GLENN MARTIN

A new family history book is available, in both paperback and ebok versions: The Sailor, The Baron And The Dressmaker. In July 1939 a German sailor, newly arrived in Australia, met and married one of my father’s cousins, in less than six weeks. See the Family History page for more about the book.

The book release was held on 30 November 2024 at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts in Sydney. It was an enjoyable event. Thanks to all those who came and who offered support.

My previous book, in early 2024, was Library Meets Book Fair. Read more.

Glenn also released a book in October 2023, called Travel with a Pen. He travelled to Tasmania to graduate from his Diploma of Family History course, and to travel to Oatlands, where his great great grandmother (Sarah Crosby) lived briefly in 1850, working as a servant at an inn, the Wilmott Arms. The trip was interesting. Did Glenn just make his debut as a travel writer?

See the “Reflections on Experience” page for more information. This book is available for purchase on the Lulu website.

In February 2023 Glenn published Long Time Approaching: An Incomplete Memoir. See the “Reflections on Experience” page for more information.

Profile

Glenn Martin is a writer and sometime-poet, with over twenty books on a variety of topics, and including several books of poetry. He wrote his first book in 1988: Places in the Bush, a history of Kyogle, the town where he lived in northern New South Wales. He also wrote a history of the Kyogle Public School in 1995. Both books were well-received in the local community.

Since coming back to Sydney, Glenn has written several books on ethics, the most recent being A Foundation for Living Ethically. These books are about how you, as an ordinary person in the world, can live ethically. It involves a framework of five core human values.

Glenn has written several books that he calls “Reflections on Experience”. They draw on his experiences in work and living, and offer what he hopes is a coherent and hopeful perspective.

There are several volumes of poetry. These collections occur at long intervals, because it is another way of seeing, and not all of life can be expressed in logical propositions.

Family history is another stream of books. Glenn thought he came from an ordinary family. What he has learned from the hundreds of people he has discovered is that there is probably no such thinig as an ordinary family.

There is one book that needed a new category – the “Big Picture”. Called FUTURE, Glenn describes it as a series of meditations on looking backwards at human history, and forwards at what we need to become, personally and collectively.

The video below shows all the books Glenn has written (well, up to 2022).