Bevan McGuiness

Bevan McGuiness is a native of Perth Western Australia. He has worked as a laboratory assistant, a geophysicist, a factory hand and is currently teaching Chemistry in a boys' school in Perth. He is married with a daughter. When not writing or teaching, he divides his time between his family and wood turning.

Teaching Daedalus

Cornelius Monk - Mr Monk to staff and students alike - good teacher but just a teacher, seemingly born middle-aged. An enigma to all until a young girl cracks his shell and frees him forever from his personal labyrinth of guilt and self-doubt about his past.

Bevan McGuiness's evocative novel, set in the vivid scenery of Western Australia, takes the reader on a journey in time from 1970's hippies in a ramshackle cabin in the Outback to a modern high school replete with the staffroom politics and pupil's antics.

"An unusual romance, with a little mystery thrown in. I'm wondering if McGuiness will use the character Cornelius Monk again ... he has more to offer." S E Crawford

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