Justin Sheedy's Blog - Posts Tagged "christmas"

Fresh from his Remembrance Day weekend SELL-OUT book-signing event at Dymocks George Street Sydney – FULL STORY & PHOTO-SHOOT AT THE LINK BELOW, author Justin Sheedy will now be signing copies of his latest book Nor the Years Condemn at Dymocks Macquarie Centre on Saturday 8 December and at Dymocks North Sydney (a triumphant return visit!) on Friday 21 December – the final full shopping day before Christmas.
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On Remembrance Day weekend, the timing was perfect for Sheedy’s in-store event at Dymocks George Street as the symbol of Remembrance Day, the Red Poppy, is also the symbol of Sheedy’s book (pictured), which has just been accepted by The Australian War Memorial. Sheedy now looks forward to sharing with Dymocks Macquarie & North Sydney customers his passion for the great Australian true story on which Nor the Years Condemn is based: the stunning saga of the young Australians who crossed the planet to fly Spitfires against Nazi Germany in World War II.

Sales of the book certainly seem to have been swelled by Sheedy’s recent interview on the John Laws Show, with so many book-lovers engaged by the prospect of reading an Australian story of ‘Gallipoli’ magnitude yet, until now, unknown by most Australians… At Gallipoli in 1915 Australia discovered its ‘national identity’ – a breed of young people looking after each other in the midst of the worst situation imaginable, a heroic defeat. Nor the Years Condemn tells a story in this very same ANZAC nation-defining tradition yet, by contrast to the Gallipoli story, not one of heroic defeat but of stunning victory, albeit at tragic cost, of how the best & brightest of an Australian generation ironically chose one of the fastest ways to die of World War II – and won it.

A truly ‘ripping yarn’ of (very) young men flying Spitfires into air combat, Nor the Years Condemn is also ‘a mothers’ story’, as for every shining young man who flew a Spitfire, there was also a mother cursed to relinquish her wonderful young son to war, just one factor that renders Sheedy’s story such a heart-rending read.

To Sheedy’s avowed relief, this, his second book, has received since publication in early 2012 the kind of reviews he long dreamed of yet never expected. To read them, CLICK THE LINK.
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Sheedy is very much looking forward to signing copies of Nor the Years Condemn for customers of Dymocks Macquarie Centre on Saturday 8 December as well as at Dymocks North Sydney on Friday 21 December. See DYMOCKS EVENTS for further details or CLICK THE LINK:
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Nor the Years Condemn is currently available at Dymocks George Street Sydney, Dymocks Macquarie Centre, Dymocks North Sydney, also Chatswood, Rouse Hill and Camberwell (VIC) stores, through Dymocks Online, also as a print-on-demand paperback at AMAZON, as an e-book at SMASHWORDS and at all major e-book websites, and at The Australian War Memorial. For reading excerpts of the book, CLICK THE LINK.
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A decent year, 2017... Have just begun my next (7th) book, "Ghosts of the Future". My latest, "No Greater Love" achieved best-seller status and am looking forward to 6 end-of-year bookstore signing events: Dymocks Sydney Sat Nov 11 & 16, Dymocks Chatswood Sat Dec 2, Dymocks Macquarie Sat Dec 9, Dymocks Sydney Dec Sat 16, Dymocks Broadway Sat Dec 23.

It’s with relief that I report my first two end-of-year book-signings last week were both sell-out events. As per the smile on my ugly mug in the below pic, two sell-outs in one week at Australia’s premier bookstore, Dymocks George Street Sydney! And I have 4 more coming up: Every Saturday in December at Dymocks stores around Sydney so if you’re looking for some fab Christmas presents I would love to sign you a copy of my latest book, “No Greater Love” or one of my other titles. Of course if you can’t make a Sydney signing, all my books are available for you via Amazon and on request (via the Contact page of my website, JustinSheedy.com) I can email you a hand-signed dedication for you print & paste inside the front cover of any one of my books.

Fab Christmas presents? Don’t take my word for it, please see fab reader reviews of my books at JustinSheedy.com . And a personal Christmas dedication signed by me to your nearest & dearest always makes for a rather special Christmas present. My upcoming signing dates as follows: Dymocks Chatswood Sat 2 Dec, Dymocks Macquarie Sat 9 Dec, Dymocks Sydney Sat 16 Dec, Dymocks Broadway Sat 23 Dec. I look forward to meeting you at one or to sending you a personalised dedication for your Amazon copy.

Merry Christmas
Justin Sheedy