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Gotta Love This Country!

Great stories from around Australia to lift your heart, make you laugh and puff out your chest
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Gotta Love This Country! by Peter FitzSimons is a charming and humorous collection that celebrates the quirky, kind, and generous moments found in everyday Australian life. From an AFL legend taking his mum to the Brownlow instead of his girlfriend, to an Australian cricket captain playing street cricket with teenagers, and even a marbles championship win linked to a long-lost childhood treasure, these stories capture the heart and humour of grassroots sport and community spirit across the country.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book is ideal for readers who enjoy sports stories with a warm, humorous touch and fans of Australian culture and lifestyle tales that highlight the fun and unique nature of the nation.

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A celebration of chest puffing goodness and kindness from around the country written in inimitable Peter FitzSimon's style.

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You gotta love this country when an AFL legend takes his mum instead of his girlfriend to the Brownlow, when an Australian cricket captain joins a bunch of fourteen-year-olds for a bit of street cricket, when a bloke wins the Australian Marbles Championship after being reunited with the tom-bowlers his brother threw away forty years ago, and when the dry cleaner down the road is called Drop Your Pants.

Peter FitzSimons celebrates the good, the generous, the kind and the downright strange in this hilarious and heart-warming collection of stories from daily life and grassroots sporting fields around the country. It's enough for you to puff out your chest and say, Gotta Love This Country!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760295073

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 January 2017

Country: Australia

Imprint: Allen & Unwin

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 242g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Peter FitzSimons is one of Australia's most-loved authors with over twenty bestsellers to his name. As well as writing his weekly Fitz Files for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun-Herald, Peter is a regular TV commentator, an ambassador for good causes and a former Wallaby. In July of 2015, he became Chair of the Australian Republican Movement.

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