The Story of Western Australia’s Gold Rush: the history behind my novel ‘Gold Town’

Today, Australia ranks second only to China as a gold-producing country. And much of that gold still comes from Western Australia, which was still an isolated British colony, less than sixty years old, when the first gold finds were recorded. In the middle of the nineteenth century, when poverty drove many from their homelands toContinue reading “The Story of Western Australia’s Gold Rush: the history behind my novel ‘Gold Town’”

A Black Swan Event

If you’ve been at all interested in discussions of those drastic events of recent years, like September 11 or the financial crisis of 2008, that have shaken the world economies and had repercussions for ordinary people like you and me, I’m sure you will have heard the expression ‘Black Swan Event’, something world-shaking that isContinue reading “A Black Swan Event”