Summary
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award.
In the early 1800s, out of the prison society of governors, redcoats, English gaolers, Irish convicts, and the few free settlers of Botany Bay, no one had ventured much farther inland than a few dozen miles from Sydney. Or so it was believed until the escape of Desmond Kale and the vengeance of his rival, the wildly eccentric parson magistrate Matthew Stanton.
The Ballad of Desmond Kale is a broad-sweeping novel of the first days of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781741661392 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1741661390 |
| Author: | Roger McDonald |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2007 |
| Weight: | 451g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 132mm x 41mm |
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About The Author
Roger McDonald
Roger McDonald is a highly distinguished and prize-winning Australian writer of eight novels and two works of non-fiction. When Colts Ran, his most recent novel, was shortlisted for the 2011 Miles Franklin Prize, the 2011 Victorian Premier’s Prize, and the 2011 Prime Minister’s Prize. Before that, The Ballad of Desmond Kale won the Miles Franklin award in 2006 and the Adelaide Festival Prize for Fiction in 2008. Other prize-winning books include Mr Darwin’s Shooter, Shearers’ Motel, and 1915 which became an ABC-TV series.
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