The Secret River

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  • Booker Prize Nominee (2006)
  • New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Christina Stead Prize for Fiction & Community Relations Commission Award (2006)
  • Miles Franklin Literary Award Nominee (2006)
  • Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year (2006)
  • Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (2006)
  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Literary Fiction and for Book of the Year (2006)
  • Nita B. Kibble Literary Award Nominee (2006)
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The Secret River

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ISBN: 9781841959146
Authors: Kate Grenville
Publisher: Canongate U.S.
Date of Publication: 2007-04-10
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.81
(rated by 22873 readers)

Description

In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported, along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. The Secret River is the tale of William and Sal’s deep love for their small, exotic corner of the new world, and William’s gradual realization that if he wants to make a home for his family, he must forcibly take the land from the people who came before him. Acclaimed around the world, The Secret River is a magnificent, transporting work of historical fiction.
 

  • Booker Prize Nominee (2006)
  • New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Christina Stead Prize for Fiction & Community Relations Commission Award (2006)
  • Miles Franklin Literary Award Nominee (2006)
  • Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year (2006)
  • Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (2006)
  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Literary Fiction and for Book of the Year (2006)
  • Nita B. Kibble Literary Award Nominee (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.