Books by Granville Allen Mawer

Granville Allen Mawer is the author of Fast Company, the story of the clipper ship Walter Hood (Plainwords Press, 1994), Most Perfectly Safe, a study of convict shipwrecks 1833-42 (Allen and Unwin, 1997), and Ahab's Trade, a history of South Seas whaling (Allen and Unwin, 1999), the last of which was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's History Prize 2000 and the NSW Premier's History Prize 2001. He is a contributor to the Australian Dictionary of Biography and sometime reviewer of maritime books for The Times Literary Supplement. His most recently published work is The Life and Legend of Jack Doolan, the Wild Colonial Boy (Mulini Press 2004).