Bøger af Tom Thompson

The first booklet published following the death of Phar Lap, the greatest of all Race Horses, is once again in print; this time augmented by a great selection of 'Big Red' Memorabilia, compiled by Tom Thompson from the auctions of jockeys Jim Pike, Billy Elliott and strapper Tommy Woodcock. With race day programs and souvenirs from his Melbourne Cup and Agua Calient triumphs, here is a fine reminder of the Wonder-Horse!

"Waking up in the middle of the first night of the greatest concert he had ever imagined, the young tripping sojourner thought he'd heard a scream in the night. Not wanting to come back to reality so soon, but more afraid to hide from the truth, he crossed through the barbwire and into the forbidding corn." Tom Thompson's carefree character is thrown into legendary cultural moments that rocked the world. An eccentric tale about a hitchhiking trip to Woodstock's music festival back in 1969, a cold case from that flower-power generation, and a rundown detective dealing with his counter-culture childhood as he works to solve a murder that many want to forget. The unusual events recapture the thrills of the 60s blissed-out youth and come together in a mesmerizing story that contains a thousand different clues to what actually went down on the farm, as the times are a changing faster than the speed of light.

The vision struck like a bolt of lighting. Tom Thompson had to pull off the highway to avoid an accident.His vision: an isolated rural farm where addicts could come and escape their lives, break free of addiction, and walk with God. They would learn to be sober and live out the scriptures in their daily lives.It was a vision from God--but merely a vision. Tom made it his life's work to make the vision a reality. In 1999, he founded the Refuge Ministries to help addicts get clean and sober by identifying and addressing the spiritual brokenness that underlies their addiction. The ministry applies a faith-based approach to treating addiction.And it worked. To date, the Refuge has helped well over 2,500 men shuck off the shackles of addiction and transform into better citizens, sons, husbands, and fathers.The Refuge has grown thanks to the service of others. Founder and Executive Director Tom Thompson is now growing the ministry beyond its own confines by helping other leaders of service establish similar ministries and organizations. The Refuge is the prototype for a new "out-of-the-box" model for treating addiction.A PLACE OF REFUGE is more than just a blueprint for a new addiction treatment model. It is also a treatise for finding your own "calling" and serving God and your fellow man.

Thompson's city is Sydney, and perhaps the most impressive feature of his writing is the way the physical reality of the city is caught throughout the prose, and the power with which Thompson draws the skin of human relationships over this brutal and jagged landscape that cuts and moulds them. - Neil Armfield, ABC RadioThompson's prose is fast and sharp and he creates in these episodes an extraordinary feeling of the city and its people as somehow integrated in the one sliding, crumbling disintegrating world. Neon Line is a disturbing vision of today's young urban culture. - Nation ReviewThe outstanding success of Neon Line, to my mind, is Thompson's portrayal of Marlene, where he has captured through the voice of the woman herself, a tortured, lonely, and utterly persuasive individual, an achievement which is apparently rare in male-written fiction. - Australian Book Review

From life in small New South Wales country towns to the glitter of Sydney, this memoir explores life in a changing Australia, from age 7 to 17. Especially written and recorded for ABC radio, this book evokes an innocent Australia through a quietly comic delivery, where we witness again holidays in quiet seaside villages, the days when newspapers were king, Decimal Currency Day was a big thing and Beatles haircuts were all the rage. When teenagers were inspired by pop music to a fresh idealism, protest and groovy gear. When man walked on the moon. A journey through the drama and excitement of an Australia now known only by memory. This is the first publication of Growing Up in the 60s as broadcast on ABC's Nightlife several times, and on many ABC regional stations including Broken Hill, Wagga Wagga, Camberra, Upper Hunter, Tamworth and Darwin. If you remember UV lights, if you loved Easy Rider, if you still know the words to Norwegian Wood and once had a poster of Che Guevara on your bedroom wall - in other words, if you grew up in Australia in the 1960s - you will get a lot of fun with Tom Thompson's book. It is funny and astute and wonderfully nostalgic.- Jane Cadzow, The Australian