The Secret River Chicago Publishers' Award (1970) in its early centuries

in its early centuries

able to overturn the social order

"The venerable schoolmaster Gao"

here and here

With stunning new covers

The Secret River Chicago Publishers' Award (1970) in its early centuriesThe Orange Prize winning author Kate Grenville recalls her family's history in an astounding novel about the pioneers of New South Wales. Already a best seller in Australia, The Secret River is the story of Grenville's ancestors, who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people. London, 1806. William Thornhill, a Thames bargeman, is deported to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. In this new world