Andrew Kepitis Andrews: 7 books

The life and times of a WWII refugee Vol 2: settling in Australia and late in life, still battling many local wars. Having overcome many battles but succumbed to a few, the main battle of life continues. It’s neither easy or hard, it’s life but bearing one thing in mind. As an old philosopher...

Light reading of the humorous doings of patrons and barflies in an Australian suburban pub.Narrated by a New Australian as he sees it and in his odd way of using the English language.Entertaining. Set in Sydney's Newtown area during the late fifties and early sixties.Larger than life characters. Most yarns have an unexpected twist in the ending.

Every pub in the world is a repository for a rich tapestry of yarns, some true, others fictitious. "Easy Does It" is the second collection of quirky tales from the King's Head in Newtown, narrated by the pub's resident bookie, Egils, who doubles up as a chook-raffler to deflect police attention....

Sandy Cook, Sam Rivero and Jeb Rockford are working for a large American corporation as metallurgists and prospectors, gathering and analysing South Africa's soil components for mineral traces.Almost by accident, Sandy overturns a large boulder, revealing a large diamond pipe. The Boer War had...

Autobiography and a social document of a post WW2 life. The author, first a refugee, then a migrant had many unique careers in Australia and overseas and experienced both humorous and tragic situations. Born the son of a Latvian professor and composer of classical music, the author last saw his father...

Born the son of a coal miner, Alfred Todd soon learns from his father that "honesty is best policy" fits only the poor, the weak and the stupid."Everybody cheats," he tells his son, "the milkman when he waters down your milk before he delivers it. The grocer when he puts his thumb on the scale as...

Karl Braun was well off as it was, but then—through almost unbelievable circumstances—a vast sum of money drops into his lap. He wants to put the money to good use and change things for the better, yet discovers that most folk welcome an injection of money but not the changes. In the end, there’s...