Anthony Harkness

＂The year that I was getting ready to leave Maroubra, the Beatles were getting ready to leave each other＂; and so begins the tales of a South Sydney Lad.

Just a South Sydney Lad is a boyhood memoir about a family who loved a gamble, loved the football and who always walked ’briskly with no skylarking’ to Church on a Sunday. Exploring the Sydney suburb of Maroubra in the 1950s and 60s, the memoir tells a series of whimsical and nostalgic tales reminiscent of the era.

It was a time a time when rock began to roll, when the radio talked back, when a bush kangaroo saved more lives than the emergency services, and the national service lottery sent an Australian pop idol, Normie Rowe, to Vietnam without so much as a ’que sera’... and oh, ... when the world nearly blew up during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

As he revisits the memories of his youth, Anthony will tell you exactly why he was glad to be a South Sydney Lad!