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William Thornhill arrives in New South Wales a convict from the slums of London. Upon earning his pardon he discovers that this new world offers something he didn't dare dream of: a place to call his own.\n\n\n\nBut as he plants a crop and lays claim to the soil on the banks of the Hawkesbury River, he finds that this land is not his to take. Its ancient custodians are the Dharug people.\n\n\n\nA deeply moving and unflinching journey into Australia's dark history, Andrew Bovell's adaptation of Kate Grenville's acclaimed novel The Secret River was first performed by the Sydney Theatre Company in 2013.\n\n\n\nThe play had its UK premiere in August 2019, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, before transferring to the National Theatre, London.\n\n\n\nThis edition includes an introduction by adapter Andrew Bovell, a foreword by historian Henry Reynolds, and music used in the original production.\n\n\n\n'The Secret River is a sad book, beautifully written and, at times, almost unbearable with the weight of loss, competing distresses and the impossibility of making amends' Observer on the novel The Secret River

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE \nWINNER OF THE 2006 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE\nLONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZE\nA BBC2 BIG JUBILEE BETWEEN THE COVERS READ\n\nLondon, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly.\n\nHis sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. Soon Thornhill, a man no better or worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his life.

Shielded from emotional and physical abuse by layers of fat, Lilian struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian father and her elegant but ineffectual mother. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the family's upper-crust Australian world.\n\nLilian Una Singer starts life at the beginning of the twentieth century as the daughter of a prosperous middle-class Australian family. She ends it as a cheerfully eccentric bag-lady living on the streets, quoting Shakespeare. This book traces the progress of her life's journey, and why she made the choices she did. She's a person large in spirit as well as body, who wants to invent her own story, rather than allow it to be invented for her. Life presents her with many obstacles including the sinister advances of her father - but in spite of this she succeeds. Triumphantly she makes her life her own, savouring every moment with the reminder that 'everything matters'.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION - the new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction winner and Man Booker prize-shortlisted author of The Secret River\n\nIt is 1788. When twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth marries the arrogant and hot-headed soldier John Macarthur, she soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Forced to travel with him to New South Wales, she arrives to find Sydney Town a brutal, dusty, hungry place of makeshift shelters, failing crops, scheming and rumours. All her life she has learned to fold herself up small. Now, in the vast landscapes of an unknown continent, Elizabeth has to discover a strength she never imagined, and passions she could never express.\n\nInspired by the real life of a remarkable woman, this is an extraordinarily rich, beautifully wrought novel of resilience, courage and the mystery of human desire.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE \nWINNER OF THE 2006 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE\nLONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZE\nA BBC2 BIG JUBILEE BETWEEN THE COVERS READ\n\nLondon, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly.\n\nHis sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. Soon Thornhill, a man no better or worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his life.

William Thornhill arrives in New South Wales a convict from the slums of London. Upon earning his pardon he discovers that this new world offers something he didn't dare dream of: a place to call his own.\n\n\n\nBut as he plants a crop and lays claim to the soil on the banks of the Hawkesbury River, he finds that this land is not his to take. Its ancient custodians are the Dharug people.\n\n\n\nA deeply moving and unflinching journey into Australia's dark history, Andrew Bovell's adaptation of Kate Grenville's acclaimed novel The Secret River was first performed by the Sydney Theatre Company in 2013.\n\n\n\nThe play had its UK premiere in August 2019, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, before transferring to the National Theatre, London.\n\n\n\nThis edition includes an introduction by adapter Andrew Bovell, a foreword by historian Henry Reynolds, and music used in the original production.\n\n\n\n'The Secret River is a sad book, beautifully written and, at times, almost unbearable with the weight of loss, competing distresses and the impossibility of making amends' Observer on the novel The Secret River

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION - the new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction winner and Man Booker prize-shortlisted author of The Secret River\n\nIt is 1788. When twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth marries the arrogant and hot-headed soldier John Macarthur, she soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Forced to travel with him to New South Wales, she arrives to find Sydney Town a brutal, dusty, hungry place of makeshift shelters, failing crops, scheming and rumours. All her life she has learned to fold herself up small. Now, in the vast landscapes of an unknown continent, Elizabeth has to discover a strength she never imagined, and passions she could never express.\n\nInspired by the real life of a remarkable woman, this is an extraordinarily rich, beautifully wrought novel of resilience, courage and the mystery of human desire.

