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The story is written from the perspective of Jimmie Blacksmith, an Indigenous Australian man on a mission of revenge. The story is a fictionalised retelling of the life of the infamous Indigenous bushranger Jimmy Governor. Keneally has said that were he to write the novel today he would not write 'from within a black consciousness'. [4]
The Tomorrow series is a series of seven young adult invasion novels written by Australian writer John Marsden, detailing the invasion and occupation of Australia by a foreign power. The novels are related from the first-person perspective by Ellie Linton, a teenage girl, who is part of a small band of teenagers waging a guerrilla war on the ...
Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early Western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies; as such, its recognised literary tradition begins with and is linked to the broader tradition of English literature.
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The novel is a celebration of community and people's search for connection with family, the past, and the environment in which they live. [4] The novel also explores several Australian cultural myths, including the idealisation of the Aussie battler, the heroic figure of the ANZAC, rural and suburban identity, and the idea of Australia as "the lucky country". [5]
Edward Vivian Timms (1895–1960), better known as E. V. Timms, was an Australian novelist and screenwriter.He was injured serving in the Gallipoli Campaign during World War I and was an unsuccessful soldier settler before turning to writing.
A reviewer in Kirkus Reviews called it "Keneally's best novel yet, ripest fruit of an imagination that has been grinding for years in an effort to energize history within its fiction—sometimes head-on, sometimes obliquely, but never with quite full success." They concluded that the novel was "A grave and breathtaking book, a model historical ...