“Research is daunting, but its fruits can be deeply satisfying.”

‘There are very different ways of seeing a book. You have to try and find someone who not necessarily will love it, but will be sympathetic to its purpose. We’ll sometimes be looking for new, young writers with a fresh outlook. It really is a matchmaking process.’

Mark Dapin is the author of The Nashos’ War, a highly acclaimed history of the Vietnam-era national service scheme in Australia. He is also editor of the Penguin Book of Australian War Writing and another Penguin anthology, From the Trenches: the Best ANZAC Writing of World War One and a PhD candidate in history at […]

Mark Dapin is the author of The Nashos’ War, a highly acclaimed history of the Vietnam-era national service scheme in Australia. He is also editor of the Penguin Book of Australian War Writing and From the Trenches: the Best ANZAC Writing of World War One (Penguin). Mark is a PhD candidate in history at UNSW@ADFA. […]

Mark Dapin is the author of Spirit House, King of the Cross and Strange Country. He has been the editor-in-chief of Australian Consolidated Press’ men’s magazines, and is a hugely popular columnist. You’ve had a pretty varied career- you were the editor of a men’s magazine for quite a while, but you’ve also written quite […]