editorial care.

We guide you with personalised service and take pride in seeing our author's work on shelves for the world to enjoy.

Echo Books champions print-on-demand technology to avoid expensive and environmentally costly print runs. Unlike traditional publishing, our books never go out of print.

We work closely with you to design and publish high-quality print-on-demand paperback and hardcover books, as well as ePublications.

Our titles are sold through six of the largest resellers - Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Angus and Robertson, Booktopia and Fishpond.

The author pays our design and publishing cost, and royalties are fully passed back to the author.

Our design and publishing process is described here: https://echobooks.com.au/our-design-and-publishing-process/

If this model appeals to you then please email us at [email protected].

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Until the late 2010s, there was a widespread view that China’s rapid growth and even its political and economic model would make China the number-one power in the world by 2030. - https://echobooks.com.au/our-books/thunder-from-the-silent-zone/

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THE CONFIDENT STYLIST is EVERYTHING you’ll ever need for hair styling success all in the one spot, and it’s the book Sharon Blain’s fans worldwide have been waiting for! - https://echobooks.com.au/our-books/the-confident-stylist/

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Catching the Linville Train - A journey through history
by Everald Compton

Everald Compton is a 91-year-old Australian who has led a high-profile life as a relentless advocate of public issues relating to longevity, religion, infrastructure and community service, particularly in rural Australia.

Catching the Linville Train tells the story of his life experiences, all since his first train journey from his home village of Linville in the Brisbane River Valley way back in 1937. They include his perspective on world events, impressions of people he has met, nostalgic memories of pleasant experiences and reflections on his life’s achievements. It’s a fascinating story of a boy from the bush who had no money, nor a university degree, but was able to find a challenging place in the huge world far beyond Linville.

His contribution to society has been acknowledged by two awards: the Order of Australia (AM in 1993 and AO in 2021) and the Centenary Medal in 2001. The Uniting Church in Australia elected him in 1976 as an elder and lay preacher for life. Everald was the Founding Director of National Seniors Australia and is widely recognised as the Father of the Inland Railway. He worked as an international fundraising consultant for 40 years, undertaking assignments in 26 nations.

Everald married Helen 64 years ago and they have four children, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild who live and work around the globe, a long way from Linville. He is the author of four bestselling books: The Man on the Twenty Dollar Notes; Dinner with the Founding Fathers; A Beautiful Sunset; and The Power Gift.

Available here: https://echobooks.com.au/our-books/catching-the-linville-train/

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Forged by Sorrow - A journey from despair, to hope, to empowerment by Suzanne Spence

In this powerful memoir, Suzanne portrays how she navigates a childhood pervaded with violence, abuse and neglect and the strategies she develops to resist her abusers and protect her younger siblings.

Out of the turmoil and brutality of her childhood experiences, Suzanne’s strength and resilience is forged as she draws on comfort and courage from within, however the devastating consequences of her childhood would then be mirrored in her married life.

Suzanne’s increasing use of alcohol to numb the pain of the past would eventually become a deadly addiction which would almost destroy the life she had worked so hard to create for herself and her three children, however her recovery would be the key to true freedom.

The significant events which changed the trajectory of her life path and her fortitude and hope are woven throughout her story.

Today, Suzanne has a degree in psychology and sociology and a diploma in abuse counselling. From victim to survivor to advocate, Suzanne captures how she perfected the skills learned in her early life and the knowledge gained from her formal education to utilise in her career as a child protection caseworker for the past twenty-three years.

Available here: https://echobooks.com.au/our-books/forged-by-sorrow/

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Passages to the Northwest:
The Europe They Left And The Australia They Discovered, 1788-1858.

by Michael O'Rourke

This book traces the author’s settler-forebears and their migration to new lives in Australia.

They sailed variously to penal settlements or “free” farms or the petit-bourgeois townships that for long ‘clung timorously’ to the coast.

Some forebears sailed out from Ireland. There Catholic rebels and their French allies had been crushed by a Protestant Ascendancy. Worse, a potato famine was to kill hundreds of thousands. Other ancestors came out from Scotland, where lowland farmers were quietly creating an epitome of capitalist farming. And from England. The masses there would manage slowly to force their political masters to submit to popular election. And from Germany, where no master was ready to give way to the will of the people.

