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But in 1915, a passage in the bible inspired the devout scout leader and Sunday school teacher to enlist. Soon his abilities as a crack marksman attracted the attention of the officers and he was put in charge of Sniper Ridge, his job to eliminate the enemy assassins in Anzac Cove. Savige succeeded and survived Gallipoli, only to be sent to the Western Front then Iran as part of the crack squad Dunsterforce. It was the beginning of a long, dangerous and distinguished military career spanning both world wars, with Savige commanding and fighting in Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific in World War II, initially as Major-General then Lieutenant General. In this gripping biography, Roland Perry paints a fascinating and complex portrait of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, KBE, CB, DSO, MC, ED, a man of character and compassion, a quiet outsider who founded the war veterans' support charity Legacy, who still has few peers in courage, skill and achievement and whose record is second to none in Australian military history, in the scope of his combat over two world wars. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/boldwarnie daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630986401672-UP0MZMYN4ZQ2ADBYTY8M/vold-warnie.jpg Bold Warnie - Bold Warnie Roland Perry recounts the incredible career of Shane Warne, and Australia's Rise to Cricket Dominance. This is the story of Shane Warne's rise to fame as the world's best spinner. Perry's insights and interviews with the people closest to Warne on and off the field have created a riveting portrait. 'Bold Warnie' also traces the parallel emergence of Australia as the leading cricketing nation in the 1990s, after the doldrums of the 1980s. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/celeste daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630983407129-6M0KOD96S19REOZC3YA8/celeste2.jpg Celeste - Celeste Courtesan, countess, bestselling author - the tempestuous true story of a woman far ahead of her time ... The true story of the Countess Céleste de Chabrillan is a rich and tempestuous tale of an extraordinary woman. Born in the gutters of Paris in 1824, Céleste made her name as a dancer in the Parisian dance halls, where it is said she invented the can-can. Then, as an equestrienne at the Paris hippodrome, her daring feats on horseback thrilled the crowds. However, it was as the city's most celebrated courtesan that the young Parisian found genuine fame and fortune. Strikingly beautiful and charismatic, her lovers included famous novelists, artists and composers, not least Georges Bizet, whom, many believe, based his free and fearless Carmen on Céleste. But when Céleste married the Count de Chabrillan, a prominent member of the French aristocracy, Parisian society was scandalised. And when the pair turned up in far off Australia, where the count served as the first French consul, Melbourne society was scandalised in turn. Later a bestselling memoirist, novelist, playwright and librettist, the remarkable Countess Céleste de Chabrillan was, indeed, a woman far ahead of her time. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/home daily 1.0 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1631057744367-6J90VJERT8DG1Q2KU531/MHC_4351_200dpi_CV.jpg HOME - Roland Perry, Author Roland Perry has published 37 books in a range of genres including biography, politics, espionage, history (WWI and WWII), sport and fiction. Professor Perry has specialised in history and has written six bestsellers on World 1 and World War II. He is the only author to have produced books on both the major battle zones of the Great War (1914-1918): the Western Front (Monash) and Eastern Front (The Australian Lighthorse). Perry has also written the most comprehensive work on Australia’s involvement in the Pacific War (1941-1945): The Fight for Australia. His other four books on war are Bill the Bastard, Horrie the War Dog, Red lead, and The Changi Brownlow, which was short-listed for The Australian Booksellers Industry Award for non-fiction (2010). 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The subtitle mentions it is a biography and Australia's greatest all-round yachtsman by Roland Perry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/e3fdb509-a200-4441-ab39-3f038df848b7/rolandBooks_14.jpg HOME Book cover of 'The Australian Light Horse' by Roland Perry, featuring an image of a soldier on horseback in a desert landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/c0bf9786-2798-4b7c-8aee-97490012dab3/rolandBooks_13.jpg HOME Book cover titled 'The Changi Brownlow' by Roland Perry, featuring a historical black-and-white photo of a woman in military uniform, a portrait of a soldier at the top, and an anchor and ship illustration, with text describing an inspirational story about the Australian team spirit during wartime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/977db032-14b4-4110-8f4f-57c25cd399e2/rolandBooks_12.jpg HOME Book cover titled 'The Fight for Australia' by Roland Perry, featuring a black and white photo of soldiers in a jungle setting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/f3194f16-8235-432c-9644-47343e426bd3/rolandBooks_08.jpg HOME Cover of the book titled "The Queen, Her Lover and the Most Notorious Spy in History" by Roland Perry, featuring images of a pocket watch, a photo, and silhouettes of a woman and a man. