Yellow Shelf Podcast

Toppling Towers Of Power: How one woman defied bullies, fought for justice, and changed the law for millions. You’re not alone. Toppling Towers of Power reveals the true story of Jo Cooper’s six-year fight against systemic bullying, gaslighting, and abuse of power inside a strata community. When those entrusted to help turned away, she refused to be silenced. This battle evolved into a legal showd...

 Somebody knows. Somebody knows who gave Logan a pill that ended his life at Ravensbourne Music Festival. Somebody knows what it was like to be loved by Logan, and to write him letters they never thought would be found. Maisie McDevitt is going to find that somebody, even if it means infiltrating the worst group of people she knows: the Year 12 drama students at Morningford College, the most elite...

It is 1756.  In a mountain village outside Venice, 13-year-old Anna Maria Bonon lives with her grandmother and her father, Giacomo. In the daytime, she cards wool at the local mill.  At home, she raises silk worms. Giacomo is one of the forestieri (outsiders) in the community, scrambling for work, drinking his sorrows away at the osteria, stealing by the cover of night.  When he is arrested for at...

Angry, Grateful & Still Alive is a memoir by Kate Gale chronicling her journey through multiple cancer diagnoses, personal challenges, and the pursuit of resilience and purpose. Three cancers.  A stroke.  Countless surgeries.  And still she refused to quit. With unflinching honesty Kate shares the extraordinary true story of navigating illness, motherhood, marriage, loss and hope while refusin...

Becoming Venus: Rose had no idea empowerment could look like this .. A debut novel from viral sensation Esmé Louise James (Kinky History creator with 3.5m+ followers). Years after PhD student and literature tutor Rose thought she’d left Adrian in the past, an impulsive message pulls her back into his orbit. It reignites a spark long since buried beneath the weight of her carefully constructed life...

Switch Thinking: The 2-Minute Switch to Boost Your Creativity, Energy and Focus The mental flexibility to handle anything and get unstuck ... built in just two minutes Most performance advice focuses on what to do before or after high-stakes moments. You prepare thoroughly beforehand. You debrief and reflect afterward. But when the interview question catches you off guard, the presentation goes si...

Mostly Ups: How I survived a flesh-eating bacteria 24 hours can change everything. When Kerryn Harvey walked out of hospital with nothing more than a patched-up elbow after a minor bike crash, she never expected she’d be back the next night fighting for her life. What followed was a nightmare: hours of life-threatening surgeries, anxious pacing in hospital corridors and distressed phone calls to l...

Amy Chan is a queer, twenty-something artist, broke and living one bad shift away from financial disaster. Edward Smith is affluent and white, his descent into a lonely middle age cushioned by generational wealth.   This is the story of their relationship – one that is lopsided, transactional and arguably doomed from the start, but that shifts their worlds in unexpected ways. Because, as Amy comes...

When Christopher Tiffen discovers a painting by little-known Antipodean surrealist Robert J. Wake in the Sydney Art Gallery one summer, he is smitten by both the mysterious artist and the woman by his side viewing the painting Agnes Alert of Barcelona. Tiffen is struggling with his research and Robert J. Wake offers him a rich seam. So begins the intriguing search from Sydney to London and Wake&ap...

Violet Town is a captivating story of forbidden love and loss in the time of war. It's 1939, and the Second World War has just begun. Catherine Hawkins, an orphan and scholarship student with dreams of Oxford University, is entering her final year at Dashwood Boarding School in the English countryside. Intelligent, ambitious and determined to shape a future beyond the limitations of her upbri...

 No One Told Me. Stillbirth, infertility, depression and more A deeply personal story of Christina and the difficulties she encountered with stillbirths, infertility, grief, depression including 35 operations over 20 years. It’s a story of determination and courage when tragedy hits.  It’s the book Christina had wished was available when she was experiencing all her challenges.  As Christina says,...

Book 1 of 1: The Pacifica Series Five Billionaires. One Planet. No Mercy. Five billionaires built their fortunes on social media manipulation, toxic mining, deadly weapons, tainted drinks, and the destruction of the world’s last forests. Together, they became “Los Cincos” — the most dangerous men alive, symbols of a global elite willing to sacrifice the planet for profit. And then they vanished. A...

