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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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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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See moreA 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!
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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
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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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