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Luke Slattery is a Sydney-based journalist, editor and novice Epicurean. He has spent most of his career in newspapers writing about the world of ideas for a wide audience. He has served as higher education editor at The Australian, The Age and the Financial Review, and has been the recipient of the Higher Education Journalist of the Year Award, the European Union journalist award, and the Australia Council's Keesing writing fellowship in Paris. His journalism and writing have been published in the main Australian metropolitan newspapers and internationally at The International Herald Tribune, the London Spectator, The Scotsman, and the US Chronicle of Higher Education; a number of his articles have been republished online at the Arts & Letters Daily web portal. Slattery is the author of two books: Crisis in the Clever Country: Why Our Universities are Failing (with Geoffrey Maslen), and Dating Aphrodite: Modern Adventures in the Ancient World. He is an honorary associate of the University of Sydney's department of Classics and Ancient History.
A riveting read. --Courier-Mail Short and snappy . . . It is exciting to see a writer of Slattery's quality take on the the extraordinary history of colonial Australia with such zest and conviction and present it, properly, as a story with universal human meaning . . . [a] fierce little book. --Sydney Morning Herald
