Greg Bainbridge, author of The Stones of the Trobriands

Greg Bainbridge
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The Stones of the Trobriands

A Snapshot

February 1942. Singapore has fallen. The Japanese are coming.

On the same day John Fullwood is forced to burn his rubber plantation on Bougainville Island, he learns his daughter has been taken prisoner by the Japanese. 

In his quest to save her, he will impersonate a German nobleman in Hitler's Wehrmacht, dine with Admiral Yamamoto on the eve of the Battle of the Coral Sea, and above all he will fall in love.
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About Greg Bainbridge

     Greg was born in Melbourne on August 15, 1949. He grew up in the suburb of Highett and attended Moorabbin Primary followed by Highett High school. During his teen years he worked at his father’s shoe repair shops in the Melbourne CBD, where he learnt the values of hard work and the discipline required to run a small business.

     Greg became an undergraduate in the Faculty of Dental Science at Melbourne University in 1967. During his years of study he worked two summers as a builder’s labourer and four at the CSIRO Division of Building Research. He spent much of his free time camping, fishing, bushwalking and swimming in Victoria’s High Country and at Wilson’s Promontory.

     After graduating in 1971, Greg worked for three years as an assistant dentist at both Berwick and Mornington. In late 1974 he took up an assistant dentist’s position at the newly-opened Southland Shopping Centre, where he was to practise for the next 41 years. In 1977 he acceded to owning the practice outright and became principal dentist. In 1982 he married Faye, and together they raised two children, Christopher and Sarah. Today he is the proud grandfather of Thomas, Rosie, Harry and Archie.

     Greg always harboured an interest in literature and history during his school years.  An avid reader, the desire to write was always high on his agenda despite him being committed to a science-based discipline and running a practice. In 1989 he read both volumes of TheWar Diaries of EddieStanton. Reading the diaries was a game-changer. They planted the seed of an idea for a book and he started writing in his spare time almost immediately. Thirty-odd years later it has culminated in The Stones of the Trobriands, along with three other yet-to-be-published novels in the same genre.

     Retirement has given Greg the opportunity to indulge his passion and spend more time writing. He and Faye also run a small holiday rental business on the Mornington Peninsula. He is kept busy tending to his two gardens, interacting with his four grandchildren and also volunteers part-time at a local Vinnies outlet.