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/602602d0-f0b2-4d53-8f52-4a9a842f1993/rolandBooks_15.jpg HOME Book cover for 'Braman's Invincibles' by Roland Perry, featuring a man with a baseball bat and a group photo of men in formal attire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/a60f6e8d-617b-47d7-9c68-a25feef4070a/rolandBooks_17.jpg HOME Book titled "The Ashes: A Celebration" by Roland Perry, featuring images related to cricket on the cover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/f273dd10-26b0-4834-a8f7-5736883e99d8/rolandBooks_18.jpg HOME Book cover of Keith Miller by Roland Perry featuring a black and white photo of Keith Miller in cricket attire holding a bat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/d376311b-6730-4db8-9647-2eb3afe92294/rolandBooks_21.jpg HOME Book titled 'Bradman's Best Ashes Teams' featuring a black-and-white photo of a young man in cricket uniform with a cap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/27d9a1b0-94e8-4e2a-8785-f76234c437c3/rolandBooks_24.jpg HOME Book cover titled "Waugh's Way" by Roland Perry, featuring a baseball player in white uniform swinging a bat during a game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/e449f05d-3ef4-4ac0-8cbf-c523d60beb82/rolandBooks_25.jpg HOME Book cover titled 'Bold Warnie' featuring a smiling portrait of Shane Warne, with subtitle about Australia's rise to cricket dominance, authored by Roland Perry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/2f20a12f-21b6-47a5-b22f-b61bc090ffd7/rolandBooks_27.jpg HOME Book cover of "Don Bradman: The Definitive Biography" by Roland Perry featuring a black-and-white photo of Don Bradman wearing a cricket cap and white cricket attire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/0ebb365b-3ac1-47ef-8cfe-914032d24c3c/rolandBooks_07.jpg HOME Book cover titled 'The Honourable Assassin' by Roland Perry. Features a close-up of a woman's face with a portion of her hair covering one eye, and a silhouette of a man in a coat holding a gun in the background against a cloudy sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/56e6c7ad-435c-4252-a140-70bd78ff3a95/rolandBooks_05.jpg HOME Book cover titled "The Assassin on the Bangkok Express" by Roland Perry, featuring images of two women, one in a yellow shirt and another in a blue and white dress, with a background that appears distressed or textured. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1292d0b9-20e4-4cb8-a9ab-92af741673cb/Oliphant-roland-perry.webp HOME Book cover of 'Oliphant' by Roland Perry, featuring a portrait of a man with glasses, set against a digital, radar-inspired background with lines and data points. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/bestashesteam daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630986540762-Z3N85MO98HAQVLCA5VXR/bradmans-best.jpg Bradman's Best Ashes Teams - Bradman's Best Ashes Teams 'Sir Donald was the best selector I came across in the game anywhere in the world.' - Richie Bernaud. Sir Donald Bradman saw all but a few of the 20th Century's greatest cricketers play the game. Apart from being cricket's most successful player and captain, Bradman built a reputation over five decades as the game's most knowledgeable and incisive selector. In exclusive interviews and correspondence with his biographer, Roland Perry, Bradman shares his thoughts on the world's best cricketers, his greatest ever Ashes teams, and why he chose their illustrious members. A very special addition to this book is the inclusion of Bradman's selection of the Top Five batting and bowling performances he witnessed, plus his own assessment of his five best innings in Ashes Tests. As well as Bradman's compelling revelations and thoughts on cricket's most celebrated exponents and the way the game has developed over the decades, this long-awaited book also contains engrossing portraits of his selections, who forever will be known as Bradman's Best Ashes Teams. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/bradmanbiography daily 0.75 2024-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630987201289-WA6BKIM67NK2WLHU7WRS/don.jpg The Don - Don Bradman: The Definitive Biography The biography of Sir Donald Bradman, The Don, went to the top of the best-seller lists in Australia and had the most positive run of ‘notices’ of books in Australia and the UK. Renowned cricket writer, E. W. Swanton, wrote in the UK Cricket Magazine: ‘The Don is an unsurpassable record of a phenomenal figure, from Lord’s to the moment of writing, has been, if any man ever has, a victim of his fame.’ Comprehensively researched, compelling and immensely readable, Don Bradman is the story of how the 'boy from Bowral' became one of Australia's most remarkable sporting heroes, inspiring our nation during the dark days of the Depression, the Second World War and beyond with world-record breaking scores and sensational innings - and establishing a reputation that endures to the present day. Based on exclusive interviews with Bradman himself, Perry's biography of the man who came to be known simply as The Don was widely acclaimed on first publication and reveals how his success was based on a crucial mixture of determination, ambition - and that extraordinary talent which was often described simply as 'genius'. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/lighthorse daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630984752153-KOJA4A91P2OBBPVMHWXZ/light.jpg The Australian Light Horse - The Australian Light Horse The Australian Light Horse was a unique force, first raised during the Boer War, and then reformed for World War I. Most of the men were from the outback, had a special bond with their horses (which were all brought from Australia) - and they knew how to survive and fight in the desert. The greatest part of the Allied victory over the Turks was theirs. Colonel Lawrence had a strategy for actually defeating the Turks - as opposed to the British High Command's acceptance of the status quo. What Lawrence needed was a mobile, elite force to join his own troops - and in the Light Horse he had them. Battle-hardened by Gallipoli and the repulse of the Turkish invasion of Egypt, the Australians were ready. Under their brilliant commander, Sir Harry Chauvel, they won great victories in the Sinai, Palestine and Syria - culminating in the last great cavalry charge in our military history, and the taking of Beersheba in 1917. Every Australian has heard of the Light Horse - but practically none have read their story. Roland Perry brings their story to life, and tells it with colour, emotion - and authority. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/theashes daily 0.75 2021-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630998549942-RUQFNRMFP6ZDO2OIDPFL/the-ashes-a-celebration.jpg The Ashes - A Celebration - The Ashes - A Celebration Roland Perry recounts the Ashes rivalry since that first match in March 1877, when an Australian team beat England at the MCG in the first ever international cricket match. From Grace to Warne; from Bradman to Botham; from the 1882 thriller at the Oval to the scintillating MCG Centenary Test of 1977; from the low point of the infamous Bodyline series to the spectacular 2005 series in England; and cycle of Australian dominance followed by humiliation that was ended in the historic Australian victory in 2014 - it is all captured in THE ASHES. Both authoritative and accessible, this is a captivating read that will appeal to both the serious cricket fans and sports lovers everywhere. This revised edition has been updated to include coverage of the 2015 series, and is a must-have for cricket fans. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/thequeen daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630986141941-BG3S6XQQYY74NO9WT5P6/the-queen.jpg The Queen, Her Lover and the Most Notorious Spy in History - The Queen, Her Lover and the Most Notorious Spy in History Long before her successful marriage to Prince Albert, Princess Victoria had an affair with the dashing Scottish 13th Lord Elphinstone. After the liaison was exposed, Elphinstone was banished to India, appointed Governor of Madras, which allowed Victoria's mother to engineer a royal union for her with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg. After five years pining for Elphinstone, Victoria finally gave in and married Albert. Despite a successful marriage, Victoria never forgot Elphinstone and after a decade in India he returned to her side as Lord-in-Waiting at Court. Many attempts were made to bury the memory of Lord Elphinstone, his long-running relationship with the monarch and his grand service for the Empire, but Victoria recorded it in letters to her confidant, her first- born, the Princess Royal: 'Vicky'. The revealing correspondence, like a ticking time-bomb, sat in a German castle attic until 1945 when King George VI, Victoria's great-grandson, sent a courtier, MI5 operative Anthony Blunt, on seven special missions to gather the letters. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/waughway daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630999503399-94TNQ5DPBQOZ9DE7AZXR/waugh.jpg Waugh’s Way - Waugh’s Way This is the story of how a battling fringe Test player reinvented himself as one of the greats in Australian cricket history by courage, skill and application. In 1989, Steve Waugh came of age as a star Test batsman with dominant big innings against England during the 1989 Ashes. After a shaky start he maintained Australia at the top of Test cricket, led the country in a sensational World Cup campaign, and returned the biggest winning runs in history in both forms of the game. Roland Perry, biographer of Sir Donald Bradman (The Don) and Shane Warne (Bold Warnie) delivers a compelling narrative that has drama and pace. The book explores the character, warts and all, of the person with the most high profile job in Australian sport. This mass market edition has been updated to include all the drama from the summer of 2001-2002 and the triumphant Australian tour of South Africa, as well as the controversy surrounding the shocking announcement that Waugh would be dropped as both captain and player of the One-Day side. