David Price

Dark Tales from the Long River offers a window into an evolving history of Western Australia that is still struggling into the light. From searches for serial killers and missing persons to the persecution of migrants and Aboriginal people, David Price takes us back to a time when the line between lawmakers and criminals was lightly drawn. Based on a...

The Shameful Isles is a unique resource on north-west Australia's fatal experiment with medical apartheid. In 1907, the Western Australian government began a programme of forcibly removing supposedly ill Aboriginal people to purpose-built lock hospitals on Bernier and Dorre Islands, off the coast of Carnarvon. There, they were trapped against their will and exposed to experimental drugs and procedures. Many...

In April 2018 David Price, dedicated aviation museum volunteer and author of THE CREW and MOSQUITO MEN, decided to build a Spitfire replica in his back garden. In How to Build a Spitfire he juxtaposes the story of the ups and down of his own ambitious project to recreate an icon of British aviation with a narrative of the development...

Nicknamed The ‘Wooden Wonder’ for its timber frame and superb performance, the de Havilland Mosquito ranks alongside the Spitfire, the Hurricane, and the Lancaster as one of the RAF’s greatest-ever flying machines. Novel in design, operationally flexible, and exceptionally fast, it inflicted mayhem on the German war machine as night-fighter, fighter-bomber, and pathfinder. Mosquito Men traces the contrasting careers of...