Long Table Lunch with Peter FitzSimons

Friday 22 November 2024

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Peter Fitzsimons will be talking about his latest novel, the legend of Albert Jacka, at a long table lunch at Rick Stein at bannisters. The legend of Albert Jacka is an unforgettable story of the…

Peter Fitzsimons will be talking about his latest novel, the legend of Albert Jacka, at a long table lunch at Rick Stein at bannisters.

The legend of Albert Jacka is an unforgettable story of the bravery and sacrifice of one extraordinary soldier that takes us from the shores of Gallipoli to the battlefields of France, all brought to vivid life by Australia’s greatest storyteller.

Peter Fitzsimons AM is Australia’s bestselling non-fiction writer, and for the past 38 years has also been a journalist and columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun-Herald.

He is the author of a number of highly successful books, including Breaker Morant, Burke and Wills, Monash’s masterpiece, Kokoda, Ned Kelly and Gallipoli, as well as biographies of such notable Australians as Sir Douglas Mawson, Nancy Wake and John Eales. His passion is to tell Australian stories, our own stories: of great men and women, of stirring events in our history.

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