Australia Australia - Robin Wallace-Crabbe
Imprint ISBN 0 7322 2552 3
202pp AU$12.95

A true-life romp through the vaults of the author's family origins. Family secrets are divulged, a subspecies is formed, hitherto unknown facts about Napoleon's life in Australia are revealed, as is the failure of the French to colonise our fair coast. A comic introduction that is often hilarious. Or as Manning Clark has said of it: 'This is not just a very funny and very witty book; it is an extended metaphor about life."

Robin Wallace-Crabbe was born in 1938. He has been a painter for most of his life, and grazed cattle in Victoria and New South Wales for over twenty years. He now grazes poodles and babies. His novels include Feral Palit (1978), Goanna (1982), Australia Australia (Imprint 1989) and Dogs (Imprint 1993). His memoirs were published as A Man's Childhood (Imprint 1998). He has written a series of Essington Holt thrillers under the name Robert Wallace, including To Catch a forger, An Axe to Grind and Fingerplay.Other crime novels available in Imprint include Payday (1990), Floodrain (1992) and Art Rat (1993).