Bizarre, bloody and baffling true stories from the hospital ED, told by bestselling author and paramedic Tim Booth.When paramedic Tim Booth finds himself rushing a patient's dead cat to a (human) hospital's Emergency Department for resuscitation, he finds himself wondering where it all went wrong.From bedroom mishaps and hypochondriacs to suspicious rashes and freak cattle incidents, the doctors, nurses and paramedics of our hospital EDs have seen everythin...

Death is a certainty, but what happens in the lead-up - and in its aftermath - is anything butpredictable.Nobody knows this better than those who work with death every day. There's no time for anexistential crisis when your 9-to-5 involves responding to fatal plane accidents, transporting organsfor urgent surgery, or fending off a dying man's request for Nickelback.In this book, bestselling author and paramedic Tim Booth reveals the darkly funny, often ...

Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency callout for someone short of breath turns out to be an adult man with a blocked nose. Far from beginner's luck, this turns out to be an omen for the rest of his paramedic career.Between the obligatory stories of objects lodged in body cavities and grown men who can't look after themselves when their wives are away, Tim finds that the promised life-saving moments are far outweighed by the trivial, frustrating and bizarre ambulance callou...

Growing up with Parents who have Learning Difficulties uses a life-story approach to present new evidence about how children from such families manage the transition to adulthood, and about the longer-term outcomes of such an upbringing. It offers a view of parental competence as a social attribute rather than an individual skill, assessing the implications for institutional policies and practices. The authors address the notion of children having to parent their disabled parents ...

Meet Seth Brakes. Musician. Reluctant romantic. Inherent troublemaker. Addict.And three hundred and twenty days sober.After a near-death experience, Seth is carving a new path for himself. Having reformed the band - the infamous Lucky Fuckers - things are looking up for Seth: gigs are falling back into the diary, he's in love and finally getting back to what he enjoys most: writing music.That is until his past starts to creep up on him . . .A dark comedy tha...

Death is a certainty, but what happens in the lead-up - and in its aftermath - is anything butpredictable.Nobody knows this better than those who work with death every day. There's no time for anexistential crisis when your 9-to-5 involves responding to fatal plane accidents, transporting organsfor urgent surgery, or fending off a dying man's request for Nickelback.In this book, bestselling author and paramedic Tim Booth reveals the darkly funny, often ...

Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency callout for someone short of breath turns out to be an adult man with a blocked nose. Far from beginner's luck, this turns out to be an omen for the rest of his paramedic career.Between the obligatory stories of objects lodged in body cavities and grown men who can't look after themselves when their wives are away, Tim finds that the promised life-saving moments are far outweighed by the trivial, frustrating and bizarre ambulance callou...

Bizarre, bloody and baffling true stories from the hospital ED, told by bestselling author and paramedic Tim Booth.When paramedic Tim Booth finds himself rushing a patient's dead cat to a (human) hospital's Emergency Department for resuscitation, he finds himself wondering where it all went wrong.From bedroom mishaps and hypochondriacs to suspicious rashes and freak cattle incidents, the doctors, nurses and paramedics of our hospital EDs have seen everythin...

In 2003 Kathleen Folbigg was convicted of killing her four babies. Her trial relied on her husband's accusations and diary entries expressing her guilt over her children's deaths. She was sentenced to forty years in prison.In Inside Out Kathleen takes us back to her traumatic childhood, her difficult marriage, her dream of nurturing a family, and the profound souring of that dream into a nightmare.This is also , however, a story of unwavering friendship and resilie...

A memoir about sea changes, marriage and riding the waves of midlifeWhen Covid lockdowns hit Melbourne, metropolitan midlife couple Kate and Chris decide to make a sea change and move to a small coastal town to ease financial pressures and live out the beach lifestyle many of us dream of. But they didn't give much thought to just how different it would be.With late night drinking sessions in Melbourne's coolest suburbs replaced by the disconcerting peace of a summer destina...

'Full of atmosphere and shocks' THE TIMES'One of the best Aussie thriller debuts since Chris Hammer's Scrublands' PETERBOROUGH TELEGRAPH'The pace spirals and the twists multiply' S. R. WHITE , author of international bestseller Hermit------------Ten years ago, six teenagers hiked into the Blue Mountains wilderness - and only five came out alive.The survivors have b...

Eighteen missing people, multiple families grieving, and one person looking for answers in this forensic and moving re-examination of some of Australia's most heartbreaking missing persons casesEvery 14 minutes in Australia, someone vanishes. Of the 38,000 missing persons reported each year, most return. But for the families of those who don't, it's a nightmare they never wake up from.There are currently 2600 long-term missing Australians. On top of that, 700 unidentified b...