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Philip J Bradbury

Brisbane, Australia

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An author of 18 books (to date), I love passing it forward and helping others find their words and have them land on the blank page!

I was born early in my life and, since then, have been an avid student of life and all who sail in her. I started with some business qualifications:

Bachelor of Business Studies
Associate Chartered Accountant
Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries
Associate of the Institute of Managers
Then some teaching qualifications:

Certificate in Adult Teaching
Certificate in Adult Education
Certificate IV in Teaching and Assessment
Then some personal/spiritual development inquiry, including:

Counselling training as a hospice volunteer
Grief Counselling
Breakthrough program
Landmark Forum
Transactional Analysis
A Course in Miracles
And time with indigenous elders:

A Hopi Elder from Sedona
A Sangorna in South Africa
Several Kaumatua in New Zealand
An Aboriginal elder near Alice Springs
I was in the Guinness Book of Records as the shyest person on the planet and, at 40 years old, decided to expunge that huge fear of people from my life. I didn’t need to be limited by it any more. I went to the local polytechnic and asked if they needed an accounting teacher. I was already terrified, fronting up to strangers, and the receptionist laughed at me. I shrivelled up and turned around to slither out.

“No, no sir, I wasn’t laughing at you,” she assured me. “It was just that our accounting teacher was fired yesterday and I was just placing an advert in the paper for a replacement.”

The Academic Director happened to be passing at that moment and he invited me into his office for a little chat. A week later I was teaching, with no training or supervision. I was petrified for the next six months but was determined to dissolve this oppressive shyness. It finally went and I have been teaching accounting and business subjects in New Zealand, Australia and England at polytechnics, universities and as a corporate trainer and business coach.

I also ran my own personal development course – Free To Be Me – in New Zealand, South Africa and Australia and it took me some time to realise that I learn most when I’m teaching.

Around my 40th year, also, I started publishing other people’s books and then writing and publishing my own. A number of my original books were published, sold and never heard of again. Therefore, the ones here are not all that I have written but they are the ones I am most proud of.

I know you’ll enjoy them … all of them!

Philip's Latest Update

almost 7 years ago

Turning strangers into friends by sharing secrets - that's alchemy!

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My Sister, My Own

Philip J Bradbury Crime Fiction

She threw away the best friend she could have - her sister - and then lost the man of her dreams as he was forced to dig his own grave. Lost in guilt and regret, she ran from the best things she could ...

Writing Philip has Shared on Tablo

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My Sister, My Own

Philip J Bradbury Crime Fiction

She threw away the best friend she could have - her sister - and then lost the man of her dreams as he was forced to dig his own grave. Lost in guilt and regret, she ran from the best things she could ...

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The Last Stand Down

Philip J Bradbury Fiction

Arthur, bored with his London insurance job and his marriage, dreaming of high and dangerous adventures. He arrives at work to find he is being stood down under suspicious circumstances and is soon embroiled in a scandal involving British police, ...

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Scars Don't Sweat

Philip J Bradbury Fiction

The bodies are found and everyone knows the culprit and the reason ... except they're all suspecting each other for all the wrong reasons. And even the police cannot be trusted to get it right ...

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Circles of Gold - a fable

Philip J Bradbury Fiction

He was born with a defect he could not change. He was different and could never be like other boys, other men, other people. His disfigurement eventually drove him from his family, from the village and out into the world as a troubadour, a teller-...

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Wrong Time, Wrong Place

PJ Bradbury Thrillers

What if you’re accused of a crime you didn’t commit, in a town that’s not listening ... and the ex you never want to see again is your only chance of escape?

Philip's Reading & Writing Communities

Short Stories & Flash Fiction

 
Short stories flash fiction

Crime

 
Crime fiction
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