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The Pioneers

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:42:05 +0300

This endearing 19th-century family saga follows the lives, loves and losses of one pioneering family and two escaped convicts as they open up the land in Victoria, Australia. This classic Australian story, which won the Hodder & Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize for Australasia, commands a place in the canon of Australian literature and offers a fascinating record and reflection of early Australian life and perspectives.

Working Bullocks

Sat, 20 Feb 2021 22:20:41 +0200

Writing for British publication The Bookman in 1928, John Sleeman declared Working Bullocks to be 'the high-water mark of Australian literary achievement in the novel so far'.

'It's the story of the people of the timber country in the South-West of WA and follows a young man named Red Burke who has a way with horses and bullocks but not people, as he is torn between two women and struggles to make his way in that world.' So writes Nathan Hobby, Prichard's biographer on his website. He goes on to lament, 'Sadly, Working Bullocks is out of print despite being one of Katharine's finest novels.'

First published in 1926, the Untapped edition brings this fine novel back into circulation. Hobby's biography of Prichard, The Red Witch, will be released in May, 2022, by Melbourne University Press.

Katharine Susannah Prichard's novels include The Pioneers (1915) which won the Hodder and Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize for Australasia,...

Intimate Strangers

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 00:05:33 +0300

Set in a thinly disguised but richly described Perth during the Depression, acclaimed Australian author Katharine Susannah Prichard's Intimate Strangers focuses on the difficult marriage between Elodie and her troubled war veteran husband, Greg.

As Prichard's biographer Nathan Hobby writes, 'The characters' ponderings on how to find happiness and satisfaction in life and particularly marriage are themes which resonate today as well...'

Intimate Strangers was first published in 1937 and adapted for television in 1981. Nathan Hobby's biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard, The Red Witch, will be released in May, 2022, by Melbourne University Press.

Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883–1969) was a journalist, short story writer, playwright, pamphleteer, writer of children's books, and a novelist. Her best known novels include The Pioneers (1915) which won the Hodder and Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize for Australasia, Working...