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I do love travelling. Sometimes I think it''s an addiction and I have to do it... But I also want to do it and need to do it; as it''s part of keeping my body moving. In 2006 my world changed when I had to retire early from work because of multiple sclerosis (MS). I''d a successful career in the health industry and there was a lot more I wanted to achieve but had to leave. Because I wasn''t working, I had time. Managing a chronic illness takes time but I also had spare time. With that I could do more of the things that I loved, such as travelling. I also discovered that I enjoyed writing about these experiences. Travels with my scooter have often ended up with so many funny stories from things that happened, I''ve ended up with more interesting and funny times than when I travelled without it. I cannot travel alone as I did before on my first trip overseas in 1976. I need Sue now, who is my best friend and helper these days. She travels with me everywhere and we are a great team. I''ve written this collection of travel tales of my adventures over the last forty years. Some are from when I was in my twenties and others more recently with my scooter. All of them are filled with my passion for living life and enjoying the wonderful experiences of a world I am lucky to have seen and look forward to seeing more of. I trust you will find your own enjoyment in my sharing."A wonderful collection of great adventures and human spirit with the true Australian humour and flare for the absurd...a great book and read by a very real and talented author..." Dillon, Indiebooks reviewer. "...It is a testament to the joys and surprises that await someone who takes the plunge and just hits the road. Maureen Corrigan is an adventurer in the truest meaning of the word. She started her pursuit of travel after being diagnosed with MS. She is herself a physician, which may explain in part why she didn''t just curl up in a ball and focus on things she couldn''t do when she found out she had MS, but instead focused on doing the things she had always dreamed of doing. That''s taking lemons and opening a lemonade stand. My hat off to her and I find myself thinking that this is a person I would love to meet..." Ray Simmons, Readers'' Favorite USFor many years, Dr Maureen Corrigan was a medical practitioner who worked in a broad range of healthcare roles, from general practitioner to hospital and health S service CEO. She retired early as a result of developing multiple sclerosis (MS). Maureen is now able to pursue her many other passions, including travel and writing, which has led her to say, ''I sometimes think getting MS was the best thing that happened to me!''

A SMALL-TOWN BUSHFIRE, RUMOURS OF A MURDER VICTIM, A CHILD ABDUCTED...Isla's recent divorce inspires a desire for change, as she uproots her family from a contented city life to relocate them to a remote country town. She takes a new job and is fortunate that an old house is included with it. Her two young girls, Josie and Mia, do not like the move at all and make settling into the town stressful.No friends or family are close, and Isla and her daughters feel isolated and estranged within the desolate land and alien community. Isla's parents still carry past issues with Isla and her sisters, following the freak death of their brother when they were younger, but present events may heal this rift in the family...A man living in the foreboding ruin beyond the paddock makes an unexpected and shocking appearance.Recently released from jail for murdering his wife, which he furiously denies, he wants Isla and her girls out of the house they occupy for reasons unknown to anyone, and he sets out to instigate their FEAR... "Another finely written and emotional story by my favourite author who seems able to immerse her characters in realistic situations and experiences that I wonder if it is fact or fiction... brilliant reading!" Sharon, Readalot Reviewer

WILL BRONNY BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO FIND HER WAY HOME ALL BY HERSELF?Bronny, an adventurous and curious young dinosaur, sees a beautiful butterfly with colourful wings. Amazed by its beauty, Bronny follows the butterfly as it dances on the wind. Time goes by quickly, when Bronny realises she is lost and has wandered far away from her mummy. Join Bronny the Dinosaur as she experiences an adventure she did not expect and finds her confident self as she gains the help from the wiser dinosaur, Tracey Pterodactyl, on her journey back to her mummy. Bronny knows her mummy is waiting for her, and she must get home."A beautifully drawn and presented tale of innocence from a new author who cares about the story she shares with her new young readers...well done and loved it..." Barbera, Indiebook reviewer

Every year thousands of Sydneysiders visit the Art Gallery of NSW to view the entrants in the Archibald Prize for Portraiture. Across Australia thousands more go to see the travelling exhibition. Sydney's fountain in Hyde Park is named after him.He was the founding editor of one of our nation's most iconic newspapers, The Bulletin. Yet very little is known about J.F. Archibald. Born and educated in the Victorian goldfields, he arrived in Sydney in his early twenties with little more than a dream. As editor of The Bulletin newspaper, he nurtured the careers of Australian writers and artists from Miles Franklin and Banjo Paterson to Norman Lindsay and Florence Rodway. Yet, the man behind the prize lived a life that was not without tragedy and mystery."...a wonderful and professional job as author and biographer to the great Australian man we all know of, but little about..." ~ James, Indiebook Reviewer