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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 ACT BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDAfter 50 years as an Australian diplomat, UN official, intelligence analyst, academic and company director working in and on the Middle East, Bob Bowker enjoys unique insights into the challenges, professional and personal, of representing Australia in the Arab world. In this occasionally light-hearted professional memoir, revealing something of the person behind the diplomat, he sets out his views and reflections on major Middle East issues and into what makes diplomacy in the Arab world effective. He also captures the complexity, the drama, the ambiguity and sometimes the absurdity of certain situations he faced as an Australian ambassador in the Arab world:-A sacked local staff member in Syria was found to be an informer for the secret police.-Overnight, a shipload of Australian sheep became Bulgarian.-A judge in Sudan successfully prosecuted his own case in a murder trial.-As demonstrators hurled stones and bottles toward his office, women in his microenterprise program in Gaza sold soft drinks to the crowd.Praise for Tomorrow There will be Apricots:Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC, Australian Foreign Minister 1988-96An evocative account by one of Australia's most accomplished diplomats of the highs and lows, rewards and frustrations, delights and stresses of diplomatic life-not least, it seems, in working with their Ministers. But also a deeply thoughtful analysis of the multiple geopolitical challenges the Middle East continues to pose, charting possible ways forward in writing that is often provocative but always stimulating. Two books for the price of one-and both eminently worth the purchase. Nick Warner AO PSM, former Director of the Office of National Intelligence, Director General of ASIS, Secretary of the Department of Defence, and Australian Ambassador to Iran.The Middle East matters to Australia, and we have been lucky in recent decades to have a group of exceptional diplomats dedicate their careers to understanding the region. Bob Bowker has been the dean of this group. His important book throws light on the history of our relationship with the Middle East, where we have gone wrong and right, and what we should do now. Professor the Hon Bob Carr, Australian Foreign Minister 2012-13.As Foreign Minister I grew to admire the razor-sharp insights of our best diplomats. It was an education and a pleasure to read their cables and savour their briefings. Bob Bowker in his memoirs delivers deep knowledge matched with sound judgement not least in his appraisal of the Arab world and, among other things, its relationship with Israel and the Israeli rule of the 4.5 million Palestinians in the occupied territories. All our best diplomats should write books like this.Professor Amin Saikal AM FASSA, Founding Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, ANUDr Bowker has combined the skills, experiences and nuances of a very seasoned diplomat and academic analyst to produce a fascinating memoir. More than a story of his successful journey through the minefields of Arab politics and society, it is also a very enriching intellectual analysis of various tensions and conflicts that continue to shape the Arab world. The volume is a must read for not only policy and opinion makers, but also for students of the Middle East.

A SEARCH FOR JUSTICE AND THE LONGING FOR PEACE.Katy's world is shattered. Her husband, Simon, has been murdered in a remote Cambodian border village. What was he doing there?Unable to sleep in peaceful Melbourne, Katy seeks solace in Simon's study: A remembered smell, a half-read book, something. What she finds is an unfinished manuscript, called Chavy's Story, hinting at Simon's secretive work. It tells the harrowing story of a young village girl trafficked for sex.Katy travels to Cambodia in search of answers. The riddles buried in the pages of Chavy's Story unmask a forgotten horror from Katy's childhood.Chavy's Story will change Katy's life forever..."Masterful and gripping, as if the author anticipates everything we as readers will demand and he delivers...Exceptional follow on to The Diary of Katy Yehonala..." Kelly, Indiebook Reviewer

THREE LITTLE DEWDROPS...SPLISH,SPLOSH ANDSPLASH.Have come to play and visit with you on this wet, rainy day!What wonderful watery mischief will these three little droplets of dew get up to?"A delightful myriad of mischief and adventure for a trio of droplets from the creative imagination of one of the most talented new children's authors to rise in the ranks of Australian talents...a perfect book." Rachel, Indiebook reviewers.

THE MATRYOSHKA DOLL IS A MEMOIR DEPICTING ONE FAMILY'S STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS.Tatiana is the daughter of a Russian Imperial Colonel, Ivan Georgievitch Savin; and finds her family is swept into the ravages of the Russian Revolution and the Civil War that follows. Tatiana's idyllic life is altered forever. The 1917 Revolution sweeps through Russia setting in motion the political and social reforms that lead to the formation of the Soviet Union. With the downfall of Imperial Russia, Ivan takes his family out of Russia. They journey to Harbin in China with devastating and heartbreaking events across the trail, leaving three children destitute. The terror of Communism comes to Harbin when the Soviet Russian Army liberates Harbin from Japanese rule. Tatiana, now married with children, is about to relive the horrors of Communism once again. They flee to Brasil to start a new life and survive the agony of their past.A decade later, Communism becomes a threat in Brasil. My mother, Tatiana again flees with us to find sanctuary and hope somewhere safe. At the age of fourteen, I leave my beloved Brasil behind, and I am catapulted into an unknown world.This is a chronicle of my own beautiful life in China, Brasil and now in Australia, thanks to my courageous family and the unthinkable sacrifices made to survive..."A classic tale of truth and pain through decades of family history that seems too real to be true and too sad to be considered anything else...a narrative of heartfelt words that draws you in like hypnotic road accidents and then leaves you suspended in held breath with every page that flips past you...wonderful and inspiring..." Karen, Indiebook reviewer

SPRINGTIME IS CAUSING SOME ISSUES FOR CLAIRE...THE MAGPIES ARE GIVING HER QUITE A SCARE! Claire needs to get hay to her horse, but a quick and crafty bird keeps blocking her course. Can Claire devise a plan that outwits and out crafts The Crafty Magpie?"This new author has created a fun little book we all can relate to and have had an event with a crafty magpie at one time or another...well done Kaitlyn, keep writing these great kid tales!" Jenny, indiebook reviewer