Hardcover book with a dust jacket illustration of an Australian landscape painting by Sidney Nolan from 1947, showing a pond in flat terrain, with a scattering of trees behind the pond, and orange light behind trees that could be the sun setting or riding, or a brushfire.
True History of the Kelly Gang
By Peter Carey
A fictional biography of Australia's folk hero, told from the viewpoint of Ned Kelly, as if he had left a collection of journals. Reads true to life, and a hard, but short, life it was.
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