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Trevor Shearston

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English

Allen & Unwin
01 August 2013

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

It is 1865. For three years Ben Hall and the men riding with him have been lords of every road in mid-western New South Wales from Bathurst to Goulburn, Lambing Flat to Forbes.

But with the Harbourers' Act made law, coach escorts armed now with the new Colt revolving rifle, and mailbags more often containing cheques than banknotes, being game is no longer enough. The road of negotiated surrender is closed.

Jack Gilbert has shot dead a police sergeant at Jugiong. Constable Nelson, father of eight, lies buried at Collector, killed by John Dunn. Neither time did Ben pull the fatal trigger, but he too will hang if ever the three are taken. Harry Hall is seven. Ben has not seen the boy since his wife Biddy left to live with another man, taking Harry with her. The need to see his son, to be in some way a father again, has grown urgent.

But how much time is left before the need to give the game away and disappear becomes the greater urgency? A spare, epic work of haunting beauty that breathes life back into legend and confirms Shearston as one of Australia's finest writers.

"Trevor Shearston presents a fresh view of bushranger Ben Hall in this spare and beautifully written novel." ~ Michael Jongen (The Newtown Review of Books)

By: Trevor Shearston
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 462g
ISBN: 9781743315217
ISBN 10: 174331521X
Publication Date: 01 August 2013
Recommended Age: From
Audience: General/trade , General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Trevor Shearston is the author of Something in the Blood (UQP, 1979); Sticks That Kill (UQP, 1983); White Lies (UQP, 1986); Concertinas (Bantam Books, 1988); A Straight Young Back (Flamingo, 2000) and Dead Birds (HarperCollins, 2007). He lives in Katoomba, NSW with his family.