How to Adult: A Psychological Guide You don’t need more motivation, another productivity hack or someone telling you to “think positive”. What you need is for your internal life to catch up with the mask you wear which says, “I’m fine”. How to Adult is for those who are capable and functional and yet find themselves stuck in old patterns of behaviour, mental habits that don’t stick, confidence tha...

Freedom Gameplan Build Wealth. Live Free. Reclaim Time. Most people work hard for decades, yet still feel trapped by money. The alarm clock rings, the bills keep coming and, despite earning more than ever before, true financial freedom still feels just out of reach. Freedom Gameplan offers a different way to think about wealth. Instead of focusing on chasing millions, financial planner Amir Rodnia...

In a town scarred by floodwaters, the past refuses to stay buried. When a catastrophic flood rips through the rural town of Birradurra, a shocking cold case is discovered. Unearthed from the mud are the skeletal remains of a baby. Shaken by this and haunted by her traumatic past, journalist Bec Carter is consumed with getting justice for the victim. But when her friend Harry who vowed to help with...

Seekers, Sinners & Me: Walking, love and gratitude 'To have Jack determinedly walking with me was his precious gift. I had heard other pilgrims talking of the transformative powers of the Camino. God knows, I could do with some transformation, but I didn't dare hope for anything so fancy. All I cared about was having this chance to reconnect with my beloved Jack.' A compelling,...

Fables & Lies A WWII Novel Based on a True Story WWII Berlin. Freyja Bremer, a patriotic museum assistant, marries Kaspar Voigt, an ambitious SS scholar, to protect her father. Yet she is unaware her husband is instrumental in Himmler's twisted quest for Aryan supremacy. As she strives to safeguard the priceless Priam's Treasure from air raids, Freyja falls in love with Darien Lessin...

SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems Transform your owner-dependent business into a profitable, well-oiled machine that runs itself. Most business owners think that they must be the ones to document their processes when systemising their operations. But systems devotee David Jenyns has found that they’re typically the worst people to be doing...

Legacy, Country and the Unyielding Battle for Australia's Heartland From the moment Bob's great-great-grandfather William Yabsley leapt from the HMS Beagle in 1838 to carve out a future on Australia's northern rivers, resilience has run through the Yabsley family story. William built ships, founded the town of Coraki, and left behind a legacy of hard work and community spirit that c...

 Award-winning writer delivers a pulse-pounding espionage thriller. Missing soldiers, MI6 secrets and European partisans collide in a deadly game where the lines between lies and reality are fast disintegrating. In the dying days of the Second World War, a new conflict is about to ignite. May, 1945: After fighting to liberate Europe from the Nazis, Tito's Yugoslav Army and Allied forces have...

Why Not?: Breaking Limits in Sport, Business and Life Matt Formston AM is a multi-sport World Champion, Guinness World Record holder and Paralympian. Parallel to his elite sporting achievements, he has built a career as a senior corporate executive, board chair and executive coach. He is also blind. None of Matt’s successes happened by accident. They were won through a system ― the eight Hard Stan...

The 500 Lunches Effect: How social courage changes everything .. explores a simple but powerful idea: many people’s lives and careers are limited not by ability, intelligence or opportunity, but by hesitation in social situations. The book began with a personal experiment. Curious about how relationships shape opportunity, Nick Bendel set himself an unusual challenge: to have lunch with 500 strang...

The Cost of Not Caring: Working while caring in the era of longevity. Written for CEOs, directors, managers, employees and government, it makes a compelling business case in dollars and sense for supporting people working and caring for ageing parents – and others. The Cost of Not Caring: Working while caring in the era of longevity  is the single most important book companies, managers, governmen...

When Flight MH066 mysteriously vanishes an hour after leaving Kuala Lumpur, the world assumes catastrophe. In truth, its passengers are en route to an abandoned Soviet airbase in Tajikistan, recruited into Project Lazarus, a covert scheme offering broken souls a chance to begin again. At its center is James, a former MI6 officer determined to seize control of his life by giving others an escape fr...

 A terrifying new psychological thriller. Christmas Eve, 1974. As Cyclone Tracy tears through Darwin, four girls disappear into the heart of the outback. No tracks. No bodies. No answers. Decades later, one returns. She claims to be one of the missing. But is she? There is no proof of who she is, only a keepsake that once belonged to another missing woman - Sally, a teen mother whose disappearance...