Earlier works from John Bailey

The Wire Classroom 1972, Angus and Robertson
Set in New Guinea, this is a frank, funny, satirical, yet serious novel. It is centered on an innocent young Australian schoolteacher who, in the remote village of Wendi, finds himself confronted by such appalling characters such as Peanuts O’Neil, Mucker, Bendix van Kram, and the formidable Mrs Weston, the inspector from Education. The story of his decline and fall comes to a crisis, when Cromwell Jonathon, the indigenous assistant teacher at the school, becomes a leader of a strike on one of the nearby plantations.

How to purchase: Out of print.

The Moon Baby 1978, Angus and Robertson
An Unbrave New World, in which the old battles have never died, and the only poignancy is the love and hate that rages between brother and sister moon babies. Peter Smythe is a social misfit of the future - perhaps because Walter and George, his parents, spent the first five year of their remarkable marriage as lab assistants at Lake Peaceful on the moon.

How to purchase: Out of print.