Description: Dark Tales from the Long River is an insightful, true crime story that brings to light the lives of early settlers in a new colony, the struggles and the excitement that they experienced, told through newspaper extracts and court proceedings.
Brief description: David Price is a Western Australian educator and writer who grew up in the small northwest town of Carnarvon. His first book, Dark Tales from the Long River, was published by Fremantle Press in 2020 and explored some lesser-known and sadder historical events of the Gascoyne and Murchison Regions. Now living in Perth, David continues to be intrigued by the unspoken history of his home state and committed to bringing sometimes uncomfortable truths into the light.