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Family Lore
About t̀he skeleton' inside every family.
I Have Kissed Your Lips
She began to flex roll her thighs and she watched his eyes glaze over. And he said nothing 'It's done,' she said, raising her lips to his faltering eyelashes. 'Now we can begin.'
All Day Long the Noise of Battle
During the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in February 1968 an Australian infantry company assaulted a North Vietnamese bunker complex. In the longest sustained attack fought by Australians during the Vietnam War the soldiers went forward again and again over three days. Yet the battle passed without any notice in Australia at the time, and the men who fought it were further insulted by higher command's apparent failure to acknowledge what they had done. Above all decorations for their bravery seemed pitifully meagre. What happened? Why did these men fall through the net of our historical memory? In answering these questions Gerard Windsor brings up into relief so many of the individual soldiers wh...
The Tempest-Tossed Church
The book is exploratory: What do I believe? What am I unsure about? Is religious belief reasonable? Written by Gerard Windsor, a knowledgeable insider who is also a superb writer, it's entertaining, stimulating and full of anecdote, history, forays into art and literature, and even a bit of gossip. Windsor starts on how you get religion in the first place, goes on to the Gospels and the personality of Jesus Christ and the possibility of any relationship with him. He then moves on to the existence and nature of God, winding down with the grubby present realities - the factions within current Catholicism, scandal, sexual abuse, argument and bigotry. Interlaced with twelve inspirational, edifying, moving cameos of true-life moments of grace, this is Windsor's take on religion, specifically Catholicism.
All Day Long the Noise of Battle
During the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in February 1968, an Australian infantry company assaulted a North Vietnamese bunker complex. In the longest sustained attack fought by Australians during the Vietnam War the soldiers went forward again and again over three days.
That Fierce Virgin
He is an Australian marketing man. She is an Irish country doctor. Their two worlds meet with unexpected results.
I Asked Cathleen to Dance
This intimate memoir traces Gerard Windsor's heady affair with the bewitching Cathleen ni Houlihan, with Ireland and the women of Ireland. After the seclusion and discipline of the Jesuit life evoked in Heaven Where the Bachelors Sit, Windsor breaks out into a story of freewheeling, serendipitous encounters.
I'll Just Tell You this
I'll Just Tell You This, the first book in Gerard Windsor's sequence of autobiographical memoirs, marked a new direction in Australian writing. Originally published as Family Lore, it has been extensively revised and includes an additional chapter. Five generations of an Irish Australian family confess and gossip their way through these pages. With tenderness and a precision that echoes the surgical art of so many of his ancestral characters, the author lays bare the stories and the sympathies that bind this family together. This is a book about traditions, about handing on the sources of a family's life - a notion emblematically suggested in a story about the transplanting of a heart. Murderous nuns and happy deaths, shrouds and the last days of Halley's Comet, widowhood and the composition of wills - this book is seldom far from the facts of mortality, yet it pulses with life. Imaginative, whimsical, moving, it's a true original.
Ned Kelly and the Odd Rellie
Ned Kelly and the Odd Rellie is all you need to know about Australian history in 100 pages! In the best traditions of larrikin wit, these micro verses sum up the claims to fame of 50 of our national greats. From now on this is how you'll remember your favourite Australian identities, from Banjo Paterson and William Bligh to Collette Dinnigan and Russell Crowe - immortalised in Gerard Windsor's four-line portraits and Michel Streich's irreverent colour illustrations.
