mr White T-Shirt Man
It’s 1978 and life is falling into place for Harry Barnes.
Tall, blonde and handsome, he works as a junior bank clerk in a remote Australian mining town. He has great mates, a beautiful girlfriend and drives a classic 1968 Holden Monaro GTS. Weekends are spent camping and dirt bike riding through the dusty bush, or cruising the town’s main street with windows down and the latest hits blaring. But then, one day, everything is thrown into turmoil.
An extraordinary event brings him fortune, but it also fractures his friendships and sends his romantic life into a spin. Now, Harry is torn by his secrets, which threaten to shatter his perfect world.
Mr White T-Shirt Man is an intriguing coming-of-age mystery, set in the freewheeling 1970s against a great red‑earth horizon.
If only Harry could remember what he did in the summer of 1978 …
Read the reviews
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“Mr White T-Shirt Man brings back memories of the 70s: music, cars and girls. A great read. Thoroughly enjoyed.”
– John Doe
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“Mr White T-Shirt Man brings back memories of the 70s: music, cars and girls. A great read. Thoroughly enjoyed.”
– Jane Doe
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“Mr White T-Shirt Man brings back memories of the 70s: music, cars and girls. A great read. Thoroughly enjoyed.”
– Richard Smith
About Gary
Gary Barraclough grew up in far-west New South Wales in the 1960s and 1970s.
Today, he is a retired businessman whose wife Rosemary is constantly telling him to ‘Let go of the 70s!’ Still, Gary persists in listening to 70s rock classics on repeat while tinkering in his shed with his 1973 HQ Monaro GTS.
Thirty years ago, Gary was diagnosed with cancer and given five years to live. He grabbed life by the horns and hasn’t let go since. Gary has twice trekked to Mount Everest base camp, and together with Rosemary, has explored some of Australia’s most remote places.
Gary and Rosemary now live in Dubbo, in central NSW, in the same street as two of their three children. Gary’s cancer is still in remission. Intrepid travel is second only in importance to visits with their newly arrived first grandchild.
