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All That Glitters
First published 2021
In gold-rush Victoria, lawyer Jack Bradbury is asked to defend a man accused after a violent confrontation between prospectors and colonial authorities. His success brings him into the miners’ campaign against licence fees and arbitrary government, drawing the Bradbury family into the politics of a rapidly expanding colony.
Over the years that follow, the family’s legal and commercial fortunes become entangled with rural conflict and the Kelly family. The promise of gold gives way to disputes over land, policing and class, and Jack must decide whether the law he serves can deliver justice in a society changing faster than its institutions.
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