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/thefightforaus daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630985320776-4SYL2L42BAEJXGXZZ7M2/fight-for.jpg The Fight for Australia - The Fight for Australia In the dark days following the fall of Singapore in February 1942, Australia faced its toughest battle yet. It was centre-stage and under direct attack from seemingly invincible Japanese forces. Winston Churchill was demanding our best battle-hardened troops stay in North Africa while President Roosevelt called for them to fight the Japanese in Burma. But Prime Minister John Curtin insisted, in an act of defiance, that they return to defend their homeland. Australia had never been more isolated – strategically, politically and physically. Or less prepared. In this masterful and gripping account, Roland Perry brings to life the bravery of our fellow Australians: from the forces engaged in brutal frontline fighting in the jungle, sea and air, to the backroom strategic campaigns waged by our politicians, and the sacrifices made on the home front. The Fight for Australia is the rich and revealing story of how we, as a nation, fought for our very survival – and stood up for our interests, against friend and foe alike. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/teascotch daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1631001521060-VS6BZBA3HH5MN56PNYLT/scotch.jpg Tea and Scotch with Bradman - Tea and Scotch with Bradman In 1995, journalist and author Roland Perry wrote to Sir Donald Bradman requesting a face-to-face interview for a biography he was planning of the great cricketer. Surprisingly, the Don agreed. For Perry, those days spent speaking with Bradman at the former cricketer's quiet home in suburban Adelaide were the beginning of a conversation that continued for years. Throughout, the real Bradman shone, not only as a great sportsman but as a brilliant thinker, a man of integrity, a humourist and musician with a fondness for tea and a Scotch or two. In Tea and Scotch with Bradman, Perry paints an intimate and revealing portrait of the man many regard as the greatest cricketer of all time. Accompanying his engaging narrative are a selection of rare photographs taken by acclaimed photographer Dean Golja during Perry's initial interviews at Bradman's home, many of which have never been seen or previously published. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/billthebastard daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630983302056-UPZ2HQD2ZKHAP27NPRHO/bill.jpg Bill the Bastard - Bill the Bastard Bill was massive. He had power, intelligence and unmatched courage. In performance and character he stood above all the other 200,000 Australian horses sent to the Middle East in the Great War. But as war horses go he had one serious problem. No one could ride him but one man - Major Michael Shanahan. Some even thought Bill took a sneering pleasure in watching would-be riders hit the dust. Bill the Bastard is the remarkable tale of a bond between a determined trooper and his stoic but cantankerous mount. They fought together. They depended on each other for their survival. And when the chips were down, Bill's heroic efforts and exceptional instincts in battle saved the lives of Shanahan and four of his men. By September 1918, 'Bill the Bastard' was known by the entire Light Horse force, who used his name not as an insult, but as a term of endearment. Bill had become a legend, a symbol of the courage and unbreakable will of the Anzac mounted force. There was no other horse like Bill the Bastard. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/bankokexpress daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630999721142-CJTSZ2ZIXK2L9D5N7ZUT/assassin-bk.jpg The Assassin on the Bangkok Express - The Assassin on the Bangkok Express A fast-paced international thriller by top-selling Melbourne author of fiction and non-fiction, Roland Perry. This is a sequel to Perry’s 2015 book, The Honourable Assassin, in a new series of thrillers that incorporate actual events, criminal organisations and key figures in the underworld of Asia as they play out globally, involving international law enforcement and intelligence operations. The Honourable Assassin concludes with the main protagonist, Victor Cavalier, learning from former Thai supercop and boxer, Jacinta Cin Lai, that his daughter may be alive, even though a mysterious video sent to him seemed to show that she had been decapitated by Mexican drug warlord, Mendez. Now, in The Assassin on the Bangkok Express, he learns that the video may have been doctored to ensure that Cavalier accepted the assassination assignment to eliminate Mendez. However, Cavalier has now heard that his daughter is alive but is a sex slave for the Mexican drug gang operating in the Golden Triangle. