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The Australian Historical Saga

The Australian Historical Saga follows successive generations of the Bradbury family from the First Fleet settlement at Port Jackson to the gold-rush colonies of the nineteenth century. Convicts, soldiers, lawyers, settlers and Aboriginal communities contend with a society being built through coercion, migration, commerce and contested land.

Beginning with Mary Murphy and Daniel Bradbury in 1788, the four novels move through policing in the former penal colony, divided colonial identities and the expansion of Victoria. Family relationships provide the continuity as each generation is forced to decide where loyalty, justice and belonging lie.

Reading order

Books in this series (4 books)

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#1 – A Far Distant Land

David Field

In New South Wales in 1788, the transport Lady Penrhyn brings more than one hundred female convicts to the new settlement at Port Jackson. Among them is a young woman calling herself Mary Murphy, while marine officer Daniel Bradbury is responsible for maintaining order during the…

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#2 – Eye for an Eye

David Field

New South Wales in 1820. Matthew Bradbury accepts a post as a police constable in a dangerous district of the former convict colony and is assigned to pursue a notorious gang. His investigation is repeatedly crossed by Nellie Chambers, an armed bounty hunter who claims that…

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#3 – A Colony Divided

David Field

New South Wales in 1839. Lose yourself in the pages of this enthralling Australian saga! Loyalties are torn in 19th-century Australia. Jack Bradbury has grown up around the local Mission station and formed a deep and growing relationship with his childhood friend, Lowanna. But his parents…

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#4 – All That Glitters

David Field

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…