offcuts stories (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. Darmody, Peter (illustrator). In.

Zustand: New. In.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is no ordinary collection of stories. It draws on the varied experiences of nine men who have led very different lives, but whose paths have eventually crossed at St John's Oxley Community Men's Shed. In this book these mostly first-time writers have taken the opportunity to share some of their fascinating stories from the past with their families and with the wider community. Many of these are never-before-told- tales, entertaining anecdotes that not only illuminate the writers' earlier lives, but often trigger our own memories too. In these stories we meet a former fitter and turner who as a boy decided to see what would happen when he packed gunpowder from leftover fireworks into a fruit tin and lit the fuse; a retired meat inspector who had to escape hand over hand down a rope off a high church roof when his ladder collapsed; an ex-plumber who starred in a Bollywood movie and dodged bombs and bullets while driving a tour bus in the Middle East; a former photographer who once had the ultimate hand in a boarding house poker game; and a retired insurance underwriter who relives his late-night dash home to dive under the bedclothes before the resident ghost appeared. Then there's a Vietnamese veteran driving an Army forklift who literally backed himself into an embarrassing corner with his commanding officer; an ex-teacher who was driving his prized first car through South Brisbane when the back seat caught fire; a former electrician who turned jackeroo to help out his mate on a cattle drive in northern NSW; and a retired agronomist who as a young man led a hiking group down a mountain during a cyclone, with intriguing romantic results. This is a heady mix of yarns from a group of writers keen to tell their often remarkable, sometimes humorous, occasionally hair-raising but always heartfelt stories.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Darmody, Peter (illustrator). Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Stories from Bill Thirkill, William Barker, Jeff Thorpe, Trevor Armstrong, John Brown, Dave Shearer, Graham Trimble, Darryl Dymock (Editor), David Hands, Jim Pascoe and James Vernon with illustrations by Peter Darmody, Anthony Durrington, George Pugh, Brian Goeldner, Graham Murphy, and Paul Watkins.If you've seen one or both of the previous two Offcuts books from Oxley Men's Shed, you'll know what a smorgasbord of delights they serve up.Offcuts 3 is better than ever - 11 writers, 6 artists and 28 stories to entertain, stimulate and challenge us all. The stories and poems in this collection are set in almost every Australian state and territory, and internationally in Tonga, Vietnam, New Zealand, Nepal and Iran. All creatively illustrated, they cover a range of topics that show the diversity of backgroundsof the Oxley Men's Shed Writers Group. You'll be fascinated, amused and amazed in turn by tales of shipping disasters, bureaucratic bungles, tricky family relationships and remarkable holidays (including one that wasn't), not to mention a close call on a slippery roof, a wild cow hunt, a triple-O call, a loaded gun, battling prickly pear, a tender love story and. just read Offcuts 3 for yourself! You won't be disappointed.