Some books to buy for Christmas 2024 and New Year 2025 – in print and online

Ross Fitzgerald’s latest books published by Hybrid in Melbourne and available online, are a memoir Fifty Years Sober: An Alcoholic’s Journey and the Grafton Everest adventures The Ascent of Everest, in which American president Donald Thump and Russia’s Vladimir Putrid are both assassinated

The Ascent of Everest is a boxed set of four coauthored Australian political satires comprising Going Out Backwards, The Dizzying Heights The Lowest Depths and Pandemonium.

All these adventures of the corpulent, teetotal Dr Professor Grafton Everest are coauthored by Ross Fitzgeralds and Ian McFadyen of ‘Comedy Company’ fame.

Pandemonium is currently entered for the 2025 Russell Prize for Humour Writing in Australia.

2. Ross Fitzgerald’s latest books published by Connor Court in Brisbane and available online, are the coedited collections MY LAST DRINK and HEARTFELT MOMENTS IN AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL.

Ross Fitzgerald and Neal Price are contributing editors of MY LAST DRINK: 32 stories of recovering alcoholics.

This anthology of short essays documents how a variety of alcoholics throughout Australia have managed to achieve, and maintain, sobriety through the agency of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Ross Fitzgerald and Richard Whitaker are contributing editors of HEARTFELT MOMENTS in AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL.

HEARTFELT MOMENTS is a anthology of 37 original essays about the VFL and AFL written by supporters, administrators, and current or past players of Aussie Rules.

All books mentioned above are available in print and online from Hybrid Publishing in Melbourne and Connor Court in Brisbane.