NEVER A DULL MOMENT. Kalgoorlie’s golden years through the seventies including life in the WW1 trenches.

Author, Ron Manners, says in the introduction “I hope you enjoy this quick skip through these selected events from Kalgoorlie’s formative century”, but there is far more behind this modest invitation.One suspects that the multi-faceted Manners may have initially set out to commemorate his illustrious family’s involvement on the Western Australian Goldfields, but the final result is a grand sweep of Australiana and life in Australia’s outback.