Professor Graham Seal AM is a prolific author of academic and popular books published around the world. His work includes the best-selling Great Australian Stories series, These Few Lines, a convict biography that won a National Biography Award, and The Savage Shore, published in the UK and USA by Yale University Press in 2016.
He is Professor of Folklore at Curtin University and is a leading international authority on global history and myth, his work being acknowledged with an Order of Australia. He writes well-researched history in a style that appeals to a general readership and blogs inconstantly at gristlyhistory.blogspot.com.au and elsewhere.
Graham’s most recent book was published by Yale University Press in 2021. Condemned: The transported criminals who built Britain’s Empire is a broad-scale study of how Britain banished its poor, its wrongdoers and its rebels to build and power an empire in America, Africa, India, South Asia and Australia. While previous books on this topic have been narrow in scope or academic in nature, Condemned is one of the first to embrace the full global story of transportation.
Some of Graham’s recent popular history books include:
Praise for Graham’s book:
“Readers familiar with Graham Seal’s work will know he finds and writes ripper, fair dinkum, true blue Aussie yarns. His books are great reads and do a lot for ensuring cultural stories are not lost. His new book, Great Australian Journeys, is no exception.” Weekly Times on Great Australian Journeys
“Informed, measured and very readable.” SMH on The Savage Shore