The Colt with No Regrets
Hard Copy, Hot Metal and the Power of the Written Word
$31.27
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
4 June 2020
Summary
Welcomed by Phillip Adams as an important Australian memoir full of insight and humour, this is also a story about growing up. It’s the personal journey of a 16-year-old boy starting work in ‘the golden age of journalism’ when reporters worked with hard copy and hot metal and endured a mixture of instruction and reprimand that would be branded today as workplace harassment of the highest order.
The book’s central theme is a young man’s growing friendship with an eccentric gay Englishm…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925927030 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925927032 |
| Author: | Elliot Hannay |
| Publisher: | Wilkinson Publishing |
| Imprint: | Wilkinson Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 4 June 2020 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Elliot Hannay
Elliot Hannay is an author and veteran journalist. His career started in 1958 at the age of sixteen and he worked in newspapers, ABC radio and television, media consultancy and the public service for 60 years. He was selected by The Australia China Council and the Department of Foreign Affairs as one of six Australian journalists to tour the People’s Republic of China. During his career, Elliot was targeted by Australian Ku Klux Klansmen, threatened by corrupt senior police officers in pre-Fitzgerald Queensland and faced a $3million writ when he exposed the secret financial dealings of King Cross underworld figure, Abe Saffron. He lives on the Atherton Tablelands with his novelist wife Barbara.
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