Welcome to the website of best-selling author and public speaker Patrick Lindsay.
INTRODUCING … bookviews
Think movie trailers for books
I’ve created a series of video previews of my most recent books, Kokoda Spirit and Fromelles, to give you a feeling for their style and content.
I call them bookviews.
I hope to briefly capture the essence of the books in words and images so readers can browse them electronically.
The videos are on YouTube and you should be able to reach them with a single click. Please let me know what you think of them.
Fromelles bookview
Kokoda Spirit bookview
Now is the Time continues international growth
Patrick's latest inspirational book, Now Is The Time, (170 ways to seize the moment) has been published in the U.S, and now, in Dutch, in the Netherlands, in Korean, in South Korea and soon, in Indonesian, in Indonesia. 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.
Patrick's original book in the series, It's Never Too Late is in its third reprint in the US and is now prublished in the Netherlands, Korea and also soon in Indonesia. Hardie Grant Books will also be launching the hard-cover edition in the UK market shortly.
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 has also gone international.
Hardie Grant UK has released the updated paperback version in Britain.
The book's UK release coincides 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.
The Missing soldiers of Fromelles will be commemorated with the opening of the new Pheasant Wood cemetery on the 94th anniversary of the battle on 19th July this year.