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He's in the same spot on Bourke Street every day, down the hill from Parliament House. He arrives in the early morning gloom and stays until dusk. He settles his wiry frame on an upturned milk crate or sits on folded cardboard on the footpath. He leans back on the wall where an unoccupied warehouse meets a bookshop. Bourke Street's elegant plane trees shadow him from the morning sun and drip on his umbrella when it rains. Hundreds greet him. He shares a word and a smile with many. No-one knows much about him. His name is Tony Brooks. Everyone has a story. is is his, and it's not what you might think.

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'Everyday in our cities we walk past numberless stories without knowing it. With time, patience and sympathy, Jen Hutchison has listened to one such story, and it's well worth your whole attention.' -- Gideon Haigh

'Everyday in our cities we walk past numberless stories without knowing it. With time, patience and sympathy, Jen Hutchison has listened to one such story, and it's well worth your whole attention.' -- Gideon Haigh

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Jen Hutchison is a mature age writer, and now publisher who waited through a corporate career before concentrating on her life force - her writing. Jen is articulate with a sunny and engaging temperament. She unbundles and re-threads a kaleidoscope of her life's adventures and dramas into her writing and in her public speaking. She has published two books - Motherling, a memoir released in May 2019, featured in the Australian Women's Weekly in September 2019, and by Myf Warhurst on ABC Radio. This one, Bourke Street, My View from Here, is an absorbing in-conversation with Tony Brooks. In addition, Journeys to Words Publishing released High Infidelity, a romantic novel by Queensland author Shelley Davidow, in July 2019. Half a dozen enthralling books are scheduled for 2020. Jen has shut the lid on a successful corporate career in operational and board roles in private and public enterprises, and is well into her new life in un-retirement. Journeys to Words Publishing was established in 2018. This new publishing imprint is focusing exclusively on the work of mature-age writers. Jen has found her tribe and spends her days talking to readers about books, booksellers about books, and writers about readers and books. When she's not writing and publishing, Jen is part of the RMIT Master of Writing and Publishing. Jen loves swimming, long distance walking, and skis in Japan every northern winter.

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