Mike Colman

Few if any Australian journalists have mastered the art of long-form sports writing better than Mike Colman. Trent Dalton, author of the mega-seller Boy Swallows Universe, knows this too well, having worked alongside Colman for years at the Brisbane Courier-Mail. Dalton jumped at the chance to introduce this book, because he knows the rare quality of his friend's work. Colman...

For several years, the Courier-Mail featured a special Anzac day story by their Walkley Award-winning journalist, Mike Colman. In The Man Next Door, Colman's superb writing about war—focusing on the men and women who saw the frontline and their loved ones back home—is brought together in one volume. The book opens with a never-before-told story, shocking but inspiring, of Ray...