P. M. Lane is the author of Tin Town, Bermuda Shorts, World Cup Tales and other works.He was born in Ireland and has lived in London, Bermuda, the UAE, Malaysia and Outback Australia. He now lives in Australia, from where he travels extensively around the Asia Pacific region.His first short story Christobel was published by the Bermuda Royal Gazette newspaper and he has written both fiction and non-fiction books along with a number of short stories.He is currently completing KL Cop - The Golden Triangle, the first in a series of novels loosely based on his experiences in Malaysia, while TIn Town is in the process of being translated into Japanese.In addition to his books, Philip has written many technical papers, a number of political speeches, original screenplays and more than a dozen poems on subjects ranging from climate change to the wildlife of the outbackTin Town is a personal account of a move from sprawling London, to live and work in the remote mining town of Broken Hill, during the worst drought in Australia's history. The book describes life in the remote outback town amid the salt-of-the-earth people and stoic characters of far west New South Wales, who refuse to allow the fabled gateway to Australia's outback become yet another ghost town.The book relates encounters with insane artists, sporting flashers, raging dust storms, colourful local characters and suicidal kangaroos, against the harsh background of the Australian outback at its most extreme and brutal. Gone are grey skies, smart business suits and BMWs, to be replaced by relentless heat, Hard Yakka clothing, Akubra Hats and rusting Utes.Broken Hill with its rich history of mining, civil rights and bitter strikes, is the birthplace of the Australian Trade Union movement and BHP Billiton, the mighty mining conglomerate, but to us over a four year period, it was simply 'Home'.