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Tony Thomas’s new book will be launched on Wednesday 10th October from 6-8pm at Il Gambero’s Restaurant, 166 Lygon St, Carlton.
He’d love to see Rotary friends and partners there. Key speaker is Bill Kininmonth, a former senior executive of the Bureau of Meteorology, and Perth-raised like Tony.
After the launch it’s optional to head downstairs for a light dinner.
Tony says, "When I was reporting for The West Australian in the 1960s pre-boom, I enjoyed doing slice-of-life pieces about unsung people like watch repairers, furniture removers, wood choppers and rubbish dump caretakers. I’d get behind the scenes at events like pop concerts, the speedway, and the theatre. I’d meet colourful characters like anthropologists still travelling the North-West by camel, and the last of the Chinese market gardeners in South Perth. It’s all a colorful miscellany of small city stuff that lived ‘below the radar’. That was my happy-go-lucky era and I hope, fun and curiosity come across in these pages. There’s about 80 of these short pieces.”
To register for the launch, hit this link.