
Errol Flynn and the Sword of Fate is now available. At more than 130 pages with more than 130 illustrations — and a special Errol Flynn tour of Hobart, his home town — it’s the brightest book yet published about Tasmania’s most famous son.
Read about his mysterious ancestry, his colourful parents and his mischievous youth before he embarked on a life that became a legend both on and off the screen — and a family connection with the dramatic mutiny on the Bounty.
At just $A25 (plus $6.00 postage anywhere in Australia) it’s a bargain no Flynn fan will want to miss.
USA & Canada addresses: Errol Flynn and the Sword of Fate is $A25.00 plus $A15.00 for postage & packing.
UK & Europe addresses: Errol Flynn and the Sword of Fate is $A25.00 plus $A18.00 for postage & packing.

Errol Flynn is the most famous Australian in history. His name has passed into the language in a ribald phrase and almost fifty years after his death and almost a century after his birth, his fans are legion.

At Knocklofty we have long been aware of the intimate connection between books and booze. Few good books, and no amusing books at all, have been written by ascetics or teetotalers.

Since we stopped using quills, fountain pens and manual typewriters, the act of writing has become more abstract—symbols on a screen whose existence is mainly virtual.
The endless eBook debate grinds on and on and we do not propose to rehearse it yet again here: a host of sites are already doing that and the best illustration of the confusion and despair it provokes we have yet seen is this from