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Oddfellows

Oddfellows 2

by Nicholas Shakespeare
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Publication Date: 02/01/2015
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On 1 January 1915, ramifications from the First World War, raging half a world away, were felt in Broken Hill, Australia, when in a guerrilla-style military operation, four citizens were killed and seven wounded.

It was the annual picnic day in Broken Hill and a thousand citizens were dressed for fun when the only enemy attack to occur on Australian soil during World War I, took them by surprise. Nicholas Shakespeare has turned this little known piece of Australian history into a story for our time.
ISBN:
9780857987181
9780857987181
Category:
Historical Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02-01-2015
Publisher:
Random House Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Dimensions (mm):
201x132x10mm
Weight:
0.13kg
Nicholas Shakespeare

Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His books have been translated into twenty-two languages.

They include The Vision of Elena Silves (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Snowleg, The Dancer Upstairs, Inheritance, Priscilla and Six Minutes in May. He has been longlisted for the Booker Prize twice and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Shakepeare immerses the reader into a 1915 Australia as he tells us about a town under attack from within.

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Purchased this book with the expectation that it would be a factual account of the attack on a picnic train in Broken Hill. Instead it is a fictional account of the peoples and the attackers of a true event.I consider it to be poorly written with the narrative a little jumbled and not flowing.Do not recommend.

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