Listen to Wayne's interview discussing the Everest horse race and the book A Xmas Car Rally Puzzle on Weekends with Luke Grant on Sunday 11 October via this link or the book and the Picnic Point area discussed with ConnectFm's Ruth Le Bas via this link.
The African Lion Safari...
A biography of Wayne has been posted at the Notable People Project
Back cover blurbs for A Xmas Car Rally Puzzle
“I can think of nobody better than Wayne Peake to tell stories of the intrigues and complications of Sydney’s fascinating racing history, and the colourful characters who inhabited it. His stories capture the humour and essence of a time that so many of us remember with a sense of nostalgia and delight.”
Jim Haynes: Author, poet, historian, musician, 2GB broadcaster and long-lunch fancier.
“When Wayne Peake sits down to pen a full-length novel I think he should call it ‘Warwick Farm Revisited.’ If he draws on the style he has employed in ‘A Xmas Car Rally Puzzle’, which I read with a perma-smile on my face, it will have more than a hint of Evelyn Waugh in it. He strikes me as a writer who’s led all the way in his fiction debut at Kembla Grange and will come back for the features at Randwick in the Spring.”
John Harms: Age and Australian columnist, ABC television “Offsiders” panelist, author and humorist. Also a long-lunch fancier!
Warwick Farm racecourse
Purchase Sydney Racing in the 1970s via this link.
A full review of A Xmas Car Rally Puzzle is available at the Footy Almanac
and Randwick racecourse are two of the locations for A Xmas Car Rally Puzzle.
For a limited time only A Xmas Car Rally Puzzle and Other Racing Yarns can be bought direct from this site for the discounted price of AUD $32.99 including postage in Australia! You can order the book by bank transfer to:
St George Bank
BSB: 112-879
Account name (if requested): Jody Peake
Account number: 019695359
Or in one easy step via Paypal
Wayne Peake. Writer. Racing historian. Proud Peake of Peakhurst.
Chips Rafferty & Bob Mitchum are characters in The Great Trainers v Jockeys Cricket match.
The Sydney Jockey Club’s hard-nosed racecourse detective Rod Gallagher is a reluctant starter in its annual Xmas car rally. At the last moment he is also tasked with solving a cryptic puzzle during the rally to recover a priceless stolen racing heirloom. Oh and he must also win not to lose his millionaire girlfriend Chelsea on a bet. The rally takes Gallagher and co. on a one-day road-trip of 1960s western Sydney that includes racecourses, golf clubs, showgrounds, vineyards, pubs & the African Lion Safari, ending with a bizarre chase on the district’s showpiece homestead.
There are laughs and thrills aplenty in this Aussie slice of PG Wodehouse & Damon Runyon!