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The secret river

Author: Kate Grenville
Publisher: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Following a childhood marked by poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife and children, he arrives in a harsh land to a life that feels like a death sentence.
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Genre/Form: Historical fiction
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Grenville, Kate, 1950-
Secret river.
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2006
(OCoLC)643911010
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kate Grenville
ISBN: 1841956821 9781841956824 184195828X 9781841958286
OCLC Number: 62225901
Awards: Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2006.
Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Literary Award 2006.
Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 2006.
Winner of Commonwealth Writers Prize 2006.
Description: 334 p. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Kate Grenville.

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A dramatic historical novel set between the slums of 19th century London and the convict colonies of Australia. This book joins a tradition of grand historical action. It etches the intense light and  Read more...

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"'Kate Grenville has transformed an Australian myth into a dazzling fiction of universal appeal. It is a pleasure to be able to praise a true novelist.' PATRICK WHITE 'Here is someone who can really Read more...

 
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