Neville extolled the virtues of Hamlet, Graham Greene and Bertrand Russell and took home from me, a Jeremy Clarkson book about big things like the Hoover Dam and B52 bombers.
Brian talked about how the French nearly claimed Australia for France, when La Perouse anchored off Port Jackson, only a day or two after Governor Phillip and the first fleet’s 11 ships had anchored there. A book he brought in discusses what would have happened if the French had been successful.
Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs by Australian Antony Lowenstein got a favourable mention too.
David Palmer