An inveterate traveller, Jim Ewing has worked on and under oceans as a merchant seaman, fisherman and diver. A few too many other vocations include professional sportsman (Australian Rules football and boxing), journalist, psychiatric nurse, stockman, oil-rig worker, bulldozer operator, overseer (Papua New Guinea), actor, playwright, farmer…

He has had several plays produced for stage and radio, his short stories have appeared in publications as diverse as Meanjin and Penthouse, and he has two published novels to his name, Dickloose and Two That Got Away.

When not on the wallaby in some far corner of Planet Earth, he lives in south-west Victoria.

His latest book Whiteish Fella is available for purchase.
$29.95 plus $12 postage and handling

Ex-garbo Giovanni O’Grady’s ancestry is Celt, with a bit of Italian and Viking dick dipped in. As an ageing straight pale male, he therefore belongs to a dwindling and increasingly irrelevant Aussie majority. Johnno (as he is known) holds some ‘unacceptable’ but often accurate views. Those which aren’t tend to be re-balanced every Monday by his philosopher hairdresser pal Ed Hedland. In Basalt Bay, a former fishing village contaminated by the ultra-wealthy, Johnno rents a caravan park donga and lives as a quite contented malcontent. Then comes an unwelcome medical diagnosis. Yet… unwelcome? Frankly, for a bloke fed-up with witnessing his nation’s wankification, an exit door has swung open.

Critical praise for Jim Ewing:

“Jim Ewing’s second novel Two That Got Away is an eccentric, diabolically un-PC comic caper featuring disgruntled writer and actor William James “Walrus” Rose. Ewing is a humourist with a great gift for the Australian vernacular. If the comic profusion of the prose can be as wild and foaming as the waves Rus voyages over, and the author takes an unseemly relish in rocking the boat, the book’s ocean of Ozploitation remains a bit of a hoot to read.”

— Cameron Woodhead, senior theatre critic for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald