Full Circle

John Maclean is an extraordinary man whose life has come full circle. After winning silver in rowing at the Beijing Paralympics, the last of many incredible sporting quests that have seen him swim the English channel and finish the Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon, he realised he needed to confront his past and the road accident that had left him paraplegic at the age of 22 if he was to move beyond the physical challenges that had defined his life since.

In his remarkable second book, which follows his bestselling sports biography Sucking the Marrow Out of Life, there are lessons for us all: persistence, balance, humility, the value of community and friends, and, ultimately, self-belief.

About the Authors

John Maclean was born in Sydney in 1966. A near-fatal accident in 1988 left him a paraplegic. He has since completed three Hawaiian Ironman Triathlons, swum the English Channel, represented Australia at two Olympic Games and completed the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. Today John lives in Sydney and is a sought-after motivational speaker.

Lynne Cossar has worked as a journalist, writer and editor for Australian magazines and newspapers for 20 years. She has covered wars and famine in Africa, military coups in the Pacific and politics in South Africa and the United States. Her work has appeared in the Good Weekend, The Age, Sunday Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, HQ Magazine and Business Review Weekly. This is her first book. She, her husband and two sons live in Sydney.