New Holland of course was entirely Aboriginal land in 1788. From 1815, however, drovers and shepherds began to take herds of cattle and sheep into a vast interior. The ‘First Australians’ gave them some trouble before submitting to an alien domination.

By 1860 most of the author’s ancestors had made their way to the inner northwest of New South Wales. They settled as publicans and sheep farmers on the rich and largely treeless grasslands known to its former Aboriginal owners as Gabawaan Gamilaraay or ‘greater Gamilaraay’— today’s Liverpool Plains. There by 1860 a few slab huts had been converted to drinking houses—the seeds of future village life. And already the campsites of the dray-men and their bullocks were starting to look like riverside towns.

Available through our resellers here:
https://echobooks.com.au/our-books/passages-to-the-northwest/

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A Wind of Bitter Tears by Roger Marsh

A Wind of Bitter Tears is the sequel to the very successful Echoes in the Wind.

Set against the backdrop of the chaos of Army life and combat operations in Afghanistan, A Wind of Bitter Tears is a story of the price of honour and the fearful effects of the abuse of power.

F-Bomb’s next comment was lost in a sudden burst of gunfire.

‘What the f**k?’

‘That’s coming from within the camp,’ said Rob, and in one fluid movement slapped a magazine into the SR-25 and then cocked the weapon, before placing the other magazines into his pockets. There was no hesitation on either of their parts: simply a determination to move toward the threat and neutralise it. More shots rang out. Rob felt all mental clutter drop away, as the call of battle beckoned. He knew in his heart that there was a deadly situation nearby, leaving no time to put on body armour. In the fearful calculation of risk and urgency, speed was more important than self-protection.

Available in Paperback (ISBN: 9781922603968) via resellers on this page: https://echobooks.com.au/our-books/roger-marsh/

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The Three Graces: Companionship, Discretion, Passion.

by Paul Monk with orignial artwork from Ingrida Rocis.

This book is several books in one. It consists of poems written for three different muses over a period of years. Each muse was radically different to the others. The result is a fascinating set of contrasts and illuminating comparisons. That is the meaning of the book's sub-title: companionship, discretion, passion. It is beautifully illustrated by Ingrida Rocis and includes a Preface explaining how the author became a poet and how this book came to be.

Available from our resellers here: https://echobooks.com.au/our-books/the-three-graces/

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The Golden Age of Australian Women's Squash:
The extraordinary story of how Australia became the most successful nation in world women's squash from 1962-2010

by Barbara Slotemaker de Bruïne

Australian women squash players dominated the world squash scene from 1962 - 2010. How did this reign begin and continue? What are the reasons for its decline? Why isn't it in the Olympics?

The author was fortunate to begin her career at the same time as the legendary Heather McKay, and has interviewed key players from many decades to answer these questions. Heather's story and many others are a must-read for the younger generation who aspire to succeed on the world stage. It will also be of interest to former players, at all levels, and those in the community who are interested in Australian sporting history.

Available from our resellers here: https://echobooks.com.au/our-books/the-golden-age-of-australian-womens-squash/

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Joan Butterfly and Friends: Joan Creates a Community

Written and illustrated by Christine Glare.

This is the first book in a series of stories about the exciting adventures of Joan Butterfly and her friends.

Here is Joan Butterfly, a most marvellous friend.
Today she is busy, from beginning to end.
Reliable and creative is our sweet Joan.
She happily completes her jobs on her own.

Why is Joan covered in rose pollen, and so glad?
She has a very good reason, it's ironclad!
Read on inside and you'll be amazed to learn,
How Joan cleverly does each friend a good turn.

Available from our resellers here: https://echobooks.com.au/our-books/joan-butterfly-and-friends

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Anzac Day with the Swans of Northam

by Elspeth Langford with paintings by Catherine Gordon

It's Anzac Day morning. The swans and school kids meet on a country riverbank. The swans have a story to tell about their brave ancestors and the children also have a story to tell about their soldier ancestor. As the day unfolds, the swans and young humans realise that both their stories of survival in wartime come together in a way they’ll never forget.