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"The year that I was getting ready to leave Maroubra, the Beatles were getting ready to leave each other"; and so begins the tales of a South Sydney Lad. Just a South Sydney Lad is a boyhood memoir about a family who loved a gamble, loved the football and who always walked 'briskly with no skylarking' to Church on a Sunday. Exploring the Sydney suburb of Maroubra in the 1950s and 60s, the memoir tells a series of whimsical and nostalgic tales reminiscent of the era. It was a time a time when rock began to roll, when the radio talked back, when a bush kangaroo saved more lives than the…mehr

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"The year that I was getting ready to leave Maroubra, the Beatles were getting ready to leave each other"; and so begins the tales of a South Sydney Lad. Just a South Sydney Lad is a boyhood memoir about a family who loved a gamble, loved the football and who always walked 'briskly with no skylarking' to Church on a Sunday. Exploring the Sydney suburb of Maroubra in the 1950s and 60s, the memoir tells a series of whimsical and nostalgic tales reminiscent of the era. It was a time a time when rock began to roll, when the radio talked back, when a bush kangaroo saved more lives than the emergency services, and the national service lottery sent an Australian pop idol, Normie Rowe, to Vietnam without so much as a 'que sera'... and oh, ... when the world nearly blew up during the Cuban Missile Crisis. As he revisits the memories of his youth, Anthony will tell you exactly why he was glad to be a South Sydney Lad!
Autorenporträt
Anthony Harkness was born in the same year Princess Elizabeth became Queen (1952) and grew up in the Sydney suburb of Maroubra - a child of the fifties and a teenager through the sixties. His school days moved from slate to sharpened pencils, from knibs and inkwells to fountain pens and finally the ubiquitous Bic biro - the last implement being regarded as the work of the devil by his teachers.Anthony has been at various times a teacher, a senior school assistant principal, a rugby league coach, and a singer in two rock 'n' roll bands. He has degrees in Education, Economics and Theology which makes him well suited to explore the sweet mysteries of life on spreadsheets and/or metaphysical essays.He has published in academic journals and written for community radio on the Sunshine Coast. He reached the national finals of 'The Spoken Word' poetry competition in 2021 with his original poem 'Wine Wisdom'.An anthology of poems is presently underway. 'Just a South Sydney Lad' is his first novel.