Murray Hall
About the author:
Murray Ernest Hall is the Great-Nephew of Ernest Alfred Hall, the soldier who’s journey you will follow in Walk a War In My Shoes.
A twice Commonwealth Games Silver Medallist in cycling, Murray represented Australia on numerous occasions during a prestigious 16-year period as a professional rider.
The sport allowed him to travel the world extensively and he was based out of Belgium and Denmark for long periods.
It was during his time in Belgium, living in and around the major battlefields of the First World War, that he also developed an interest in the life of his forbear, Ernest Alfred.
Following his retirement from the saddle, Murray had a long and highly regarded career as an administrator in the sport.
Now retired, he shares a semi-rural property south-east of Perth, Western Australia with his wife Tracey and a few furry friends. Walk a War in My Shoes was his writing debut.
His second book, Unlikely Barons was released in December 2022.
Both books were nominated for the WA Premiers award.
Walk a War in My Shoes, Unlikely Barons
Walk a War in My Shoes:
On the 25th August 1895, Ernest Alfred Hall was born into a pioneering Australian family that lived on a 313-acre property called 'Cloverdale' near the hamlet of Beech Forest, south of the Otway Ranges, some 200 kilometres south west of Melbourne, Victoria. As a child, it seemed he would be destined for the life of a farmer in a country that was just realising its independence through Federation, yet his path was to be diverted by the cataclysmic events that befell Europe and the British Empire.So it was, that one month short of his 20th birthday, Ernest caught the train to Melbourne and enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force. At only 5' 3" he was never going to be the biggest soldier in the army, but as his father said to him, "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, son, but the size of the fight in the dog." Like so many, Ernest Hall embarked for the war to end all wars. Unlike so many, his letters and records survived. This is his story.
Unlikely Barons:
Kat and Dodge only wanted to make a dollar building houses. But in 1990's Broome, Western Australia, life was more like Dodge's namesake of a town in the old Wild West. Money could be made, fortunes won, and lives lost depending on who you spoke to, and how you spoke to them.
When Kat is offered the chance to on-sell a few grams of uppers and downers, he figures it's easy money and not that dangerous for him or the users. Yet life can take funny turns and before he and his mate know it, they're the barons of Broome. Barons with no real plan and not a hell of a lot of options to get out of the game.
It's an unlikely story... but all stories are unlikely until they happen... This is Kat's story.
