Lane Cove Historical1 Society Inc.
NOTICEBOARD MAY 2017
MONTHLY MEETING TUESDAY 23 MAY Stephen Dando-Collins SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER AAwwaarrrdd wwiiinnnniiinngg aauuttthhoorrr The Hero maker Stephen Stephen Our May 23 Speaker will be Stephen Dando-Collins, an DDaannddoo--CCoolllllliiinnss award winning author, biographer, novelist and children's author who has written on a wide variety of The story of topics from history as well as biographies and research Paul Brickhill, the on WWI and WWII. His latest book, The Hero Maker, is a Greenwich boy whose life biography of Greenwich local, Paul Jerome Chester was as legendary as the Brickhill. legendary stories he created In The Hero Maker, Dando-Collins exposes the contradictions of one of Australia’s most successful, but Tuesday troubled, writers. Brickhill’s extraordinary story—from 23 May the youth with a debilitating stutter to newspaper journalist, to Spitfire pilot and POW, to feted author— 7pm Lane Cove Library!Supper afterwards explodes vividly to life on the centenary of Brickhill's birth.
Paul Brickhill and his family lived in Greenwich at 8 Mitchell, then Greendale Street and then at 44 George All visitors welcome; join us and bring your friends to Street. He attended North Sydney Boys High and hear this popular author in Sydney Sydney University. Dropping out of university, Paul's speaking at the Writers' Festival. friend and neighbour, Peter Finch, got him his first job as a copy boy for The Sun newspaper.