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Ride Like Hell and You'll Get There

Detours into mayhem

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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

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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
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Tales of a Country Doctor

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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

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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
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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

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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
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Richard Nixon

California's Native Son

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Gold Winner for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book AwardWinner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer First Horizon AwardWinner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer Reference Book AwardWinner of the 2024 Best Book Award from American Book FestShortlisted for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Grand PrizeModern biographies of Richard Nixon have been consumed with Watergate. All have missed arguably the most important perspective on Nixon as ... Read more

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Gold Winner for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book AwardWinner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer First Horizon AwardWinner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer Reference Book AwardWinner of the 2024 Best Book Award from American Book FestShortlisted for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Grand PrizeModern biographies of Richard Nixon have been consumed with Watergate. All have missed arguably the most important perspective on Nixon as
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Storming Party

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Series Audiobook 2 - Shadow on the Crown
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Rivalry and battle abound in this action-packed historical adventure of the English Civil War.1643: Sir William Waller's army has been defeated on Roundway Down, his infantry left stranded on the bleak slopes at the mercy of the Royalist cavalry. Sir Ralph Hopton is now free to turn his attention to Parliament's bastion in the West – Bristol.The city walls are strong enough, but Bristol has ... Read more

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Rivalry and battle abound in this action-packed historical adventure of the English Civil War.1643: Sir William Waller's army has been defeated on Roundway Down, his infantry left stranded on the bleak slopes at the mercy of the Royalist cavalry. Sir Ralph Hopton is now free to turn his attention to Parliament's bastion in the West – Bristol.The city walls are strong enough, but Bristol has
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Black Tom's Red Army

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Series series Shadow on the Crown
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The deciding Battle of Naseby looms on the horizon in this historical adventure of the English Civil War.It is more than a year since printer's apprentice turned Parliamentarian soldier William Sparrow and his Royalist rival Hugo Telling last came to blows. Parliament's armies, bruised beaten and humiliated despite their ever-increasing numerical advantage, have been reconstituted as the New Model ... Read more

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The deciding Battle of Naseby looms on the horizon in this historical adventure of the English Civil War.It is more than a year since printer's apprentice turned Parliamentarian soldier William Sparrow and his Royalist rival Hugo Telling last came to blows. Parliament's armies, bruised beaten and humiliated despite their ever-increasing numerical advantage, have been reconstituted as the New Model
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Harvest of Swords

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Series Audiobook 4 - Shadow on the Crown
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Rivalry in love and battle in this historical adventure set in the English Civil War.In the late autumn of the first year of the English Civil War, William Sparrow and Hugo Telling are again caught up in the impossible confusion tearing the country and their lives apart. This time, their greatest battles, fought on both land and sea, are with a new enemy, Lord Clavincale.As they struggle through ... Read more

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Rivalry in love and battle in this historical adventure set in the English Civil War.In the late autumn of the first year of the English Civil War, William Sparrow and Hugo Telling are again caught up in the impossible confusion tearing the country and their lives apart. This time, their greatest battles, fought on both land and sea, are with a new enemy, Lord Clavincale.As they struggle through
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Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs...She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse

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'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

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'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
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Stand by the Colours

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Series Audiobook 5 - Shadow on the Crown
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8 hours 39 min

Loyalty is tested to its limits in this thrilling English Civil War adventure.In the opening days of 1644, there seems to be little hope for Parliament's soldiers. To William Sparrow and his men, the woods of Dorset are a snow-covered sanctuary – even on Christmas Day – from the horrors of Penmethock and pursuit by the King's men. Hugo Telling has finally returned home, ready to introduce his ... Read more

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Loyalty is tested to its limits in this thrilling English Civil War adventure.In the opening days of 1644, there seems to be little hope for Parliament's soldiers. To William Sparrow and his men, the woods of Dorset are a snow-covered sanctuary – even on Christmas Day – from the horrors of Penmethock and pursuit by the King's men. Hugo Telling has finally returned home, ready to introduce his
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The Road to Botany Bay

An Exploration of Landscape and History

by Paul Carter ...

The Road to Botany Bay, first published in 1987 and considered a classic in the field of cultural and historical geography, examines the poetic constitution of colonial society. Through a far-reaching exploration of Australia’s mapping, narrative description, early urbanism, and bush mythology, Paul Carter exposes the mythopoetic mechanisms of empire. A powerfully written account of the ways in ... Read more

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The Road to Botany Bay, first published in 1987 and considered a classic in the field of cultural and historical geography, examines the poetic constitution of colonial society. Through a far-reaching exploration of Australia’s mapping, narrative description, early urbanism, and bush mythology, Paul Carter exposes the mythopoetic mechanisms of empire. A powerfully written account of the ways in
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Is That Thing Diesel?

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

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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

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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
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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

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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
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