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Curious books for clever people

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Bad Pug Publishing is a small independent Australian publishing business creating and supporting distinctive fiction and non-fiction for niche audiences, especially audiology, allied health, medical, and healthcare-adjacent readers.

​Our debut title is
Audiologist Wow! by Kevin Sanders Kettletown.

“Maybe I’ll write a novel, I thought.
And then I did.”
- Henry Chinaski
Charles Bukowski, Post Office


THE KENNEL

Who we are. What we do. What we read.
Keith Chittleborough, editor-in-chief of Bad Pug Publishing

Keith Chittleborough

Editor-in-chief

Favourite author: Terry Pratchett
Favourite poet: T. S. Elliot
Top five* books: 1984,
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Catch 22, Fahrenheit 451, On the Beach, Slaughterhouse 5
Hidden gem: A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L Peck

"The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again."
-Philip Roth, American Pastoral


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Elise Turner, project manager of Bad Pug Publishing

Elise Turner

Project Manager

Favourite author: Roald Dahl
​Favourite poet: Charles Bukowski
Top five* books: Pride and Prejudice, Flowers for Algernon, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 
The BFG, The Road, The Broken Shore
Hidden gem: Pig by Kenneth Cook

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
-Antoine de Saint-Exup
éry, The Little Prince
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*Five on these lists is never enough! - Ed.
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