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Kokoda Spirit launched Nov 10 in Melbourne
George Palmer, one of the 39th Battalion's 'Ragged Bloody Heroes', and featured in the famous Damien Parer photo of the Kokoda Diggers slogging through the mud up the Track, launched Patrick's latest book, Kokoda Spirit, at the Old Observatory, opposite the Shrine, in Melbourne on Tuesday Nov 10. The launch was held in the presence of other Kokoda veterans, Alan 'Kanga' Moore, John Briscoe and Peter Holloway.
Kokoda Spirit is a richly-illustrated hardcover book honouring the spirit that sustained the Diggers in 1942 and which inpires trekkers today.
Speaking at the launch, Patrick said: "I wrote this book … to explore the spirit that sustained these men; to celebrate it; and to try to bring it to life in words and images. It’s dedicated to Stan Bisset and Phil Rhoden and George Palmer and all the men of Kokoda. And it’s aimed at all those who have walked the Track, following in their footsteps, or all those who wish they could walk it. I hope it does them, and their spirit, justice."
Kokoda Spirit is published by Hardie Grant Books and will sell for $49.95 in all good bookshops.
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Now is the Time goes international
Patrick's latest inspirational book, Now Is The Time, (170 ways to seize the moment) was recently published simultaneously in the U.S. and Australia. In the tradition of Patrick's best-selling It's Never Too Late series, Now Is The Time offers some small and easily achievable ways of taking control of your own destiny and living life to the fullest.
It's Never Too Late will also be published later this year in Dutch in The Netherlands and in Korean in South Korea. Hardie Grant Books will also be launching the hard-cover edition in the UK market in November.
The Coastwatchers
Patrick is well advanced in his research for a new book, The Coastwatchers.
This tiny ragtag group volunteered to stay behind in the islands and risk their lives by reporting on Japanese troop and ship movements. They were traders, planters, colonial officials, missionaries and a handful of sailors and soldiers. Hiding from constant Japanese patrols determined to find and kill them and using what today seem laughably cumbersome tele-radios, this heroic band sent signals that changed the course of the war.
Patrick has already interviewed a number of surviving Coastwatchers and is keen to speak to as many as possible and to families of Coastwatchers with diaries and personal accounts of their loved ones' service. If you can help please contact Patrick via this website.
Fromelles for the UK
Patrick's best-seller Fromelles is to go international.
In November this year, Hardie Grant UK will publish the updated paperback version in Britain.
The book's UK release will coincide with the exhumation and reburial of the missing Diggers and Tommies found in mass graves dug by the Germans in 1916 in Pheasant Wood, near Fromelles as disclosed in the book.