Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy

Michael Pembroke was born in Sydney in 1955. He is the author of Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy (2013), which was short-listed for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, and Korea: Where the American Century Began (2018), which was short-listed for the Queensland Literary Awards and the NSW Premier’s History Awards. He was educated at the Universities of Sydney and Cambridge and was a Director’s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton in 2017. Pembroke is a former Supreme Court judge (2010–20) and is now the Chairman of Red Room Poetry.