Barry Coulter Books
The Northern Territory’s former deputy chief minister, Barry Coulter, has always been known for his straight-talking and wicked sense of humour. Now happily retired, he has written not one, but three books on his life in Darwin.
You are nothing but,
A Dreadful Mistake
my mother’s words to me …
when I was in trouble, or she was feeling down
Here’s an extract from the first...
Some people acknowledge there is a good book in all of us, some not so kind claim that’s where they should remain. I tested my luck with a three book series.
In the first book I detail my discovery tour that I went on when my 77-year old mother enlightened me as to who my biological father really was; I was 44 at the time in 1992. This was a gravesite confession which began my 27-year research into my genealogy and family history with three families involved.
I grew up in a cemetery for the first 12 years of my life, and I described the background growing up in this environment, 'Nobody slept over at our place but we always had fresh flowers in the house.'