Melbourne / Internet/ - Brad Collis is Melbourne-based writer
and journalist. Snowy - The Making of
Modern Australia was his first book, commissioned in 1988. He was born
in Perth in 1955. Brad has worked and lived in several countries, including
The Netherlands, Slovenia and the former USSR. Aside from 25 years as a
professional journalist, he is also an experienced potter, and a keen bushman
and photographer.
In December 1993, Hodder&Stoughton published his first novel The
Soul Stone.
He is now finishing the final draft of his second novel; its
titled yet to be finalised. The story oscillates between Slovenia during
the 1941-45 communist revolution in Yugoslavia, and a present-day western
‘democracy’. Through the lives of two brothers the book parallels the 50-year
communist experience in Eastern Europe, against the cultural and social
struggle by those who fled to exil in countries like Australia, the US
and Canada. The novel is an exploration of the meaning of freedom and,
again, the measure of historical fact against official history.