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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

CRACKLE IS A PET PIG WHO PREFERS LIVING INSIDE THEHOUSE RATHER THAN IN HER PEN OUTSIDE.That is until one Christmas, she does something terrible.Immediately she is banished outside to her pig pen with the threat of NO Christmas presents from Santa.Then two little boys organise a clever surprise for Crackle.Will she be forgiven?"A sweet story of forgiveness during Christmas and what being loved is all about..." Amanda, IndieBook Reviewer

1936Germany gained the right to conduct the 1936 Olympics, though many countries were uneasy about giving the games to the country they had seen plunge the world into war. Several nations threatened boycotts, not only because of the Great War but the more recent persecution of the Roma and Sinti people and the new doctrine of racial purity.Robert O'Calahan's selection as an Australian Olympic Team doctor leads his life to unexpected change as he is drawn into long hidden family secrets to the Roma and Sinti coalition in Australia of which he had no knowledge.Robert and a number of operatives, strive to contact German "Gypsies" and other dissidents to gain any proof of the atrocities committed by the Germans during the last decades but are soon confronted by the developing evil rising almost unstopped across Europe.The deadly game of cat and mouse ensues and sees members of the Olympic team in dangerous life-threatening situations and even the killing of several people who are surreptitiously trying to stop the heartless Nazi German master race."An exciting and confronting thriller by a new talent in Australian historical writing. Edge of the seat enjoyment..." Harold, IndieBook Reviewer