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  • Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs...She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse

    by Paul Carter ...
    'Great two-fisted writing from the far side of hell.' - John Birmingham, bestselling author of He Died with a Felafel in his Hand'A unique look at a gritty game. Relentlessly funny and obsessively readable.' - Phillip Noyce, director of The Quiet American and Clear and Present DangerPaul Carter has been shot at, hijacked and held hostage.He's almost died of dysentery in Asia and toothache in ... Read more

    $10.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This is Not a Drill

    Just another glorious day in the oilfield

    by Paul Carter ...
    Carter writes as if he has ADD, careering through his life on oil rigs in exotic locations. He won't win the Booker, but his yarns burn with anarchic energy ... in a word, irrepressible.' - Herald SunHe's back on the rigs and back in trouble.Picking up right where he left off, Paul Carter pulls out more tall tales of a mad, bad and dangerous life in the international oil trade. Starting with ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ride Like Hell and You'll Get There

    Detours into mayhem

    by Paul Carter ...
    More of Paul Carter's hugely entertaining stories of his seriously crazy, sometimes terrifying, always hilarious adventures.Attempting 300 kph on an untested experimental motorcycle could be considered a perfect way to kill yourself, but Paul Carter is still, well, Paul Carter and danger at high speed is his second name.Whether discovering that being dyslexic means delivering your lines to camera ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Is That Thing Diesel?

    One man, one bike and the first lap around Australia on used cooking oil

    by Paul Carter ...
    The next eagerly awaited, high octane, seat-of-your-pants adventure from the author of the bestselling Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs (she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse) sees (the surely a bit bonkers) Paul Carter circumnavigating Australia on a bio-diesel motorcycle.At forty years old, a successful writer, husband and father, no longer toiling on offshore drilling rigs, was Paul ... Read more

    $10.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Tales of a Country Doctor

    by Paul Carter ...
    One cold winter night, on my way to have dinner with friends, I got stuck in traffic. There had been an accident at the lights ahead. As I sat there in the dark and the wet, waiting for the mess to be cleared, I glanced across the road. There on a noticeboard outside a rundown weatherboard church was a message Unless you change direction you will end up where you are going. Its a sign, I said, Ha ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Naming No Man’s Land

    Postcolonial Toponymies

    by Paul Carter ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is a practice-based exploration of the politics and poetics of replacing colonial placenames with Indigenous ones. From a horizon of case-studies in Western Australia, the study develops a lively dialogue with international critical toponymy theory and with older etymological approaches to place renaming and legitimation. The author shows how renaming raises fundamental questions of ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Mile 1: Beyond the First Step and into the Heart of Following Jesus

    by Paul Carter ...
    "Every journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Ever heard that before? What comes after that first step? That question is often unanswered in the Evangelical church. We call people to conversion with dramatic words like "transformation", "rebirth", and "redemption", but when the force of those words wears off and the last organ strains of "Just As I Am" have faded into the balcony, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Further Tales of a Country Doctor

    by Paul Carter ...
    There are no secrets in a small country town but if you open your mind as well as your heart, who knows whats around the corner. Twenty five years ago Paul Carter moved from inner city Melbourne to regional Victoria on a tree-changing whim. But in a country town you are not just simply the family doctor, you are also a confidante, advocate, priest, batsman, bowler, banker, topic of gossip and even ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Narrow Way

    by Paul Carter ...
    There is no person so lost as the person falsely assured that he is saved. The devil knows his Bible and recalls that Jesus said: On that day many will say to me, "Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?" And then will I declare to them, "I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness." (Matthew 7:22-23, ... Read more

    $10.19 CAD

  • Meeting Place

    The Human Encounter and the Challenge of Coexistence

    by Paul Carter ...
    In this remarkable and often dazzling book, Paul Carter explores the conditions for sociability in a globalized future. He argues that we make many assumptions about communication but overlook barriers to understanding between strangers as well as the importance of improvisation in overcoming these obstacles to meeting. While disciplines such as sociology, legal studies, psychology, political ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Petty Tyranny and Oppression

    Workhouse Lives Under the Long Nineteenth-Century Poor Laws

    by Paul Carter, Steven King ...
    This book focuses on one of the most contentious areas of English and Welsh poor law history: the exercise of petty tyranny by officials on the workhouse poor. The book examines the period from the late-eighteenth-century crisis of the Old Poor Law, through the adoption of the New Poor Law reform in 1834, the loosening of the 'principles of 1834' in the 1890s, and on past the early-twentieth ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Long Way Round

    by Paul Carter ...
    The Long Way Round is a poignant tale that follows the life of Tom as he navigates the challenges of growing up and entering young adulthood. The story explores the lasting impact of life's seemingly minor moments and the importance of childhood experiences. The story also explores how easily we can be distracted from recognising and appreciating the blessings we already have. Along the way, Tom ... Read more

    $6.16 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus