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Born in England, Tony Brooks served in the Royal Navy, and then trained as a teacher. He studied French at the Sorbonne. He taught high school, having studied French at the Institut Britannique, and the Sorbonne in Paris, and was also a primary school teacher and principal.
Migrating to Australia in 1971, he taught for 10 years at all levels of primary school and as tutor/lecturer at Murray Park CAE. His degree is in Educational Drama. His scripts have been performed and presented on stage, radio and in film in Australia and the United States.
His novel First of All, about the reformer Catherine Helen Spence, was published by Axiom Press in 1995 and re-printed in 2001. His novel about the “blackbirding era” was published online.
In 1994 his play Games received an Advertiser Award as the best new play of the year. In 2001, his musical Ice, based on the love letters of Douglas and Paquita Mawson, was produced by the Opus Performing Arts Company at the prestigious Noarlunga Theatre in Adelaide. In 2005, his one act play Honest John, set amid the great drivers’ strike of 1910, won the South Australian Hills Drama Festival.
Tony has also written a trilogy of novels based on his TV scripts. He also confesses to writing dozens of poems that he sometimes performs in public, and which have helped unlock the flow of words over the years.
He now lives in Plympton with his wife, Lyn who is an artist and designer.
Tony continues his exploration of Australian/South Pacific history in his Island Series Adventures!