Standfast (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781720580058)

Edward T. Skuse, known to his friends as Ted and by the children he teaches as Mr. Ted, was born in Gisborne, New Zealand. He studied law in Wellington and Christchurch, New Zealand. He migrated to Australia in 1970 and appeared in numerous courts in outback Western Australia and the Northern Territory. After more than twelve years in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory practicing law, he settled at Mudgeeraba on the Gold Coast, in Queensland. He is active in a number of areas. Ted continues to practice law and has been a board member of the Queensland Law Society and a past president of the Gold Coast District Law Association where he is still active. He teaches scripture at local primary schools and is an author, a poet, a playwright and a singer. He has two children and three grandchildren. Ted has written two historical novels set in the 1970's in central Australia and Queensland. Standfast is the third in this series, following Killing Season (2011) and Transformed (2015), which have been highly acclaimed. In 2011, Ted was honoured by the state of Kentucky, U.S.A. when he was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel. In 2017, Ted published Poems from Down Under, a collection of 57 of his original poems.