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Cry of the Curlew

The Frontier Series 1

Peter Watt

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English
Pan Australia
01 September 2013
"The first bestselling novel in the compelling Duffy and Macintosh series, depicting our turbulent history as never before.

""The home grown version of Wilbur Smith"" The Sunday Age

A stark and vivid novel of Australia's brutal past.

An epic tale of two families, the Macintoshes and the Duffys, who are locked in a deadly battle from the moment squatter Donald Macintosh commits an act of barbarity on his Queensland property.

Their paths cross in love, death and revenge as both families fight to tame the wild frontier of Australia's north country.

PRAISE FOR THE SERIES

""A rousing and revealing yarn"" Weekend Australian

""the historical detail brings the ... 19th century to rip-roaring life"" The Australian

""Watt's fans love his work for its history, adventure and storytelling"" Brisbane News"

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Imprint:   Pan Australia
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 41mm
Weight:   495g
ISBN:   9781742613451
ISBN 10:   1742613454
Pages:   656
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Peter Watt has spent time as a soldier, articled clerk, prawn trawler deckhand, builder's labourer, pipe layer, real estate salesman, private investigator, police sergeant and advisor to the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary. He speaks, reads and writes Vietnamese and Pidgin. He now lives at Maclean, on the Clarence River in northern New South Wales. He is a volunteer firefighter with the Rural Fire service, and fishing the vast open spaces of outback Queensland are his main interests in life.

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