Grave Tales

With a background in journalism and marketing, Helen has pushed around film directors, worked for an AFL footy team, produced children's TV for Channel 7 and an Afternoon radio program for Macquarie Media, and edited community newspapers. She's also tried her hand at nursing, signed up to be a police cadet (and did time at the police academy), did a Diploma in Counselling, and lectured students in marketing. Helen is postgraduate qualified with majors in Literature, Communications and Media, and lives in Brisbane with her fellow-journalist husband, Chris, and Boxer dog, Hastings. Her Grave Tales podcast had enjoyed over 180,000 downloads.

Ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events are captured in 'Grave Tales: Queensland's Great South West'. Visiting cemeteries from Ipswich to Augathella, 'Grave Tales: Queensland's Great South West' tells the stories of everyday people who willingly or unwillingly, were participants in events that made local and national headlines.They may have lived in the same suburbs, streets, and even the same houses as exist now in towns and cities along the way, and finished their days in cemeteries in Queensland.
These are tales of early settlement, unsolved murders, love lost, mystery, tragedy, health epidemics, scandal and sacrifice. Grave Tales reveals more than the headstone can ever convey by tracing the tumultuous journeys that lead to these final resting places.

This is number six in the awarded and popular Grave Tales series, this book travels from Ipswich to Augathella including Gatton, Toowoomba, Nobby, Goondiwindi, St George, Roma and Charleville.