What an amazing month! This month 'The Red Devil: The story of South Australian #Aviation #Pioneer' was launched at the #Minlaton Town Hall, with 350 attending (officially launched by Professor Peter Monteath). Les and I gave a presentation on #HarryButler, with audience members including SA Governor Hieu Van Le and state and federal MPs, Fraser Ellis and Rowan Ramsey. Also launched was a children's book about Harry Butler ('Born to Fly' by Bev Williams, beautifully illustrat

Back on the 23rd May, the #Melbourne launch of #TheSecretArtofPoisoning was supported by #SistersinCrime Australia with #crimewriter #DrLucySussex the launcher, and was held at #ReadingsStKilda and went very well. The book is now available in a number of Melbourne bookshops including Dymocks (Collins St & Richmond), Readings St Kilda, Avenue Bookstore Richmond, the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and the #OldMelbourneGaol. #MarthaNeedle is one subject for the current #

The month of May has been busy! I've been doing a few radio interviews lately, speaking with Jules Schiller’s on his ABC Adelaide 891 Drive show about #TheSecretArtofPoisoning book on 8/5, as well as with Tim Ross on Myf Warhurst's ABC Melbourne show on 17/5 and to Lucille Hughes on 96.5 'Readings and Writings' show today (22/5) on InnerFM Melbourne. Les Parsons and I also spoke at the Adelaide Airmail Society 1/5 during the SA History Festival on Narelle Graham’s ABC Statewi

Back in May 2018, Les Parsons and I spoke to the guys at #TheAdelaideShow podcast about our upcoming book #TheRedDevil on #pioneeraviator #CaptainHarryButler Congratulations to The Adelaide Show podcast crew who were finalists in the Australian Podcast Awards this year! At the end of the show, we also had a 'aviation quiz' and found out something rather astonishing about #earlyaviation! We are looking forward to the launch of the book next year at the 100th anniversary of #Ha

Welcome to my #newwebsite which I have established in the lead up to the publication of two non-fiction historical books I have been working on: #TheSecretArtofPoisoning and #TheRedDevil (with Les Parsons). These are very different tales: one about an anti-heroine from the #19thCentury and one about a #heroic #PioneerAviator from the #WW1 era. I came to the first book to be published via the second. When researching pioneer aviator #HarryButler, I came across a tragic #truecr