Bøker av Terence FitzSimons

Going for a stroll is a wonderful activity, going for a stroll, and not returning home, creates a problem. This was the situation Jane Hanson found herself faced with when her parents didn't return from one of their rambles! Obviously, Jane went in search of her folk. In the course of her search many strange events occurred, before all the Hansons safely returned to their village, Littleton.

Melbourne, 1875. At the end of a beguiling honeymoon at Bondi, Inspector Michael Kent and his wife Deborah are set to return to Melbourne; but not before the Inspector becomes involve in local a suicide, and later a shipboard incident. Is it a murder? In Melbourne street strangling, arson and murder follow. How are these crimes to be dealt with? Kent has his own way of managing such matters!

Terence FitzSimons is an Honorary Research Fellow at Federation University Australia and an honorary historian with Sovereign Hill Museums Association, an affiliated institute of the university. His research interests are centred on Victorian social history.

This is the biography of a pioneer aeronaut, Charles Henry Brown, whose life-long obsession with aerostation took him from his native Great Britain to Australia and India. The story of his quest for recognition is deeply researched, while being told in an anti-generic mode - imagined dialogue, play scripts and speculative interventions. To date Brown's story has not been told in any great detail, and in the few instances where his achievements have been noted the records are marred by inaccuracies. While the story is prima facie an historical biography it also highlights the travail and frustrations faced by the early aviation pioneers - in an age of innovation and advancement they were viewed by many in the scientific community, and the general public, as being no more than providers of novelty entertainment. Brown never accepted this role and had a greater vision of the future of aviation. Brown's story also reflects the many interesting, and to us, peculiar aspects of contemporary Victorian society.