The possibility of an island

By Frank Robson
Updated December 24 2012 - 4:13pm, first published 4:00am
Away from it all … Middle Percy Island's idyllic West Bay.
Away from it all … Middle Percy Island's idyllic West Bay.
"Andy was ripe for the plucking" … John Morris (at left), Cathryn Radclyffe and writer Frank Robson at the homestead on Middle Percy Island.
"Andy was ripe for the plucking" … John Morris (at left), Cathryn Radclyffe and writer Frank Robson at the homestead on Middle Percy Island.
Shore leave … West Bay's "Percy Hilton", built by Andrew Martin.
Shore leave … West Bay's "Percy Hilton", built by Andrew Martin.

In the 1960s, an Eton-educated eccentric leased an idyllic Queensland island and settled into a self-sufficient paradise. Three decades on, he decided he needed to rescue England from God's wrath - and a nightmare began.

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