Beauty & Wellbeing

Everyone has a story...

Astory filled with loss and adventure. A rollicking tale of achievements, struggles, low points and highlights that combine to shape a person’s true history.

It is a history that is priceless to family and friends, and one that Noosa biographer Michael Taylor wants to document.

Mr Taylor specialises in helping people write their life story, collating all the memories, pictures, diary entries, clippings and anecdotes into “one big, beautiful, flowing narrative”.

“Noosa is full of untold stories – of ordinary people whose lives deserve to be told,” he said.

“Unfortunately, many of these stories, in their entirety, go untold and are lost forever.”

Mr Taylor has written of the Triad-busting barrister – a Cooroy resident who has been prosecuting cases in Hong Kong for 30 years and continues to do so, although aged in his 70s.

And 92-year-old Margaret now has her life story published online telling of how she met her future husband when she was seven years old.

He was 24 and heading overseas to face four years as a prisoner of war.

His most recently published hardcover book is of a three-generation family business that began with a non-English-speaking migrant in the 1950s.

These stories all recognise and celebrate full lives rich with experiences and give the tellers an opportunity not only to tell their tale but to achieve immortality (in a literary sense).

Mr Taylor said the option of online publishing was simple and cheap to “reach a worldwide audience or just a cousin in Perth”, but hard copies could also be done.

“I involve professional proofreaders, cover designers and online formatters to achieve the most creative and professional outcome.”

In his own memoir, Number 41, Mr Taylor says: “The day will surely come when I am a dribbling old man with no hair, few teeth and pee stains on my baggy shorts, sitting under a shady tree, my watery eyes staring into the distance. When that day comes and I hear my grandchildren’s friends whisper, “Who is that old guy?” I will hand them a copy of this book.”