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What’s Hot in the Media 22nd September 2008

Despite copping some criticism in passionate Australian modern history debates over her last novel The Secret River, Kate Grenville is back with more historical Australian fiction.

Published 22 September, 2008

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Despite copping some criticism in passionate Australian modern history debates over her last novel The Secret River, Kate Grenville is back with more historical Australian fiction. In much the same landscape as The Secret River, The Lieutenant is about soldier and astronomer Daniel Rooke, who arrives in Australia on the First Fleet and soon sets up an observatory. Inspired by the real letters of William Dawes, the novel tells how the construction attracts the interest of the local Aboriginal people, one of whom teaches Rooke her language

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1 Lieutenant, The by Kate Grenville
2 Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, The by Richard Holmes
3 Costello Memoirs, The by Peter Costello
4 Crooked by Camilla Nelson
5 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, The by Rick Riordan

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/09/09550/

This article from Thorpe Bowker's Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker

Tags: camilla nelson, Kate grenville, peter costello, richard holmes, rick riordan


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