Entertainment
1 June, 2025
Author’s stories of amazing comebacks
TRINITY Beach author and illustrator Andrew Matthews is back with a bounce, his 12th book 'Bouncing Back' – an illustrated guide to more resilience in the face of challenges – is now available at Cairns bookstores.
Having sold more than eight million copies around the world and published 12 books so far, the internationally renowned local author and illustrator is back with an anthology of real-life stories of people who turned their setbacks into comebacks.
The stories are accompanied by his classic 90s style cartoons to make for an entertaining and lighthearted reading that he hopes will inspire readers.
“We’re all bouncing back from something, we’re bouncing back from spending too much, eating too much, or we’re bouncing back from a relationship that isn’t going too well, we’re bouncing back from having lost a job or missing out on a promotion,” he said.
“So Bouncing Back is about the things that resilient people do, so the book tells you that people who bounce back tend to accept their situation early on and I wouldn’t have chosen to be in this situation, but this is what I’ve got and now I move on to what I want.
“Acceptance of our situation is power and it’s the first step to being happier and it’s a demonstration of resilience and from there we bite off our problems one chunk at a time.
“Also resilient people tend to have a picture of a better life in their mind.”
Mr Matthews says he expects the book brings hope to people who are struggling.
“I write self-help books for people who don’t like self-help books,” he said.
“I want people to take away hope from this book, this is a book about hope, wherever we are life can be better if we do some simple things that anyone can do."
The book is available at the Crystal Ball Bookstore, Cairns Books at Cairns Central Shopping Centre or from Amazon.
