Join entertaining speaker and Nyungar elder, Alf Taylor in conversation with poet and academic Dennis Haskell. In this autobiography, Alf chronicles his life growing up in the infamous New Norcia Mission, north of Perth, in the fifties and sixties.

Written with a sharp wit, Alf intersperses dark childhood memories with a Monty Python-esque retelling of the Bible, in which Peter is an alcoholic and Judas is a good guy.

As a child, Alf sought refuge in the library in the company of Shakespeare and Michelangelo. He writes with joy about the camaraderie of the boys but also notes that many descended into despair upon leaving. Alf is one of the ‘lucky ones’.

Alf’s father’s name was Rosendo Taylor and he married his mother Queenie Harris who came from the Fraser Ranges. Her Mother belonged to the Ngadu people from the Norseman area.