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Roland Perry has published 40 books, many of them bestsellers, in a range of genres from biography and politics, to history (mainly WW1 and WW2), espionage, sport and fiction.
His books on war include Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War; Monash and Chauvel; The Fight for Australia; The Australian Light Horse; The Changi Brownlow; Bill the Bastard; Horrie the War
Dog, and Red Lead (about a cat on HMAS Perth), which completes the trilogy of books about animals at war.
In October 2024, Allen&Unwin published The Battle of the Generals: MacArthur, Blamey and the defence of Australia in WW2.
His books on espionage are:
1: The Exile, Burchett: Reporter of Conflict: publisher: William Heinemann, 1987;
2: The Fifth Man, Sidgwick & Jackson; Pan Macmillan, 1994;
3: The Last of the Cold War Spies: Da Capo Press, 2005.
4: The Queen, Her Lover and the Most notorious Spy in History: Allen & Unwin,
2014.
Perry has written biographies on Celeste, the French countess Celeste Venard; US KGB agent, Michael Whitney Straight; British espionage double agent Victor Rothschild; and for relief, actor Mel Gibson.
Perry’s political books include Hidden Power—the Programming of the President, about the election and Presidency of Ronald Reagan.
Perry’s books on sport include the six works on Sir Donald Bradman, and The Changi Brownlow (sport and war). This was short-listed for the Australian Booksellers Industry Award for non-fiction (2010).
His other biographies include Wilfred Burchett (The Exile), Keith Miller (Miller's Luck), Peter Chitty (Changi Brownlow), Shane Warne (Bold Warnie), Sailing to the Moon, about great sailor, Rolly Tasker.
Perry began his writing career as a journalist on The Age Melbourne from 1969 to1973. He was based in London for 12 years. After five years making documentary films, he had his first book, a novel—Program for a Puppet—published in 1979. It was an international best-seller that was translated into eight languages.
His other novels are Blood is a Stranger and Faces in the Rain, and a trilogy of the ‘assassin’ series: The Honourable Assassin; The Assassin one the Bangkok Express, and The Shaman which have all been widely acclaimed.
Roland Perry has also written, directed and produced more than 20 TV documentaries. He has been commissioned by leading producers and directors in Australia and the UK to write screenplays for film drama and TV series. Beginning in London, he worked with leading British directors, Tony Maylam (Riddle of the Sands, The Burning) and Jack Grossman, one of the UK’s top documentary makers. In Australia he was commissioned by Tim Burstall.
Educated at Scotch College Melbourne, Perry has an Economics degree from Monash University (1972). His awards include: the Frederick Blackham Exhibition Prize in Journalism at Melbourne University (1969); the 2004 Fellowship of Australian Writers National Literary Award for non-fiction with Monash: the Outsider Who Won a War; and Cricket Biography of the Year [2006] from the UK Cricket Society for Miller’s Luck. (The UK Daily Mail judged this as ‘Sports book of the year’ in 2006.)
In October 2011 Perry was made a Fellow of Monash University. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia ‘for service to literature as an author’ in June 2011.
He was a member of the National Archives of Australia’s Advisory Council from 2006-2012. He is a member of the General Sir John Monash Foundation, a former director of The Spirit of Australia Foundation, the Melbourne Cricket Club, the Melbourne Football Club, and a coterie member of the Murrumbeena Football Club.
Monash University bestowed a Professorship on Roland Perry in October 2012 and he was the University’s first Writer-in-Residence.
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