Roderic Anderson: 6 books

Well of Life is Roderic Anderson’s memoir up to age 18. Born into affluence until when he is four, his artist father becomes unemployed and the family have to survive the Great Depression on the little he makes from private commissions. At school Rod becomes interested in left wing politics and...

Free Radical is Roderic Anderson’s second memoir, from age 18 to 37. It opens where his earlier memoir, Well of Life ends, with his joining the Royal Australian Air Force in 1943, continues through his inglorious war service, having many gay adventures along the way, joining the Communist Party...

Real life Portrait is a literary novel ─ the compelling story of the author’s father, Wallace Anderson, a noted Australian sculptor from the 1920s to the 1950s. It focuses on art in war and in peace, following Wallace’s struggle to balance family responsibilities and creative fulfillment. While...

Five short pieces expressing ideas on some key issues.1. Writers: George Orwell's views.2. Tolerance: Freedom of speech.3. Science4. Sex and the Church:What the Bible says about sex5. Flying Doctor: Ideas about old age and death.

Set in Nigeria in the 1980s ,Omaka and Adaeze were on holidays at Mr Odali’s where they came across two suspicious night visitors. Little did the girls know that they would help rescue Omaka’s father from these criminals nor did Omaka realize that she had rescued Adaeze by taking her to Lagos.

Trailblazer is a novel based on the lives and times of the author’s great grandparents and their family. From their farm in Scotland in 1851 they migrate to South Australia by sailing ship, Join the gold-rush to Ballarat, where they strike gold, pioneer the timber and flour-milling industries and...