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/honourableassassin daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1631000557162-O51NY25SXRF08J1VXWA4/Honorableassassin.jpg The Honourable Assassin - The Honourable Assassin The execution of a Mexican drug cartel hit man in a Carlton laneway draws Vic Cavalier to Thailand and back to a past he'd rather forget in this tense, action-packed thriller. Vic Cavalier has certainly had better weeks. His newspaper editor is hell-bent on showing him the door, his footy team lost its last game, and his drinking habit is winning the war with his better angels. And then there's the man with the bullet in his head and links to a Mexican drug-cartel lying in a Carlton laneway. When his editor wants the story Cavalier finds himself in Bangkok uncomfortably close to the action and under the watchful eye of a local cop with a remarkable background. In the steamy violent world of Thai elite power plays and the chaos of a coup, Cavalier's motivation becomes clear - this same cartel is implicated in the disappearance and possible murder of his daughter. He has no choice but to pursue them - whatever it takes. Weaving together a face-paced, all-too-real story The Honourable Assassin is part psychological thriller and part today's headlines about massive illegal drug trafficking in Australia and corruption at the highest levels in South East Asia. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/bradmanbest daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630986494962-WV49TUHVBSZI6GQAPQWF/bradmans-best2.jpg Bradman’s Best - Bradman’s Best Sir Donald Bradman saw all but a few of the 20th century's greatest cricketers play the game. Apart from being cricket's most successful player and captain, Bradman built a reputation over five decades as the game's most knowledgable and incisive selector. These factors, combined with his status as one of the legends of world cricket and his unparalleled understanding of cricketing history, put Bradman in a unique position to make the most informed judgment on the composition of the world's all-time best cricket team.In Bradman's Best, Sir Donald Bradman reveals his Dream Team, selected from all cricket-playing nations since the first Test was played in 1877. In exclusive interviews and correspondence with his biographer, Roland Perry, Bradman shares his thoughts on the world's best cricketers, his greatest ever team and why he chose its illustrious members. As well as Bradman's compelling revelations and thoughts on cricket's most celebrated exponents and the way the game has developed over the decades, this long-awaited book also contains engrossing portraits of his selections, who forever will be known as Bradman’s Best. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/keithmiller daily 0.75 2024-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630997612973-OY24BNJ01T44K8NKBLZC/Keith-Miller-The-Life.jpg Keith Miller: Australia’s Greatest All-Rounder - Keith Miller: The Life of Australia’s Greatest All-Rounder Keith Miller, who died early in 2005, was perhaps the greatest all-rounder Australian cricket has ever seen. Roland Perry has had full access to Miller's papers and to his family members to produce the definitive biography of his life. Miller was both a fearsome fast bowler and dashing batsman who could take a bowling attack apart. He also had a prodigious appetite for gambling and alcohol - and Princess Margaret appears to have been one of his many liaisons. In the epic Test battles between England Australia he always played an instrumental part. But he was a legend for another reason: during the war he flew Mosquitos for the RAF, and ever after endured severe "survivor's guilt" that so many of his comrades had perished in service. While his dealings with women could be cavalier, even ruthless at times, to the end of his life he would travel long distances to visit the grave of a fallen colleague in an obscure country churchyard to consecrate their memory. With interest in England-Australia cricket at its highest for years, this biography of Miller will be hugely topical. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/monashoutsider daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630983907734-4J3QYQBJDPF2FV0AIJ15/mon900.jpg Monash - The Outsider Who Won a War - Monash - The Outsider Who Won a War Australian general Sir John Monash changed the way wars were fought and won. When the British and German high commands of the First World War failed to gain ascendency after fours years of slaughter never before seen in human history, Monash used innovative techniques and modern technology to plan and win major battles, forcing Germany to capitulate. His obsessional, brilliant planning, coupled with a ruthless streak, caused him to break the German army in a succession of battles that led to the end of the Great War. Author Roland Perry brings to life the fascinating story of the man whom many have judged as the greatest-ever Australian. Monash: The Outsider Who Won A War draws on the subject's comprehensive letter and diary archive - one of the largest in Australia's history. The result is a riveting portrait that reaches to the heart of the true Monash character. It weaves together the many strands of his life as a family man, student, engineer, businessman, lawyer, renaissance man, teacher, soldier, leader, romantic and lover of the arts. