Peter Fitzsimons
Peter FitzSimons is a journalist with THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD and SUN-HERALD. He is also a regular TV commentator, a former radio presenter (very successfully, with Mike Carlton on Radio 2UE) and is also a former national representative rugby union player.
Peter is the author of over 20 books - including TOBRUK, KOKODA, Batavia and biographies of Nancy Wake‚ Kim Beazley‚ Nick Farr-Jones‚ Les Darcy, Steve Waugh and John Eales, and is Australia's biggest-selling non-fiction author of the last ten years. Earlier this year, Peter was named a Member of the Order of Australia for service to literature as a biographer, sports journalist and commentator, and to the community through contributions to conservation, disability care, social welfare and sporting organisations. He lives with his wife, Lisa Wilkinson, and their three children in Sydney.
News and Blog
Random House is thrilled to reveal that we have finalists across eight categories in the 2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). The ABIAs recognise the best Australian authors, books, distributors, booksellers and publishers from the past year. Random House is a finalist in the Publisher of the Year and Distributor of the Year categories, while we have taken out all three finalist...
As the year is drawing to a close, it's only right that we look back on some of the most memorable books of the year. Here is a list Top Ten of bestselling books of 2011. Does your favourite appear on the list? All Book Author 1 INHERITANCE...
Videos
- Open House @ Random With Peter Fitzsimons Part 2
- Open House @ Random With Peter Fitzsimons Part 1
- Peter Fitzsimons' Batavia Writing Competition
- Peter Fitzsimons Talks About His Latest Book, Batavia
- Peter Fitzsimons Lightens Us Up With A Joke From And Now For Some Light Relief
- And Now For Some Light Relief Joke by Peter Fitzsimons
- And Now For Some Light Relief Joke From Author Peter Fitzsimons
- Peter Fitzsimons Tells A Joke From And Now For Some Light Relief
- Australians For Australian Books: Peter Fitzsimons
Books by Peter Fitzsimons
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Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen
by Peter FitzSimonsPublished: 01/11/2011
The story of Australia’s most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar exploration: Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton
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And Now For Some Light Relief...The Genuinely Funny Joke Book
by Peter FitzSimonsPublished: 02/11/2009
Australia’s best-selling author’s favourite wisecracks, tall tales and rib-ticklers.










