Richard Evans

Richard Evans is a journalist and an academic. He has worked on newspapers and legal magazines, and was a lecturer in journalism at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). His work has appeared in HQ*, *Quadrant, the Age, Overland and The Republican, and been broadcast on ABC Radio National. He is completing a PhD in history.

Richard’s first book The Pyjama Girl Mystery: A True Story of Murder, Obsession and Lies was published in 2004. His new book, Constructing Australia has recently been published by Melbourne University Press. Richard is currently working on First Australians with Marcia Langton and Rachel Perkins for Melbourne University Publishing.

He lives in Melbourne.

Books by Richard Evans

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  The Pyjama Girl Mystery

  The Pyjama Girl was an unknown woman, found dumped by a road near Albury in 1934. She had been brutally murdered. Who she was, and who killed her, become Australia’s greatest unsolved crime for decades.

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  Constructing Australia

  Constructing Australia tells the dramatic story of political turmoil, private tragedy and conflict that lie at the heart of three epic engineering events in Australia's history: the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Perth-Kalgoorlie Pipeline and the Overland Telegraph. Combining a wealth of rare archival images with a richly researched narrative, this volume presents the grand sweep of events and the human drama behind each project.

  Here is the scale of the vision for Australia's place in the world

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