Yellow Shelf Podcast

When Leslie McDonald wins a trip to Las Vegas, an absurd holiday becomes a pilgrimage; one that leads her back to joy, back to herself, and to the astonishing realisation that her life still belongs to her. Leslie had felt for some time that life was a series of things that just happened to her. When her physiotherapist husband dumps her for a woman with superior posture, she finds herself lost wi...

 For the Long Run: Build Your Daily Operating System for Energy, Recovery and Wellbeing More energy today.  Better health for life. For the Long Run gives you a personalised system for protecting your energy, resilience and recovery, one habit at a time. The goal? Closing the gap between what you know you should do to feel your best ― and the key actions that are actually practical and sustainable...

Author Sophie Green returns with a sparkling story about the beauty of the second-hand, the power of second chances, and becoming who you were always meant to be (with a little help from your friends). On Sydney's lower north shore, in the harbourside suburb of Mosman, there is a charity frock shop. For decades, it has clothed the women of this suburb, through good times and bad, for richer,...

 Greatness Doesn't Care: How you become the greatest version of YOU FIND YOUR PURPOSE AND CHASE IT WITH EVERYTHING YOU’VE GOT. Greatness isn’t reserved for the privileged or the perfect. It doesn’t care where you come from, your age, what you look like, how much you have, your gender, your religion, or what you’ve been through. What it does ask of you is this: find your purpose, choose courag...

While searching for inspiration for what will be his final work, an unnamed poet and defender of Tasmania's wild places finds himself trapped down an abandoned mine in the island's mountain rainforests. In the darkness he is visited by memories and voices both from his own past as well as the tortured history of the pillaged landscape to which he has devoted his life and work.  Lost in a...

Book #3 of Antigone Pollard book series A dark, morally uncompromising crime novel about overturned justice, institutional failure, and the price paid when the system looks away. When the system fails, justice must take another form. When two convicted rapists walk free on appeal, the town of Deception Bay splits down the middle. The men swagger onto a packed cricket ground on Australia Day to a h...

The first novel in The Sufy Epic series ... One woman's battle for humanity's soul In a darkening world teetering on the edge of collapse, a young girl is torn from tragedy and thrust into destiny. Rescued by a cosmic guardian, Cha’nir is raised on the mystical island of Lotus High — a sacred bridge between Earth and the celestial realm of Muktiland. Trained to become the GuruMentor, Ear...

Fiona Fisher thought she had it all: a loving husband, three kids, and a life far away from the suffocating expectations of her family. But when her husband reveals that he’s leaving her for his secret second family, Fiona is left devastated and humiliated. Satoshi Tsukamoto wants it all. He’s the owner of a popular wine bar, and he’s studying for the hardest test in the world: the Master Sommelie...

 For A Moment More: A novel of living in the time of HIV/AIDS It’s 1993. Chris Roberts is thirty-three, HIV-positive for eight years and working at an Oxford Street hardware shop, while funerals, fear and failing health threaten to destroy him. Then, on a balmy night in Darlinghurst, everything shifts. At a dance party in Sydney’s gay ghetto – midway through a performance of 'Something’s Comi...

 … the strange thing that happened was I realised sport wasn’t my life. I realised that I had an abundance of sporting talent, but I took it for granted because it meant more to my fans than me. Against the backdrop of community football, the heir to a sweeping family fortune and the son of a prominent bikie gang leader forge an unlikely brotherhood. With their families locked in a long and bitter...

On the 3rd of September, 1939, the lives of two young Australians are changed forever when Neville Chamberlain declares that Britain is at war with Germany. On his farm in the outback of Victoria, fifteen-year-old Keith is wide-eyed at the news and bursting to hear what his schoolmates make of it. The announcement lands differently on the west coast, where the plans of Johnny and his young bride a...

Alex Grass's Infernal Tramps: Tales of Weird Terror .... A boy discovers his father's oracular grotesque in a secret dungeon below their family funeral home. An antique spiked collar transforms Philadelphia into a city that worships a dead dog. A video game dominates the market for years and then disappears, except for one man's memories of its horrors. A mother with a trunkful of h...

