Lindsay Barrett

A group of aimless young blokes from the suburbs of Sydney go troppo in 1980s North Queensland, as all around them, men fuelled by the resources boom tear up the landscape with abandon. If Jack Kerouac had been Australian, he might have come up with something like North, a tale of Australian masculinity searching for itself, while learning that we...

In the late 1930s, an apprentice potter made a solemn pledge with some of his young workmates to meet up on New Year's Day, in the year 2000, in the famous Long Bar of the Hotel Australia. However, the reunion never took place because, while sixty years later the young man in question, the author's father, was still going strong,...