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Friday, July 31, 2009

Garth Paltridge on the Climate Caper

Monday, July 13, 2009

Hot new title for everyday parents!


Connor Court Publishing is please to announce the forthcoming title: Hot Tips for Cool Parents. According to Connor Court publisher Anthony Cappello, "this title goes to the heart of what we like about our philosophy on publishing. Its grass-roots, rural Victoria and based on life experience". while Ann Sexton, past Victorian State President and National Board Member of the Australian Breastfeeding Association praises Hot Tip for Cool Parents as follows: "Cath’s book provides a light hearted, easy to read and very practical approach to the life altering role of parenting. The strong focus of Hot Tips for Cool Parents on the importance of positive role modelling for young people sits well with the current research trends and fully supports those of us who work closely with young people and their parents."
Launches are being planned in Benalla, Wangaratta and at the Readings Bookstore in Carlton with Kerry Cue, established and well respected writer.
- Maria Giordano

Friday, July 10, 2009

Bishop Porteous on ABC's JJJ program

Yes, out of all places, the ABC (shock horror) showed Bishop Porteous and several priests.

Click here to watch:

It is these type of priests that Bishop Porteous writes about in his new book: After the Heart of God.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Plimer's book reviewed in the Daily Mail, (UK)

The following article appears in the Daily Mail in the UK,

ANDREW ALEXANDER: Hysteria is the real threat, not global warming

With Tony Blair launching his own plan to save the world (groans), and the G8 leaders also unveiling their thoughts about global warming, this is a big week for environmental fanaticism.

Click here for the full article


08 July 2009

www.dailymail.co.uk

From the Moorabool Leader


History of shire in new fiction for kids
lifestyle
Arts & Entertainment
07 Jul 09

by Amy Walker


A BALLAN publisher has talked a prolific Australian writer into localising a children’s book for Moorabool Shire.

Connor Court publisher Anthony Cappello has published a Moorabool-inspired version of James Tierney’s Squiggles and Squinter.

Mr Cappello said the book was set in 1875, with action taking place near Bacchus Marsh, Ballan, Gordon, Greendale and Mt Egerton.

“When he (James Tierney) approached me about his bushranging book, I declined as we do not publish fiction,” Mr Cappello said.

“However, with interest in using the book in schools in NSW and with Moorabool’s strong bushranging tradition, I asked him if we could rewrite the book to make our shire its setting. This he did, including landmarks such as Blackwood, Moorabool, and Moonlite’s trail.

“He even named the two families in the book as the Ballans and the Greendales.

“By making Squiggles and Squinter localised we are teaching children some of the rich history of the shire.”

The first three readers to email the correct answer to the following question will win a copy of the book along with Meg, Mog and Miss Molly by Ballan teacher Yvonne Horsfield. The question is where was Ned Kelly hanged? Email your answers to walkerad@ leadernewspapers.com.au.

Photo taken from the Moorabool Leader

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Vale Frank Devine


Frank Devine was a great friend of Connor Court. Always offering his support, always willing to do a review of our titles and always offering his advice. He will be missed. To the very end he was offering his help with Fr James Murray's book The Judas Tree. We posted his copy of The Judas Tree only a few weeks ago with a big thank you. For all the team at Connor Court, thank you for the witness of your life and for your steadfast religious beliefs - solid to the very end. May you rest in peace.

The following is taken from the Australian.


July 03, 2009
Article from: The Australian


VETERAN newspaper columnist and editor Frank Devine has died after a long illness. He was 77 years old.
Frank Devine

Frank Devine: A conviction journalist whose religious faith was central to his life.

Today he was described as the “laughing cavalier of Australian journalism,” by friend and former NSW opposition leader Peter Coleman on the website of The Australian newspaper, where Mr Devine was a former columnist and editor.

He had also been editor of the Chicago Sun-Times and the New York Post, a senior editor at the American edition of Reader's Digest and editor-in-chief of the Australian Reader's Digest.

He worked as a foreign correspondent in New York, London and Tokyo.

“His laughter, often noisy, was always infectious,” Mr Coleman said.

“He was a sports fanatic (he had a bookcase full of dog-eared Wisdens), a film buff (his favourite film was The Godfather), and a stylish writer with a love for words.”

Mr Devine was born in Blenheim, New Zealand on December 17, 1931.

He began his career as a journalist at the age of 17 on the New Zealand publication The Marlborough Express.

In 1953 he started work at The West Australian, where he met his wife Jacqueline. They married in 1959.

Mr Devine is survived by his wife and his three daughters Miranda, Alexandra and Rosalind.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

MEET PLIMER IN PERTH


Ian Plimer, the author of this year's most talked-about book Heaven and Earth, will be signing copies of his book in-store at lunch time on Friday 10 July.

Easily the most talked-about book of 2009, Heaven and Earth has brought the debate on the science of climate change to a new level.

Ian Plimer contends that current changes in climate, sea level and ice are within the range of natural variability and that they have always been driven by the Sun, the Earth’s orbit and plate tectonics. He asserts that there is no evidence from geology, archaeology, history or astronomy to support the hypothesis that humans can, in fact, change the Earth’s climate. At its most provocative, Heaven and Earth criticises the UN and the IPCC, and argues that anthropogenic climate change constitutes “a new ignorance that fills the yawning spiritual gap in Western society.”


Heaven and Earth presents an alternative view of the science and politics of climate change. You'll want to read this engaging book to decide whether it is simply a ‘convenient’ view or one to be taken as seriously as the literature it seeks to refute.

Ian Plimer is Professor of Mining Geology at The University of Adelaide and Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at The University of Melbourne where he was Professor and Head (1991-2005). He was previously Professor and Head of Geology at The University of Newcastle (1985-1991). His previous book, A Short History of Planet Earth, won the Eureka Prize.

Event Details:
Description:

Lunch time in-store book signing
Date:

Friday 10 July, 2009
Time:

11:30AM - 1:00PM
Venue:

Boffins Bookshop

806 Hay Street, Perth



Now in its fifth print-run, Heaven and Earth is essential reading for anyone even remotely interested in the climate change debate. Easily the most contentious book of 2009, it has raised the temperature of the debate, stirring up emotively expressed opinion wherever it is discussed.

Make sure you are at Boffins at lunch time on Friday 10 July to get your copy, meet the man responsible for it and see what all the fuss is about.



Can't make it?
We will be happy to have a copy signed for you. Simply pre-purchase and provide us with details of how you would like your copy personalised and we'll take care of the rest. To pre-purchase, you can visit us at the shop, email us, call us on 9321 5755, or purchase online by clicking here
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