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/invincibles daily 0.75 2024-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630986883526-5NY8F9K9AC3DPVOLIXOE/bradmans-invincibles.jpg Bradman's Invincibles - Bradman's Invincibles: The Story of the 1948 Ashes Series The 1948 Ashes series in Britain was quite unique. The Australian team under Donald Bradman went through the whole summer - county matches as well as Tests - undefeated. Of the five-match Test series they won four and drew the fifth. Hence, and indisputably, the "Invincibles". It was to be Bradman's swansong as a Test player: but without the appropriate golden farewell, as he was bowled for a duck at the Oval in his last Test innings of all. Roland Perry's book is a comprehensive account of the whole tour, match by match, as this remarkable side - featuring great bowlers like Lindwall and Miller as well as batting maestros like Bradman - moved around the country from county to county, conquering all before them. As well as absorbing match reports, Perry also supplies profiles of every player on both sides to have played in the Test series. Published in time for the 2009 Ashes series - the first for England under Kevin Pietersen's captaincy, and coming after the previous Australian whitewash in 2007 - Bradman's Invincibles is the definitive account of a remarkable sports team. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/roland daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1631148007614-DI9O43G3QRT1JJLRFE10/210118_plasmoidCar_0026.jpg ROLAND - Some insights… How would you describe your writing practice? After 37 books, a routine has developed. Once I have done basic research, writing begins while research never really ends. The day is split between writing about five hours and research and reading a further five hours. In between I do physical exercise and/or ten km bike rides. I start from day one with 1000 words and maintain that quota six days a weeks. There is an increased word output as the manuscript progresses, culminating with about 2000 words a day. A Pavlovian reward is a good coffee at a favorite café. Where do you usually work? In an office at home in Melbourne, and also in my ‘writer’s retreat’ in my second favorite city, Chiang Mai, in Northern Thailand. What made you write when you started out? I had no pretensions about wanting to become an author. I ‘fell’ into journalism at The Age in Melbourne. After five years I want to develop that acquired skill further, and went to London, where I worked for five years as a script-writer, on-camera interviewer, director and producer on documentary films. In that time, I began a novel Program for a Puppet. It was an international bestseller and translated into eight languages. That allowed me to write full-time, and develop a style, which comes with confidence in developing narrative and characters, whether fiction or non-fiction. Books and film writing are two distinctly different functions. Books need a literary approach; film needs a greater visual sense. I am fortunate to have earned a living in both, which allows me to switch from one to the other. I have enjoyed non-fiction writing, but over the last six years with my Chiang Mai base have written a trilogy of thrillers----The Honourable Assassin; The Assassin on the Bangkok Express; and The Shaman. Once they were published, I wrote 15 hours of film/TV based on the Trilogy, and expect this to be sold to a network or streaming company soon. How important have libraries been in your life – from childhood to researching your books? In grade two (aged seven) at Primary School I was bitten by the reading bug and spent many hours in the school library reading or arranging to borrow. I devoured a book a day. In secondary school this fell away but I revived the ‘bug’ in my 20s. I have spent a fair proportion of my life in libraries, archives and research institutions in Australia, the UK, France, Russia and the US, culminating in my appointment to the Advisory Council to the National Archives of Australia in Canberra in 2006. Which writers have inspired you? A favourite writer is Australia’s Alan Moorehead. He was a fine war correspondent. Others whose style and approach I admire are Diana Georgeff, Phillip Knightley, Les Carlyon, Clivei James (non-fiction) and Denis Warner. Tom Keneally is entertaining and with a penchant for Australian stories and history. America’s Gore Vidal is a supreme essayist. Graham Greene and John Le Carre made a lasting impression. A common theme of most of these authors that appeals is the spareness of their writing. Their economic