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January 21, 2008
Tony featured in an interview in the Johannesburg Citizen in November 2007. They nearly got his surname right.
September 10, 2007
The new book Safari is available for purchase online in our shop.
August 1, 2007
First review of the new book Safari is here.
Tony was recently commissioned to write a piece on Aborigines in the Australian outback for the BP staff magazine. A copy of the article is available for your viewing pleasure here.
July 3, 2007
The new novel, Safari, will be in Australian stores from July 24 and available here online shortly after.
March 12, 2007
Tony is interviewed by the Sunday Times in South Africa.
Another review of African Sky by Mike Ripley, an English columnist for the Birmingham Post.
February 26, 2007
A stack more reviews have been posted here.
Tony puts fingers to keyboard for London's Daily Telegraph, writing a travel story about one of his favourite places in Africa, Windhoek, in Namibia.
Tony was the a Celebrity Reader for ABC Online's Book Club. Read what he was reading here.
November 4, 2006
Apologies for delays in fulfilling recent orders, due to a technical hitch and Tony being out of communication range in the African veldt. Normal transmission has been resumed and you can buy African Sky in the Shop. If you're still thinking about it, two new reviews may sway you. You'll find them here.
Tony's Blog is attracting a lot of traffic. Interact with Tony, leave a comment here.
September 17, 2006
Tony is currently in Africa but African Sky is available for online ordering in the Shop here.
July 13, 2006Tony has opened a blog, where you can read his thoughts on all sorts of stuff and interact. It's here.
Dymocks in Perth will be hosting a function for Tony on Thursday, August 17 at the Bluewater Function Centre from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. Cost is $35 a head which includes a light supper and welcome drink. Bookings through Dymocks stores or by contacting Ann on 08-9315-5568.
July 10, 2006
Tony's new book, African Sky, will be in Australian bookstores (and available via this site) from the last week in July. Here's the back cover blurb and watch tonypark.net for a sample chapter soon:
Rhodesia, 1943.
Paul Bryant hasn't been able to get back in a plane since a fatal bombing mission over Germany.
So, instead, the Squadron Leader is flying a desk at a pilot training school at Kumalo air base.
But one of his trainees has just been reported missing.
Pip Lovejoy, a volunteer policewoman, is also trying to suppress painful memories. When Felicity Langham, a high profile WAAF from the air base, is found raped and murdered, Pip and Bryant's paths cross.
Suspicion immediately falls on the local black community, but Pip's investigations unearth a link between the Squadron Leader, the controversial heiress Catherine De Beers and the dead woman, which throws the case in a new, disturbing direction.
What Pip thinks is a singular crime of passion soon escalates into a crisis that could change the course of the war.
November 22, 2005
Tony's most recent feature profile by Frank Walker in Sydney's Sun Herald is live at the reviews page.
September 29, 2005
A few reviews are now live here.
August 20, 2005
Tony Park goes (more) multi-media. There's a tvc (read: television commercial) airing on the Seven Network to promote Zambezi. You can view it (in QuickTime format) here.
August 1, 2005
The second novel Zambezi is in Australian shops. We're also selling copies via our online shop and you can try before you buy with the first chapter posted here.
January, 2005The small-sized paperback edition of Far Horizon is now in all good bookstores in Australia! Thanks to everyone who bought a copy of the trade (big chunky) paperback in the first print run in 2004. Welcome newcomers.
Late, 2004
Tony's first overseas deal has become official with the launch of "De Olifantenjagers" - that's Dutch for "The Elephant Hunters". Far Horizon has been renamed and translated for readers in Holland. Tony celebrated with a Heineken and a dozen Foster's.
June 24, 2004
Reviews from the St George Leader and West Australian are available for perusal at the reviews page.
May 23, 2004
More reviews added to the reviews page (logically enough). Aussie Reviews' online appraisal and a pretty good one from the Sydney Morning Herald too.April 5, 2004
A couple more reviews are in. You can view Tony's write-ups in The Weekend Australian and Who Weekly from here. Tony would like it known that, contrary to a view expressed in The Weekend Australian, any resemblance between his ears and that of a simian are entirely coincidental.
Tony Park signs a copy of Far Horizon for Gavin Anderson and Co Sydney honcho Brian Tyson.
March 4, 2004
The book is out and the first review is in:
QANTAS The Australian Way in-flight magazine
March 2004, P 111
Author: Paul Robinson
Far Horizon Tony Park (Macmillan, $30)
This debut novel heads into the Africa-with-elephants, modern-bwana territory that Wilbur Smith has had a mortgage on for too long. And an extremely successful safari it is, too. Ex-Australian Army officer Mike Williams is driving a truckload of backpackers overland through Africa, trying to forget the loss of the love of his life and a friend during an encounter with poachers in Mozambique. But those same bad guys are headed his way and the South African police want Mike to help nab them. Mike sees his chance for revenge and readily agrees, knowing he's endangering his clients. Toss in a nosy English journalist, a trek that barrels through the wilderness of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, along with plenty of wildlife, and the scene is set for action. Park knows Africa and the army, so Far Horizon reeds authentic with just a smidgin of poetic licence. Watch your back, Wilbur.
