Phil Brown

From the author of Travels with My Angst and Any Guru Will Do, a vivid, nostalgic, and funny memoir of growing up in Hong Kong in the 1960s. Phil Brown's life begins in small-town Australia - Maitland, NSW to be precise - but in 1963 his father, Ted, hankers to return to the Hong Kong of his childhood and to...

'What a life. What a book. When it's not making your ribs rattle with laughter, it's making your heart ache with all the pathos and poetry. A memory box of jewels from a true Brisbane treasure.' Trent Dalton Hilarious, heartfelt and revealing. Phil Brown tells all (well almost all) in this rollicking account of his career in literature and journalism...