Who is Billy Borker?

Billy Borker was the creation of Australian writer Frank Hardy. Billy was usually found sitting in a pub, bending the ear of anyone who’d listen with one of his many yarns. From The only fair dinkum raffle ever run in Australia to The needy and the greedy or The world’s worst worrier, Billy had a topic and a yarn for any occasion.

I’ve always been a fan of Hardy’s writing, his care for the underpriveleged and his acceptance of the fallibility of Man, yet all the while seeing Men in their ordinary lives. Billy was Frank’s humourous alter ego.

My intention is to write about life as seen from the peace of Oxford, New Zealand, not all the far away from the setting of many other Hardy stories – Benson’s Valley.