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said "The entertaining story swings along, a happy way to discuss the convict system and its various unsavory off- shoots and the efforts to control these evils. Occasionally, seeming to be steeped in history, the author halts the narrative to add a slab that holds up the movement for a short space."
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said "As ever, Mr. Timms sets his characters against an authentically historic background, in which convictism and its related sordid evils are contrasted with the high ideals of the visionaries and the gaiety of the society of that era. "
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said "Taken at its highest level, the book is a prettv thin story superimposed on pretty thick history; but its total effect is of a very lively picture of Sydney in the days of Governor Bourke."
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The novel was dramatised again for radio in 1953. These episodes went for one hour. The adaptation was done by Kathleen Carroll who had also adapted Timm's
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The novel was serialised for radio in 1951, with Peter Woodruff reading out sections of the novel over fifteen minute episodes.
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of Australian historical novels, and shifts the action to New South Wales.
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It was popular, selling 10,000 copies within its first year.
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is a 1950 novel by E. V. Timms. It was the third in his
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Index


E. V. Timms
Great South Land Saga
Angus and Robertson
The Pathway of the Sun
The Valleys Beyond
Great South Land Saga

The Pathway of the Sun
June Salter
"Life and Letters"
The West Australian
"Not on the Jacket: Census on Literature"
"Sydney History"
The West Australian
"RECENT FICTION"
The Age
"Let's Talk About Books"
"Historians in Costume."
"NEW MORNING SERIAL"
"Four New Drama Serials on UZ"
The Age
"The "Backroom" Girls of Radio"
The Beckoning Shore
AustLit
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E. V. Timms
The Hills of Hate

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