Michael Ackland is the author of Henry Kendall: the Man and the Myths and Damaged Men: the Precarious Lives of James McAuley and Harold Stewart. He was educated in Australia and Germany, where he attended secondary school and studied German literature at the University of Cologne. Currently he is Head of the English Department at Monash University.
Prologue
1. Blood lines
2. The whirlpool of destiny
3. Trauma and its fictions
4. Whatever happened at PLC?
5. Love and music in Leipzig
6. 'A failure all round'
7. The Continent to the rescue
8. Reappraising England
9. A denizen of many worlds
10. Winds of change
11. Blackout
12. Towards the next room.
