The Secret River - Kate Grenville

Title: The Secret River
Author: Kate Grenville
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback
First Published: 2005
ISBN: 1-921145-25-0

Category: Australian Literature / Historical Fiction

Condition: Good second-hand condition with general shelf wear, light edge wear, and creasing to the back cover. Pages are clean and binding remains solid. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

The Secret River is one of the most significant works of contemporary Australian historical fiction. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the novel explores early colonial Australia through the story of William Thornhill, a former London convict transported to New South Wales in the early nineteenth century.

As Thornhill attempts to build a life for his family along the Hawkesbury River, tensions grow between settlers and the Aboriginal people already living on the land. Drawing on research into her own family history, Kate Grenville creates a deeply human and morally complex novel about survival, fear, belonging, violence, and the foundations of colonial Australia.