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TWO NOVELLAS BY TALENTED AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR BERNARD MARIN ON THE LONG SHADOW CAST BY WAR...BREAKFAST WITH PAUL: WE BEG TO DIFFERTwo old friends meet every Saturday for breakfast. Outwardly, their lives have followed similar paths - both are Jewish, both migrated from Europe after the war - but their childhoods are very different and shaped them in ways they are struggling to understand. Will their differences ultimately divide them, or bring them closer together?SURVIVING: MY STORYStasiek emigrated to Australia as a teenager before the Second World War, in which he served as a stretcher-bearer. He survived the Holocaust, but his beloved older brother, Beniek, whom he'd replaced on the boat to Australia, was murdered, as were his parents Pinkus and Sara, sister Gutka and many of his uncles and aunts.As an old man he reflects on his life and the price he has paid for surviving."A moving, thoughtful, powerful and personal book..." Roger, Readalot Magazine reviewer

The 1960s was a decade of social and political upheaval that reshaped every facet of American culture, from civil rights, through feminism, to gay liberation and the anti-Vietnam War movement.Bernard Marin takes readers into the heart of this turbulent time in an anthology of historical fiction. Through Bernard's eyes, we join a young journalist who witnesses both the Chicago riot of 1968, and the uproarious trial of the ringleaders who came to be called the Chicago Seven.We follow a university student who finds love while participating in the famous civil rights march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and witness a chance encounter at a department store lunch counter that transforms a young, Southern white woman into a civil rights activist.These colourful vignettes open a unique window into the most compelling chapters of the tumultuous 1960s.

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHAT IT MIGHT BE LIKE TO CHAT WITH SOME OF THE GREATEST PEOPLE EVER?Through the discussion between interviewer and interviewee, Bernard Marin has sought to offer insights into the personalities, passions and foibles of Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, John Stuart Mill and John Maynard Keynes. Join Bernard as he embarks on a scintillating, amusing and - at times - confronting literary journey through time and place to meet some of the giants of history. The result of a great deal of research into the life stories of the interview subjects and studied through both primary sources - those written by the characters - as well as articles, books and films made about them. During the research, Bernard established a baseline of fact that would lend credence to the fictionalised accounts that appear in People Who Have Changed The World: Imagined Interviews and what will become a legacy of historical fiction and thoughts for the generations to gain new perspectives within. "e;A very entertaining and intellectual work from a man who can write and question in many ways as he brings the persona of his interviewees to life in such clever ways...a triumph!"e; Colin, Indiebook Reviewer.

In his own version of Kafka's Letter to Father, Bernard Marin reflects on fatherhood: his own experience as the son of a distant and angry father, and as a loving father himself. Recalling his father's gambling, his anger, his indifference, Bernard is surprised to discover happiness in the time he spent with his father at their nursery, surrounded by plants. Both men were called upon to fight, but the outcomes were very different. Ultimately Bernard comes to terms with who his father was, and makes his peace.

Marin's life in accounting has introduced him to high flyers and those who might seem perfectly ordinary--to anyone else. With an eye for detail and a generous heart, he brings readers the stories that have moved him, filtered through a lively imagination, and remade as fiction.tion.

Remembering and forgetting can be conscious or unconscious acts, which can heal or harm. Bernard Marin's life has been rich in experience and intriguing characters. The author examines mental illness and family conflict, extramarital affairs and transgender issues, refugees and war, making ordinary lives extraordinary and more real.