Carrion Colony

King, Richard

Original title: Carrion colony

first published 2002 Allen & Unwin, 2005 paperback 276 pages

With a nod of his head to Peter Carey's Jack Maggs, Richard King, winner of the 1995 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award, writes with tongue-in-cheek to give us a boisterous novel of just one of the beginnings of white Australia.'Yes, we are here to etch the faint name of England upon the dust. Now that six months have elapsed and we have humbled up a few small huts and crude buildings, erected this fine flag pole an...

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Carrion Colony ebook · 2010 · Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd · 9781741763423
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