Introducing Greg de Moore
Posted by: Reading Victoria Moderator
24 December 2008
Greg de Moore is next Summer Read author blogging from 26 – 30 December.
His book, Tom Wills: His Spectacular Rise and Tragic Fall is one of the books on the Summer Read shortlist.
Greg de Moore is a consultant psychiatrist at Sydney’s Westmead Hospital and his study of Wills’ life stems from his interest in male suicide. His ten years of research has unearthed original medical records, letters, text books and notes, previously believed to have been lost or destroyed.
Tom Wills: His Spectacular Rise and Tragic Fall is the definitive biography of Tom Wills – flawed genius, sporting libertine, fearless leader and agitator, and the man most often credited with creating the game we now know as Australian Rules football. His contribution to Australian history has endured for more than 150 years and is perhaps the greatest Australian sports story of all.
As part of the free Summer Read events across Victoria, Greg will be appearing at:
• Melbourne Cricket Ground , Betty Cuthbert Room / Atrium, Gate 3 on Thursday 5 February 2009, 6.30 pm
For more information phone 8664 7555 or book online at http://summerread35.eventbrite.com
This is a National Sports Museum Public Program in association with the State Library of Victoria. The event includes a special viewing of interview footage from the SBS Tom Wills documentary to be screened in May 2009 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of first rules written for Australian Football.
• Rutherglen Football Club, Barkly Park, Reid Street, Rutherglen on Tuesday 24 February 2009, 8pm �
For more information phone 02 6032 8206 or book online at http://summerread36.eventbrite.com
The event includes a special viewing of interview footage from the SBS Tom Wills documentary to be screened in May 2009 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of first rules written for Australian Football.
What Greg says about summer reading
‘My first Summer Read was Black Beauty. I was about 7. Dad was batting
in a cricket match; I sat on the boundary reading. A missed bumper saw
Dad unconscious and carried back to the pavilion. I walked over, book
held open, to see Dad as he was carried off. He recovered in the
pavilion; I returned to reading on the boundary line. Summer in
Melbourne.’
