Recollections of schooldays often provide some of our earliest - and for many, happiest - memories. John Kinsella has gathered short memoirs from more than twenty well-known Australians, from writers to sports-people, to politicians and others.
Gary Bennett, Veronica Brady, Julian Burnside, Greg Chappell, David Fagan, Charmaine Green, Peter Goldsworthy, Marion Halligan, Rodney Hall, Malcolm Knox, Carmen Lawrence, Kate Llewellyn, Kate Lilley, Merv Lilley, Melissa Lucashenko, Brett McDermott, Frank Moorhouse, Justice Robert Nicholson, Matthew Orvolich, Peter Porter, Eva Sallis, Peter Sculthorpe, Rachel Siewert, Sam Watson Snr, Robert Gerald Wheeler, Ouyang Yu.