The Spear Grinner

The then expatriate author's first novel in which an Australian administrator finds himself in a gangster-ridden corner of a British colony in Africa.
Born on the Northern Beaches of Sydney in 1922, a PoW in Italy for four years (the basis for his second novel 'Crumb Borne', 1965) during World War Two, appointed the UN representative in the Congo in 1961, choosing Somalia as his home in the 1960s 'because Africa was the country where he could live happier and follow his interests with greater zest than anywhere else'.

Publisher: Faber and Faber. First English edition
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Spots of foxing to extremities, very good in dustwrapper designed by Anthony Gross.


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