Jock Serong has written extensively about the Furneaux Islands, particularly in his trilogy of historical novels, Preservation, The Burning Island and The Settlement. He comes here to write and think and occasionally to disappear. Just don’t ask him to cook you abalone.

Jock knows how to ask the kind of question that makes a place open up.

An award-winning author, journalist and storyteller, Jock has spent his career uncovering the people and places that shape Australia. His curiosity has taken him from courtrooms and coastlines to some of the country’s most remote communities, always searching for the details that reveal something deeper than the landscape alone. It is this genuine interest in people that has made him one of Australia’s most respected storytellers.

In conversation, Jock helps guests hear Flinders Island through the voices of those who know it best. Around a long table, beside the coast or in an unexpected exchange, he has a way of drawing out the humour, history and quiet wisdom of the island. With Jock, the journey is shaped less by where you go than by who you meet along the way.