use of the language, wit and a lack of pretension are keys to my appreciation of them. Their writing has an integrity, and therefore an authority, that is admirable. Also, see Sydney Morning Herald article: Books that changes me. Roland researching for the his 2020 book, The Shaman. Image by Dean Golja) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg ROLAND https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/fb6da195-9dea-4ec9-bcb8-ced9c9ee0bf1/210118_plasmoidCar_0026.jpg ROLAND https://www.rolandperry.com.au/rollysailing daily 0.75 2024-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630984183290-TRGGPOZBZ9DJXOX63GIK/sailing.jpg Sailing to the Moon - Sailing to the Moon: The Biography of Rolly Tasker, Australia's Greatest All-round Yachtsman "In more than sixty years of competition, Rolly Tasker never lost a yacht, a crew, or a rig, or retired from gear failure. During his career he sailed further than the distance to the moon. This is the story of a fascinating and, at times, controversial Australian sportsman." Roland Perry's biography of Rolly Tasker captures the dramatic life of one of Australia's greatest all-round yachtsman who won more races nationally and internationally than any other sailor. This fascinating biography covers his two world championship wins, the design and creation of the Siska yachts, his journeys in the wake of some of history's finest explorers including Cook, Flinders and Bass as well as his personal challenges. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/horrie daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630983646944-X0QDIDM9LVUBRGL4H7OT/horrie.jpg Horrie the War Dog - Horrie the War Dog He was a little stray pup the boys of First Australian Machine Gun Battalion saved from harsh Libyan Desert. He became their much-loved mascot and saviour. But what happened to Horrie on his return to Australia? An extraordinarily moving and fascinating story of bravery, mateship and the lengths people will go to to save a friend. In the harsh Libyan desert in the middle of the second world war, Private Jim Moody, a signaller with the First Australian Machine Gun Battalion, found a starving puppy on a sand dune. Moody called the dog Horrie. Much more than a mascot, Horrie's exceptional hearing picked up the whine of enemy aircraft two minutes before his human counterparts and repeatedly saved the lives of the thousand-strong contingent. The little Egyptian Terrier's ritual of sitting, barking, then dashing for the trenches, had the gunners running for cover before their camp was strafed and bombed. Where Moody went, Horrie went too, through the battle zones of the Middle East and far beyond. In the finest ANZAC tradition, Horrie the War Dog is a story of intrigue and illusion, and of sacrifice, courage and loyalty. Best-selling author, Roland Perry, tells this remarkable true story for the first time. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/changibrownlow daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/1630985155300-Z9VH44ZHGGE5L2H9JDDU/changi.jpg Changi Brownlow - Changi Brownlow This is the moving, powerful and surprising story of a group of Australian POWs who organise an Australian Rules Football competition under the worst conditions imaginable - inside Changi prison. Complete with tribunal, selection panel, umpires and coaches, the final game of the one and only season was between ‘Victoria’ and the ‘Rest of Australia’, which attracted 10 000 spectators, and a unique Brownlow Medal was awarded in this unlikely setting under the curious gaze of Japanese prison guards. Meet the main characters behind this spectacle: Peter Chitty, the farm hand from Snowy River country with unfathomable physical and mental fortitude, and one of eight in his immediate family who volunteered to fight and serve in WW2; ‘Chicken’ Smallhorn, the Brownlow-medal winning little man with the huge heart; and ‘Weary’ Dunlop, the courageous doctor, who cares for the POWs as they endure malnutrition, disease and often inhuman treatment. Changi Brownlow is a story of courage and the invincibility of the human spirit, and highlights not only the Australian love of sport, but its power to offer consolation in times of extreme hardship. https://www.rolandperry.com.au/the-shaman daily 0.75 2024-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f07c736c49bcf6076a83d5b/d197c56c-15ce-4e4a-bf9a-5dcd8014a00f/The+Shaman.jpg The Shaman - The Shaman Victor Cavalier has received the phone call every parent dreads: his daughter is lying in a coma after a motorcycle accident and given little chance of survival. But when a mysterious scientists known as the Shaman intervenes to save his daughter's life, Victor decides he must meet this maverick genius. The Shaman has developed cold-fusion technology that harnesses atomic energy from water. It can be used to rteplace combustion engines, revolutionising transport and power generation, but also to build terrifying weaponry - making him the target of a ruthless international organisation that will do anything to gain control of this new technology.