Miller's Luck

by Roland Perry

s/t: The Life & Loves of Keith Miller, Australia's Greatest All-Rounder

Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Professor Roland Perry (born 11 October 1946) is a Melbourne-based author best known for his books on history, especially Australia in the two world wars. His Monash: The Outsider Who Won The War, won the Fellowship of Australian Writers' 'Melbourne University Publishing Award' in 2004. The judges described it as 'a model of the biographer's art. In the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 2011, Perry was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia 'for services to literature as an author.In October 2011, Monash University awarded Perry a Fellowship for 'high achievement as a writer, author, film producer and journalist.His sports books include biographies of Sir Donald Bradman, Steve Waugh, Keith Miller and Shane Warne. Perry has written on espionage, specialising in the British Cambridge Ring of Russian agents. He has also published three works of fiction and produced more than 20 documentary films. Perry has been a member of the National Archives of Australia Advisory Council since 2006.

In late 2012 Perry accepted an adjunct appointment at Monash University as a Professor, with the title ‘Writer-in-Residence’ in the University’s Arts Faculty.

Reviews

[Marco]

Before reading this book, to me Keith Miller was a sauve, handsome man who was not only the greatest all-round cricketer Australia has ever produced, but a war hero to boot! But this book also revealed that Miller was a wonderful man to have as a friend, but honestly, a poor husband that was almost never loyal and a father who was hardly ever there to see his children. Its still a very good book, but it may shatter the vision that some people had of him.

[Greg Robinson]

a tremendous story of a real human who lived a full life