Shielded from emotional and physical abuse by layers of fat, Lilian struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian father and her elegant but ineffectual mother. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the family's upper-crust Australian world.\n\nLilian Una Singer starts life at the beginning of the twentieth century as the daughter of a prosperous middle-class Australian family. She ends it as a cheerfully eccentric bag-lady living on the streets, quoting Shakespeare. This book traces the progress of her life's journey, and why she made the choices she did. She's a person large in spirit as well as body, who wants to invent her own story, rather than allow it to be invented for her. Life presents her with many obstacles including the sinister advances of her father - but in spite of this she succeeds. Triumphantly she makes her life her own, savouring every moment with the reminder that 'everything matters'.

'Clear, authentic and utterly engaging . . . it is as successful as it is authentic' Independent on Sunday\n\nBorn to an unhappy marriage and into a deeply sexist society, Nance Russell worked hard for everything she had, and while the world changed around her, she went on to university, to opening businesses and raising a family. One Life is Nance's story - and many other women's too - beautifully captured by her daughter, the bestselling novelist Kate Grenville. Kate draws on the tales passed down to her to create an evocative portrait of life in twentieth-century rural Australia, and a deeply intimate and caring homage to a mother.

'Clear, authentic and utterly engaging . . . it is as successful as it is authentic' Independent on Sunday\n\nBorn to an unhappy marriage and into a deeply sexist society, Nance Russell worked hard for everything she had, and while the world changed around her, she went on to university, to opening businesses and raising a family. One Life is Nance's story - and many other women's too - beautifully captured by her daughter, the bestselling novelist Kate Grenville. Kate draws on the tales passed down to her to create an evocative portrait of life in twentieth-century rural Australia, and a deeply intimate and caring homage to a mother.

In 1788 Daniel Rooke sets out on a journey that will change the course of his life. As a lieutenant in the First Fleet, he lands on the wild and unknown shores of New South Wales. There he sets up an observatory to chart the stars. But this country will prove far more revelatory than the skies above.\n\nBased on real events, The Lieutenant tells the unforgettable story of Rooke's connection to an Aboriginal child - a remarkable friendship that resonates across the oceans and the centuries.

In 1788 Daniel Rooke sets out on a journey that will change the course of his life. As a lieutenant in the First Fleet, he lands on the wild and unknown shores of New South Wales. There he sets up an observatory to chart the stars. But this country will prove far more revelatory than the skies above.\n\nBased on real events, The Lieutenant tells the unforgettable story of Rooke's connection to an Aboriginal child - a remarkable friendship that resonates across the oceans and the centuries.

Sarah and Jack have never doubted that they are made for each other.\n\nBut there is someone in Sarah's family who will not tolerate the relationship.\n\nThe reason lies in both the past and the present, and it will take Sarah across an ocean to a place she never imagined she would be.\n\nKate Grenville takes us back to the Australia of The Secret River in this novel about love, tangled histories and how it matters to keep stories alive.

Durante la ristrutturazione di una residenza storica di Sydney, viene rinvenuta una scatola di latta incastrata dietro una trave del sottotetto. La scatola, piena di vecchi fogli quasi illeggibili, contiene le memorie di Elizabeth Macarthur, moglie di John Macarthur, passato alla storia come primo colono e padre dell’industria laniera australiana. Il ritrovamento è eccezionale, perché svela ciò che nessun documento della storiografia ufficiale osa raccontare: la vita di una donna straordinaria, capace di amministrare un’azienda agricola enorme, allevando pecore da lana pregiata e gestendo una manodopera composta da galeotti abbrutiti. Gelosamente conservate, sottratte alla furia di un mondo in cui il ruolo della donna si perdeva in un desolante nulla, le memorie diventano la finestra attraverso cui è possibile affacciarsi su un’esistenza non comune. Elizabeth nasce nel 1766, figlia di un agricoltore del piccolo villaggio di Bridgerule, nel Devon. Ancora bambina, viene accolta nella casa del pastore, dove cresce in modo analogo a quello della quasi contemporanea Jane Austen. È qui che incontra e sposa il sottufficiale John Macarthur, un uomo irrequieto e sgradevole. Un anno dopo i due sposi, con il figlio in fasce, salpano verso la colonia penale del Nuovo Galles del Sud, appena istituita: poco piú di due granelli d’Inghilterra in mezzo a incalcolabili miglia di terra selvaggia.