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Hard Luck Motty has been through everything you can imagine. See if you can find someone who can top my life adventures! The famous people I have met and spent time with: Hollywood superstars, sporting greats. The family tragedies along the way.

It all started in a small industrial town in the north of England. Walking into a boxing gym was the start of an amazing metamorphosis for the 14-year-old. At age 20, he had developed into a 16-stone boxer, powerlifter, and ferocious street fighter, with a knock-out punch in both hands. This is the story of a young man who, lacking education, immigrated to Australia at just 18 years of age only to experience the twilight world of sleaze and violence in Perth’s underbelly, confronting and often overcoming the many challenges he encountered.

It is the story of friendship between Freddy and George, Freddy’s classmate whom Freddy meets in school in Paris. Moreover, it is also the story of Sigmund, whose patriotic blindness impacted his and his family’s life; the story of Nellie, who left Germany for Colombia before Nellie’s parents sought refuge in France; and whose mission would be to reunite the family in a peaceful and friendly country.

After promising Sigmund on his deathbed that they would reunite the family in a peaceful and friendly country, they make their way via ship to Colombia, the country Nellie had made her home just as the Nazi movement in Germany was gaining momentum. After their safe arrival, Freddy is forced to look for work in order to support his mother and himself while adjusting to new surroundings at the same time. After some fortuitous, work-related encounters, Freddy decides to not only run his own lingerie business but produce the raw materials he needs himself.

Imagine living in such a cold, desolate but beautiful place as the Arctic. Polar Bear shivers and quivers from the cold wind that blows and snowflakes that melt as they touch his warm nose. What strange creatures Polar Bear sees around him—whales that dive deep into the ocean, penguins that waddle and slip and slide on the ice but can swim like graceful ballerinas under water, brightly colored puffins who can fly and swim under water, the narwhal with its long pointed tusk. There is a lot to learn for a polar bear cub.

George tells the story of an 11-year-old Windrush boy who arrived in England from the island of Jamaica in 1965. The story is narrated in third-person and speaks of the boy’s first experience of being in a cold country, the absence of an introduction to his new family, the difficulties he faces as a new boy in a new school, the struggles to find his place, his resistance in conforming to stereotypical expectations, and his fights to maintain the self-pride and independence he learnt from his early years in Jamaica.

In extraordinary times, extraordinary things can happen. And these are most definitely extraordinary times. A dreadful virus is sweeping through the country—around the whole world, in fact—with consequences for us all. But in these troubled times, siblings Alexander and Lily discover many positives as they embark on an adventure into the unknown. Along the way they find that lots of important lessons are not learned in school!

Tom Hartley retires, and soon afterward, his wife dies. After years of happy marriage, he is left alone in the large family home. Realizing that he has to build himself a new life, he moves into a smaller house, tries new activities, and makes new friends among other lonely senior singles. He takes Spanish lessons and tries yoga, singles holidays, dancing, and tennis, and crosses America along Route 66, all with hilarious consequences as he throws himself into his new lifestyle. After gaining and losing one love, he finds another very unexpectedly.

Two conflicting weather systems, after wreaking havoc in North America and the West Indies, come across the Atlantic, the first in the far north, the second moving swiftly past the Azores. Both are held up by a massive anti-cyclone over Northern Russia and intensify, the first in the North Sea off Norway, blowing a hurricane southward, the second centred over Oxford, blowing a hurricane up the English Channel.

When eight-year-old Derek first heard the story of the Turnip Knight, he was obsessed. Now, he trains every day to be strong enough to one day become a Turnip Knight. But everyone around him tells him it isn't real! Strange things begin to happen around Derek and Doko Village. Perhaps the truth is not something anyone expected.

Tom isn’t anything to anyone. At least he wasn’t, until the dying wish of his father sent him on a seemingly impossible trek to find a lost wartime lover, unwittingly throwing Tom into a maelstrom of violence, death, and romance. An exciting and sometimes humorous escapade which started when a bereaved son had nothing better to do.