True grit: Tales from a decade on the turf

by Les Carlyon

Book by Carlyon, Les

Genres: Horse Racing

Paperback

First published November 1, 2013

About the author

Les Carlyon was born in northern Victoria in 1942. He has been editor of the Age, Melbourne, and editor-in-chief of the Herald and Weekly Times group. He has twice won the Walkley Award. His Gallipoli was published in 2001 to enormous critical and commercial success in Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain, and is now widely regarded as the definitive history of that campaign. Gallipoli won the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best History Book and the Australian Publishers' Association Readers' Choice Award. He died in March 2019.

Reviews

[Robyn Coyle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting - too much to take in in one read - a good book to pick up and read in between other books