He comes from a place that resembles Queensland and now Professor Ross Fitzgerald’s shambolic academic and former politician Grafton Everest is back in a new satirical novel and you will never guess what he’s up to now..

Author Ross Fitzgerald’s shambolic fictional character Grafton Everest back in a new novel and this time around he’s the boss of the world.

Grafton Everest is the shambolic former Australian independent senator recently elevated to become the first Australian Secretary-General of the United Nations. You didn’t hear about this?

Well then, you need to read about it. It’s all there in Pandemonium, the latest Grafton Everest adventure by Ross Fitzgerald and Ian McFadyen. Everest is the protagonist of a nine novel series that began with Fitzgerald’s Pushed from The Wings, first published by Hale & Iremonger in 1986 in what many consider to be the bad old days of the Bjelke-Petersen regime.