The storylines are all based upon true stories and bushmen's tales, my family history and own experiences working with this amazing timber. I call them 'fiction based on fact' and they have been described as being '...more like Daniel Boone than Mills and Boon...'
'...The three works constitute a wide-ranging and extraordinarily rich saga of the last days of the North Coast's traditional industry...'
Prof. John Ryan UNE, Armidale, NSW
'...a ripper yarn...'
Reg Blanch, Walgett, NSW
'...really inspirational...'
Cecil Martischewsky, Brassall, QLD
'...you have a special talent and a God-given gift for writing...'
Merreyn Martischewsky, Brassall, QLD
'...your books are very sticky - hard to put down after you pick it up...'
Bruce Akrigg, Moss Vale, NSW
'...you have the whole family enthralled...'
Michael Cooke, Yass, NSW
'...absolutely wonderful - cannot put the books down...'
Suzie West, Pappinbarra, NSW
'...I absolutely devoured all three books and enjoyed every page...'
Maurice Mulqueeny, NSW
'...a fascinating story so wonderfully told...'
Cheryl Isles, Mt Riverview, NSW
'...Ridgway can be put alongside Frank Hardy, Darcy Niland and those others who catch the not quite desperate mood of the later 1930s...'
Prof. John Ryan, UNE, Armidale, NSW
'...I have one complaint - I can't put the bloody books down...'
Tom Hyde, Port Macquarie, NSW
'...an extraordinary tribute to red cedar, the building material of colonial cities... a fine and memorable proletarian history...'
Prof. John Ryan, UNE, Armidale, NSW
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