Great John Maclean book tour of Scotland
These were my opening remarks at the launch of Great John Maclean Has Come Home to the Clyde at Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, Glasgow on 26…
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Great John Maclean book tour of Scotland
These were my opening remarks at the launch of Great John Maclean Has Come Home to the Clyde at Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, Glasgow on 26 August 2025. Joining me on the panel were Owen Maitland, national president of Scottish Socialist Youth (pictured above left) and Iain Gault from my publisher Resistance Books (above right). “History’s what people are trying to hide from you, not what they’re trying to show you.
Where to buy Great John Maclean outside Australia
As far as I am aware, only Calton Books, Mount Florida Books and Lighthouse Books in Scotland, and Connolly Books in Ireland, have copies in store. The book is available online at all other outlets listed. Scotland Calton Books, 159 London Road, Glasgow (pictured above) Mount Florida Books, 1068 Cathcart Road, Glasgow Lighthouse Books, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh. Ireland Connolly Books, 43 East Essex Street Temple Bar, Dublin UK
John James Hackett
It was early 1975. I remember warm summer nights and nude swimming in the backyard pool of the house on Nottage Terrace. There were a few Adelaide locals but mainly twenty-somethings evacuated from Darwin after Cyclone Tracy struck on Christmas Day. A mix of English, Americans and Australians; more than a few fresh from India and the Asian hippie trail. They had been part of a little Darwin scene that
Scotland 2018: a magical sixties birthday tour
If it had all gone smoothly there wouldn’t have been any stories to tell, would there? Despite the challenges and hurdles along the way, our three-week tour around the Scottish Highlands was a marvelous and memorable experience. The first challenge was getting there. Once she’d decided she wanted to mark her admission into the 60s club with a trip back to Scotland, Di found a reasonable three-leg business class fare.
The ‘No Fixed Address’ eBook
An eBook of ‘No Fixed Address’ is now available on Ratuken Kobo and Amazon. The Kobo version can be purchased from Rakuten Kobo and can be read on a Kobo eReader, a Kobo Books app or the Kobo Web Reader. Click on the screenshot below to go to the site. The Kobo preview includes the foreword, introduction, prologue and first chapter of the book. The Kindle version can be purchased
Triple-treat at Her Majesty’s
There was a lot of love in the room at the Adelaide launch of ‘No Fixed Address’ and the opening of the related exhibition in the Wall Gallery at Her Majesty’s Theatre on 24 August. Main pic: Duckie Taylor, Graeme Isaac, Donald Robertson and Ricky Harrison. Pic by Peter Thurmer. An early arrival was original No Fixed Address sound engineer (and sometimes bass player) Duckie Taylor, accompanied by his cousin
Yarning on the radio about ‘No Fixed Address’
Through May, June and July 2023, there was a swag of radio interviews done in Melbourne and Sydney about the book ‘No Fixed Address’. Links are below. Main pic above: Ricky Harrison and Bart Willoughby at ABC studios, Ultimo, Sydney, 6 July 2023. 3CR Melbourne #1 (5 May) Bart Willoughby waxed lyrical on No Fixed Address, music, life, the universe and everything on Robbie’s Thorpe’s Blak ‘n’ Deadly show on
‘No Fixed Address’ – reviews and reactions
The critics are swooning over ‘No Fixed Address’. Links to print and online articles and reviews are below. ‘The story of this radical group is told in a new book by Donald Robertson. On the back cover Goanna’s Shane Howard describes No Fixed Address as “the tip of the spear” that plunged into the heart of middle Australia. And as a story, it’s got everything – starting with a fiery
Addison Road Writers’ Festival 2023
Ricky Harrison and Sean Moffatt from No Fixed Address travelled from Gippsland to Sydney in mid-May to do some publicity for the ‘No Fixed Address’ book. On Saturday 20 May, Ricky and Sean joined me on a lunchtime panel at the Addison Road Writers’ Festival in Marrickville. It was a brilliant, memorable, session (superbly marshalled by Mark Mordue) capped off by a stunning two-song performance. The duo played Ricky’s songs