BOOKS ALIVE GREAT READ GUIDERugby commentator and highly successful non-fiction author, Peter Fitzsimons, has written a book about a great Australian boxer for the Books Alive Programme - 260,000 copies have been printed to be given away free as an incentive to buy any of the books from the 2007 Books Alive Great Read Guide..
The Ballad of Les Darcy is published by Harper Collins.
Good on you Peter!
This story from The Courier Mail. Pic also from that newspaper shows authors Tara Moss and Peter Fitzsimons
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