 Joey Rippa is one of the most naturally gifted footballers England's Second Division has ever seen. He's also one of the least interested in that fact. When Plymouth Argyle's pre-season tour brings him back to his homeland, Australia, for the first time since leaving his beloved Merri Bay, Rippa arrives late, sunburnt, and carrying an impressive holiday paunch. His long-suffering m...

A MAGICAL WORLD.  A RELUCTANT HERO.  A RAGTAG TEAM. It’s already been a bad day for Richard Parry, and that’s before he’s shot. After that it just gets worse. Thrown into a surreal world, he is seen by some as the manifestation of a prophecy and bringer of doom who might need to be soundly terminated. On the positive side, the Ministry of Insecurity think he will be useful on a suicide mission. Ri...

 Made for Walking is a contemporary novel.  It follows veteran television actor Syd Price, whose career is disrupted after being dropped from a long-running soap. He teams up with Chloe Anderson, a young model and social media influencer, to film riverside walks, but their partnership develops into a conflict over fame, ageing, and the changing media landscape.  Described as a novel being infused...

 A wild girl who once climbed on rooves. A secret never spoken. A catastrophe that changed everything. Frances adored and feared her beautiful, unpredictable mother. No one ever explained the sudden rages or the silence that settled over the family. Years later, now a composer, Frances looks back, searching her memories for the truth. As fragments of the past come into focus, she begins to uncover...

The Mould Maker: The Connie Beavers story: A life of secrecy, courage and transformation I looked up in wonder at the domes lining the ceiling of the Cinerama theatre, so proud my dad was their maker. The mould maker. Tami Lou grows up longing to be close to her father, only to watch him drift further into the self-destructive storm of a long-held secret. Through multi-day absences, divorce and re...

The Connect Effect: How to Build Loyalty, Ownership and Engagement with Your Leaders You became a leader to have an impact. Except your leadership team isn't making that easy. You're a driven and committed leader, so why are you still battling a leadership team that won't get on board the way you need them to? They're not engaging at the level expected, nor are they taking the...

For the first time on Yellow Shelf, we're shining a spotlight on a literary festival rather than a single #book or #author . In this very special episode, we chat with the fabulous Michaela Bolzan, Artistic Director of the Southern Highlands Writers Festival, about the festival, and what it takes to bring one of Australia's most inspiring regional literary festivals to life. Michaela sha...

The Quick-Start Guide to Your First Property: Pick Up Your Keys Simpler, Smarter and Sooner You’ve done everything right  ...got a job, cut back on spending, saved consistently  ....and yet property prices keep pulling further away.  Like millions of other young Australians, you feel locked out, watching the dream slip away despite your best efforts. Let’s get real: saving a 20% deposit isn’t prac...

Sleep First: Sleep Smarter, Think Sharper, Feel Better Sleep shapes everything: how you feel, think, perform and live.  Yet most of us treat it as an afterthought, something we'll get to after everything else is handled. The reality? Nothing works properly without sleep. Not your focus. Not your mood. Not your health. Not your relationships. In Sleep First, Dr Jemma King, expert researcher in...

'And here you are. You, who might feel the itch of an uncomfortable identity hanging heavy on your shoulders like a hair shirt. It is you I sing to. You who are tempted by the possibility of something more.' In the hope of salvaging their relationship, Miranda and Richard become caretakers of a remote island lighthouse off the coast of Tasmania. Richard wants to shake up the malaise that...

A fun, engaging story, perfect for children learning how to do something for the first time. Easy Peasy follows Ruby, who has just received her first pair of roller skates as a present from her dad. She’s convinced it will be easy peasy to learn how to roller skate and dismisses her dad when he offers to help her. But after a few tumbles, Ruby realizes it isn’t as easy as she thinks and she might...

 How To Be Happy: Stop Chasing Happiness, Learn the 5 Skills to Create It Instead You don't have to search endlessly for happiness.  You can practice it. You've worked hard, achieved your goals, and followed the well-meaning advice. Yet that sense of deep fulfilment still feels just out of reach. But the problem was never you. It's that no one ever taught you that happiness is a ski...

 THE BAD DAY PLAYBOOK: What to do when everything sucks Bad Days happen. The trick is not to pretend they don't, but to have a plan when they do. The Bad Day Playbook is your calm companion and usable game plan for those times when life flattens your spirit. It helps you notice when you're slipping into the spiral, take gentle control, and make small, meaningful shifts that bring you bac...