NEW: DURING 2026 the independent Australian publisher Kembla Books will publish Rowan's account of the period 1945-72, in which a would-be-poet and beachcomber solo-sailor was conscripted in the first call-up destined for servicing Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, and morphed to become an enemy of the state .... it answers questions historical researchers frequently ask, and scotches romanticised accounts of the era. Watch this space.
The Barber Who Read History: Essays in Radical History by Rowan Cahill and Terry Irving (Bull Ant Press, Sydney), 230pp. (9pp colour), Index, paperback is now via the Author websites of Rowan Cahill and Terry Irving as a free downloadable pdf (links below).
AUTHOR WEBSITES: Terry Irving's website is at Terry Irving: Radical Historian, Author and Educator; Rowan Cahill's website is at Rowan Cahill: Radical Historian, Author, Educator
Rowan Cahill's award winning ('Jim Hagan Memorial Prize', UOW) PhD dissertation (2013) on the journalist, communist, intellectual Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997) is online (open access) via Research Online at the University of Wollongong, NSW.
LINKS
- Google Preview of Radical Sydney here. If copies are not on display in your bookshop, order with the bookshop, or here with the publisher. Print On Demand copies are being supplied quickly.
