Michael Winkler

Meet Jeffrey Watson-Johnson: hydrologist, husband of Martine, father of Bern, model citizen of Mildura. But after he inherits a small fortune from an obscure aunt and has a disconcerting encounter with his cousin Pam, Jeffrey decides it’s time to change everything. He tells Martine he wants to live as if he were the family pet. Sleeping through the day or...

Pain was Joe Grim's self-expression, his livelihood and reason for being. In 1908-09, the Italian-American boxer toured Australia, losing fights but amazing crowds with his showmanship and extraordinary physical resilience. On the east coast, Grim played a supporting role in the Jack Johnson-Tommy Burns 'Fight of the Century'; on the west coast, he was committed to an insane asylum. In...

Friedrich Froebel, the ‘father of kindergarten’, is one of the most influential pedagogues of the 19th century. However, relatively little is known about his life, his successes and failures, and his personal relationships. Based on many untranslated and unknown letters, this new biography presents Froebel as a brilliant but also flawed man. Beginning with his childhood and the early death...