These are some of My Books:

DOING TIME, Stories of Convict Clock and Watchmakers in Van Diemen’s Land (2023), $30.

MARVELS OF THE CATARACT, Duck Reach And Launceston’s Electric Light (2022), $40.

HOLYMAN’S OF BASS STRAIT: Shipping and Aviation Pioneers of Australia (2021), Sold Out.

HOME OF PEACE, The Eskleigh Story (2018), $25.​

THE TAMAR YACHT CLUB: A History of Sailing in Launceston Tasmania from 1837 (2017), $45.

A WOMAN OF CHARITY: The Winifred Daphne Booth Story (2017), $25.

DUCK REACH AND LAUNCESTON’S ELECTRIC LIGHT (2016), Out Of Print.

WILLIAM GOW’S ANZAC DIARY: Serving with the 3rd Field Ambulance at Gallipoli (2014), $25.

THE OUTCOME of ENTERPRISE: Launceston’s Waverley Woollen Mills (2009), $25.

CRUEL WIND: Business Post Naiad and the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race Disaster, with Robert Matthews (2009), $30.

THE AUSTRALIAN THREE PEAKS RACE – The First 20 Years, with Paul Scambler. Sold Out.

WRITING

2023 — Author and publisher of Doing Time, Stories of Convict Clock and Watchmakers in Van Diemen’s Land

2022 — Author and editor of Marvels of the Cataract, Duck Reach and Launceston’s Electric Light

2021 — Writer and editor of Holyman’s of Bass Strait

2020 — Contributing writer Launceston and its environs: a Sound History

2018 — Author of Home of Peace, The Eskleigh Story (published by the Eskleigh Foundation)

2018 — Contributing writer The Kaleidoscope of Launceston: Shedding More Light On The Fabric.  

2017 — Contributing writer Scotch College Preparatory School, St George’s  Square,1937-1960

2017 — History of Sailing in Launceston Tasmania 1837 to 2017 (published by C. Gus Green OAM)

2017 — Author of A Woman of Charity (published by the WD Booth CharitableTrust)

2016 — Contributing writer The Fabric of Launceston: A Collaborative Community History 

2016 — Author of Duck Reach and Launceston’s Electric Light (published by C. Gus Green OAM)

2014 — Author of William Gow’s Anzac Diary (published byLaunceston Legacy)

2013 — Contributing writer Launceston General Hospital: Celebrating 150 Years of Caring

2011 – Author of His Own Man, the Story of Cecil Burgess (self-published family history)

2009 – Author of The Outcome of Enterprise: Launceston’s Waverley Woollen Mills (published by Friends of the Launceston Library)

2009 – Co-Author with Robert Matthews of Cruel Wind: A Tasmanian story of the disastrous 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race (Foot and Playsted)

2008 – Author 20 Years of the Australian Three Peaks Race (published by the Australian Three Peaks organising committee)

2007 – Edited One Man’s Journey, the story of Ken Gourlay’s solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the world (published by Ken Gourlay)

2000 – Edited Buying and Selling Real Estate in Australia (Michael Dean Publishing)

WORK

2016 – Current: Freelance author and editor.

2014 – 2016: Media and Electorate Officer for Federal MP.

2006 – 2014: Associate Editor and inaugural Online Editor, The Examiner Newspaper.

2006 – 2004: Tasmanian Circulation Manager, Rural Press.

2004 – 2002: Newspaper Sales Manager, The Examiner Newspaper.

2001: Managing Editor of Independent Publishers Tasmania.

2001 – 1999: Promotions and Internet Services Manager, The Examiner Newspaper.

1999 – 1997: Editorial and Internet Services Manager, and deputy editor, The Examiner Newspaper.

1997 – 1994: Day News Editor, and deputy editor, The Examiner Newspaper.

1992 – 1994: Chief of Staff, The Examiner Newspaper.

1984 – 1992: Journalist, Sub-Editor, Chief Sub-Editor, The Examiner Newspaper

1969 – 1984: Copy Holder, Proof Reader, Compositor, The Examiner Newspaper

EDUCATION

Rowella Area School

West Launceston Primary School

Scotch College, Launceston

Launceston Technical School

1995: Monash Mt Eliza Business School, Manager Development Program

1998: System Management and Trainer Course, Cybergraphics newspaper production systems.