O’Grady does

it again

In less than 10 years the six book written by John O’Grady have soh a million copies and have created ai Australian record. A seventh “Gon , Troppo ”, has just emerged and wil add more to the O’Grady fortunes.

The latest vehicle for the O’Grad; wit is about tourists and tropica tourist resorts—although here th( language isn’t Fijian, or Hindi o colonial French but plain Australian And the Islands aren’t South Sea: but tucked safely inside Queensland’: Great Barrier Reef.

The story is slight—it’s about i Northern Territory cattleman driver out by drought to take a temporary job as a rouseabout on a Whitsunday island—but it serves as a vehicle foi the O’Grady dialogue, in whicl department the master has not los his expertise.

The narrative is in the first persor by a bearded character namec Whiskers (guess who), who for no apparent reason also appears to be working at the tourist resort instead of living off his royalties in Sydney There is a love interest (the NT cattleman, not Whiskers), some in formation about Barrier Reef waters and a lot about Australian tourists, most of which is believeable.

Studded with Australian idiom and illustrated by Benier, it will be wel comed by O’Grady fans.—JT. (GONE TROPPO. Ure Smith. $2.75.)