Amazon has Jon Doust's adult novels on paper and screen. The first, "Boy on a Wire", was long listed for Australia's major literary award, the Miles Franklin. It is based on his five years in a prestigious boarding school - Tom Brown mixed with Holden Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye).His second "To the Highlands", is set in Papua New Guinea in 1968 when men were men and women mistreated. "Doust does a fine job of finding and controlling the voice of an 18-year-old, callow but intelligent, one on whom so many experiences are thrust and who is as far from ''neat, tidy and clean people like Rotarians'' as it seems possible to be. To the Highlands is a short, dense, assured and incidentally poignant performance that has been worth the wait." Peter Pierce, honorary research fellow and professor at the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. Jon Doust lives in Albany, West Australia, the last town before Antarctica. He moved there with his wife of 35 years to run, surf, grow garlic and write. His time had come. He always wanted to write but life got in the way and he fell in and out of many things until the deep south called and wrapped its arms around him.Some interesting facts about Doust:When my mother was pregnant with me, her father chased her mother out of their house with an axe.My older brother accidentally hit me on the head with a hammer while knocking larvae off a tree.When I was 18 and drunk an angry drunk man hit me in the face with a tree and knocked out three of my front teeth. I was arrested three times for under-age drinking when a teenager.I once had a very brief affair with a member of a well known Italian terrorist organisation.In Papua and New Guinea I got sacked from the Bank of New South Wales for destroying, while drunk in a Land-cruiser, a portico outside the bank manager's office, three metal rubbish bins and for filling three rooms with fire-extinguisher foam.While in England in the 1970s, over a ten day period I ate nothing but chocolate and drank black tea with honey.In 1974 I married an Israeli woman in a London registry office and we had no witnesses, so we asked the doorman and the cleaning lady to help out.At the age of 37, after half a flagon of port, I fell off my skateboard and broke my shoulder.In Madison, Wisconsin, in 1984, I entered the Funniest Person in America Competition and came last.In 1993 I stood for the Australian Federal Election in the seat of Curtin - came last - and in 1998 I stood for the seat of Forrest- came second last. I am still with a Dutch woman I met in 1976. I consider myself very lucky to be alive at this age.