Treasure of the Bosun Bird

Tony Matthews is a highly reclusive Welsh-Australian novelist and historian who has led an interesting life. He has been ‘headhunted’ by the CIA; guarded Queen Elizabeth, and witnessed terrifying events, including being at the centre of one of the bloodiest military coups in modern history. He discovered a royal princess living secretly in Queensland; rescued a drowning man from a flooded Thai river; almost been blown to pieces by a Communist death squad in Manila; volunteered to paint an orphanage on the banks of the famous River Kwai, and, in a desperate attempt to save U.K. beaches and wildlife, helped to destroy a crippled oil tanker off the coast of Cornwall.

Arriving in Australia from the U.K. during the early 1970s, Tony hitch-hiked across the country with just $24 in his pocket and with little real understanding of the immensity of the continent. When he reached the edge of the Nullarbor Plain, for example, which was then just a dirt ribbon of track stretching into a waterless infinity, he was the proud possessor of a spare shirt, half a bottle of tepid Coca-Cola, and a well-thumbed volume of Dylan Thomas poems. The rest, as they say, is history.

The author is based in Hervey Bay, QLD.

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