Your daydreams are coming true: Joe Aston is penning a book about
Alan Jones, coming out in the latter half of this year. The book will focus on the pandemic period and time after that. If Joe Aston keeps his earlier style, it might be quite a read for those interested in how he slices & dices the last few years of QF leadership.
Simon & Schuster publishing director Ben Ball said Aston’s column was essential reading for its ability to break a story, and to write about it evocatively.
“The Chairman’s Lounge will do the same over the long form, telling the bigger story of how one company – and a few key individuals – bought the nation’s loyalty and then cashed in on it.
“Joe’s prose is as rare as his access and insight: razor-sharp, funny and fearless, slicing to expose. Like [American author] Michael Lewis, he has an eye for the telling detail and the mind for the big picture, which he’s finally able to show us.”
Alan Joyce’s tumultuous final few years at Qantas will be covered in a book titled The Chairman’s Lounge by former AFR columnist Joe Aston.
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