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2024 Week 36: The many faces of Ishmael.

Posted on September 11, 2024 by mgbauer

Don’t Call Me Ishmael has been my most commercially successful book selling over 100,000 copies in Aust/NZ and being published in another seven countries including Germany where it has been a best seller and used as a school text. (The … Continue reading →

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2024 Week 35: Father days.

Posted on September 4, 2024 by mgbauer

In honour of Father’s Day just passed I’m rebloging (again) something I wrote for my father when he died. It was included in the funeral booklet. Because my father worked away from home all of my childhood and into my … Continue reading →

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2024 Week 34: Bananas, bookings, books and brekkie.

Posted on August 28, 2024 by mgbauer

I had a rare school visit this week speaking to the Year 8 girls at Lourdes Hill College in Brisbane who had read my book DON’T CALL ME ISHMAEL. The students were lovely and the talk was fun. I actually … Continue reading →

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2024 Week 33: Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you (except if you come from Melbourne).

Posted on August 20, 2024 by mgbauer

Last week our awesome daughter Meg was up from Melbourne for some Wilderness Society work meetings. She stayed with us along with our two gorgeous, full of energy, non-stop grandkids. And of course after weeks and weeks of blue skies, … Continue reading →