Title: What Next You Bastard
Description: Ken Hall is the quintessence of the ordinary Aussie bloke. But there is nothing ordinary about his courage, strength and determination. This is a moving story, but not a tragic one. It reads like a rollicking yarn full of larrikin gusto, occasionally angry, mostly very funny and without a trace of self-pity. One Hell of a good yarn

'One hell of a good yarn.' Sunday Herald Sun

'A distinctly Australian voice.' Canberra Times

'What Next You Bastard may well prove to have more layers of appeal than a mille feuille . . . a narrative packed with incident, villains and comedy. There's nothing of the victim in Hall. His mother was feisty and so is her son. A keen appreciation of the comic, everywhere evident in the story, with a capacity for lateral thinking that enabled him not only to hide his disability but to wreak a poetic revenge on some of his persecutors, keeps him dancing through the narrative. His is certainly a story that needed to be told . . . His collaborator McFerran has demonstrated just the right kind of literacy to tell the tale.'
Mary Rose Liverani, The Australian
Subjects: sickness, many years spent in hospital, droving, horse breaking, national service
Places: Brisbane, Kynuna, Julie Creek, Winton, Stradbroke Island.
People: Ken Hall
Time periods: 1953 and on to 1965