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Kate Grenville describes her quest to find her convict ancestor, and to understand his life.Tags
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I haven't read The Secret River I have to admit. But I stumbled across this book at my university bookshop and bought it purely because the blurb on the back sounded interesting. I'm so glad I did, because I couldn't put it down! Searching for the Secret River touches on so many things I've been thinking about recently, it was definitely the right book at the right time. Now I need to go and find a copy of The Secret River to read!
Good easy read that encouraged me to keep trying with my own writing. Interesting how much research of detail went into the book and how discovering that detail is so interesting. Was also nice to know that to start writing she just writes random rubbish just like I do. Problem is, I don't get much further than that.
Good easy read that encouraged me to keep trying with my own writing. Interesting how much research of detail went into the book and how discovering that detail is so interesting. Was also nice to know that to start writing she just writes random rubbish just like I do. Problem is, I don't get much further than that.
After reading The Secret River found this. Very readable if you’ve read the novel.
Interesting enough but I doubt I shall read any of her fiction.
How to research a family history but then write a historical novel.
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Kate Grenville was born in Sydney on October 14, 1950. She is a graduate of the University of Sydney with a BA (Honours), the University of Colorado with a MA and a PhD in Creative Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney. She is one of Australia's best-known authors. She is the winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Commonwealth show more Writers' Prize, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She will be at the Oz, New Zealand festival of literature and arts program in London in 2015. She also made the Indie Awards 2016 shortlists in the Nonfiction category with her title One Life. (Publisher Fact Sheets) show less
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- Original publication date
- 2006
- Dedication
- For Nance Isobel Russell, 1912-2002, who gave me this journey.
- First words
- In the puritan Australia of my childhood, you could only get a drink on a Sunday if you were a 'bona fide traveller'. That meant that you had to have travelled fifty miles or more. Around Sydney a ring of townships at exactly... (show all) the fifty-mile mark filled with cheerful people every Sunday. One of them was a little place called Wiseman's Ferry.
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- Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 994.402092 — History & geography History of Australasia, Pacific Ocean islands, Atlantic Ocean islands, Polar regions Australia New South Wales
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- PR9619.3 .G73 .Z46 — Language and Literature English English Literature English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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