Peter Grose

Grose's compassionate, honest and vivid account deserves to be widely read. Sun Herald on An Awkward Truth About as good as any yarn can get . . . a great retelling of a great story. Sydney Morning Herald on A Very Rude Awakening Originally published as the best-selling An Awkward Truth and A Very Rude Awakening The bombing of Darwin...

Peter Grose has a natural ability to tell a good yarn and the story of the Japanese subs that slid into Sydney Harbour in 1942 is about as good as any Aussie yarn can get... a great retelling of a great story.The Sydney Morning Herald On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney was doing what it does best: partying....

From the grim docks of nineteenth-century London to the even grimmer shores of the brutal penal colony of Norfolk Island, this is a roller-coaster tale. It has everything: defiance of authority, treachery, piracy and mutiny, escape from the hangman's noose, and even love. Peopled with good men, buffoons, incompetents, and larrikin convicts of the highest order, Ten Rogues is an...

Grose's compassionate, honest and vivid account deserves to be widely read. -Sun-Herald The bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942 is the battle Australia tries to forget. Although there was much to be proud of that day - courage, mateship, determination and improvisation - the dark side of the story lingers: looting, desertion and a calamitous failure of Australian leadership....