The Lambing Flat
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The Lambing Flat is a novel
written by Australia
n author Nerida Newton
and was first published in 2003. It was Newton's first novel. She has since written a second novel, Death of a Whaler
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The novel is set in the mid-nineteenth century Australian gold rushes
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The main characters are
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
written by Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n author Nerida Newton
Nerida Newton
Nerida Newton is an Australian novelist who first came to light in 2002 with her first novel, The Lambing Flat, which won the Emerging Author category for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and was shortlisted for the The Australian/Vogel Literary Award...
and was first published in 2003. It was Newton's first novel. She has since written a second novel, Death of a Whaler
Death of a Whaler
Death of a Whaler is a novel written by Australian author Nerida Newton and was first published in 2006. It is Newton's second novel.-Plot summary:Byron Bay, 1962...
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The novel is set in the mid-nineteenth century Australian gold rushes
Australian gold rushes
The Australian gold rush started in 1851 when prospector Edward Hammond Hargraves claimed the discovery of payable gold near Bathurst, New South Wales, at a site Edward Hargraves called Ophir.Eight months later, gold was found in Victoria...
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The main characters are
- Ella, the daughter of a grazier, who grew up on an isolated, drought-riddenDrought in AustraliaDrought in Australia is defined as rainfall over a three month period being in the lowest decile of what has been recorded for that region in the past. This definition takes into account that drought is a relative term and rainfall deficiencies need to be compared to typical rainfall patterns...
Queensland property. - Lok and his father who come from China in search of gold. They are caught up in the infamous Lambing Flat riotsLambing Flat riotsThe Lambing Flat riots were a series of violent anti-Chinese demonstrations that took place in the Burrangong region, in New South Wales, Australia...
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