'A genuine page-turner book of essays, full of intimacies, reflections and inveterate political knowledge'"Sprawling, stirring, like the richest of essays, essays on history played out on a canvas of heroism and tragedy, Beneath a Perth & the Big Sleep is like one of those iconic World War II black and white photos: a face of hope and tears, story's of small life, stories of large life lived under a Scarlet Sky end up mattering in a big way in both their immensity and purposefulness. Essays on contemporary China the US Britain and the Australian political landscape, I urge you to put this on your top shelf!" -Andrew Gross, The Author is an atheist born in 1967 in the Gold Mining town of Kalgoorlie a town that lies way out upon the high plains of Western Australia's vast interior plateau region. He has three other books on Amazon, "Sydney Hideous", "Work, Work, Work", another called "Awake I""Perth & the Big Sleep are like a tomb of fine wine meant to be imbibed Beneath a Scarlet Sky these stories & essays have everything-heroism, courage, terror, true love, revenge, compassion, and a wonderful re-telling of historical drama in the face of the worst human evils. Hoey shows us war as it really is, with all its complexities, conflicting loyalties, and unresolved questions, but most of all, he brings us the extraordinary figure of Churchill, Curtin and others, whose determination to live con smania-with passion-saved him." -Joseph A. Finder'A genuine page-turner book of essays, full of intimacies, reflections and inveterate political knowledge'"Sprawling, stirring, like the richest of essays, essays on history played out on a canvas of heroism and tragedy, Beneath a Perth & the Big Sleep is like one of those iconic World War II black and white photos: a face of hope and tears, story's of small life, stories of large life lived under a Scarlet Sky end up mattering in a big way in both their immensity and purposefulness. Essays on contemporary China the US Britain and the Australian political landscape, I urge you to put this on your top shelf!" -Andrew Gross, New York Times bestselling author of The One ManThe Author was born in 1967 in the Gold Mining town of Kalgoorlie a town that lies way out upon the high plains of Western Australia's vast interior plateau region. He has three other books on Amazon, "Sydney Hideous", "Work, Work, Work", another called "Awake I""Perth & the Big Sleep are like a tomb of fine wine meant to be imbibed Beneath a Scarlet Sky these stories & essays have everything-heroism, courage, terror, true love, revenge, compassion, and a wonderful re-telling of historical drama in the face of the worst human evils. Hoey shows us war as it really is, with all its complexities, conflicting loyalties, and unresolved questions, but most of all, he brings us the extraordinary figure of Churchill, Curtin and others, whose determination to live con smania-with passion-saved him." -Joseph A. FinderA short collection of quite beautifully written essays of commentary & opinion that primarily relate to an emerging Australian political/social point of view, but that also transcend the purely local into grander more globalist themes and relationships''Far-reaching and influential political & cultural essays on China, the United States, Presidents, The pacific, and historical letters of importance as well rememberance. Commentary & opinions at once brave and compelling.'