I am a fifth generation Tasmanian, but fled my home state as soon as I graduated from university. I started my academic careeer in England and have held academic posts in Australia, Canada and Hong Kong.

A falling leaf returns to its roots, so having retired from academe this leaf fell back to Tasmania, where he is living with his partner and realizing a long frustrated ambition as a writer of fiction.


Hong Kong and Tasmania have much in common. Both are islands; the inhabitants of both have a love-hate relationship with that looming presence, The Mainland; both are extraordinarily beautiful and mountainous; both have governments that refuse to recognize their charge of stewardship over that beauty, a beauty I have tried to capture in photographic images while it still lasts. My academic and other rovings are told in my memoirs.

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