My publications for adults include:
STRANGERS [a novel] 2000
Stone's Publishing, Australia
SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD [a collection of stories] 2000
Stone's Publishing, Australia
Shortlisted for the WA Premier's Award
HAPPY FAMILIES [a novel] 1985
Macmillan, UK
Futura, UK
LIFE SENTENCE [a collection of short stories] 1984
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Australia
Sinclair Browne, UK
Macdonald, UK
Futura, UK
Shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award, Australia
The Weekend Australian Critics' Choice of the Year's Best Books
THE REBELS AND THE HOSTAGE [a novel] 1978
Journeyman Press, UK
Winner of the UK North West Arts Award
THE WORST OF TIMES [an oral history of the Depression in
the UK – pref: Richard Hoggart] 1986
Wildwood House, UK
Gower Press, UK
Barnes & Noble, USA
WRITERS TALKING [interviews with: Brian Aldiss, Paul Bailey,
John Berger, Malcolm Bradbury, Dick Davis, John Fowles, Barry Hines, Donall
Mac Amhlaigh, Roger McGough, Peter Vansittart]
Caliban Press, UK 1989
THE SILENT MAJORITY [a study of the working-class in post-war
British literature] 1973
Vision Press, UK
Barnes & Noble, USA
COME CLOSE [poems - with lino-cuts by Ken Sprague] 1978
Journeyman Press, UK
Bookmarx Bookclub, UK
PHOENIX COUNTRY [editor - an anthology of prose, poems and
pictures about the American War in Viet Nam]
Journeyman Press, UK 1980
BATTLERS IN THE SAND [an oral history of the settlers of
the Foothills area of Kalamunda Shire]
Held in bound manuscript form in The Battye Library, Perth, and the libraries
of Kalamunda Shire
Also several early slim volumes of verse, best forgotten, and a verse translation of Chaucer's The Miller's Tale
I have had two plays produced on radio, and one on stage. I have written two movie screenplays which, though taken up by production companies, failed to find financial backing. I have had many poems and stories published in magazines and anthologies and broadcast on radio and television in a number of countries.
I have won The Dickens' Fellowship Award, and The Irish Post Award for Literature.
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