Good as gold
Smith, Justin2023
Book
From the acclaimed author of Cooper Not Out comes a novel set in the Melbourne Goldrush era that reimagines the running of the inaugural Melbourne Cup. Some stories are too good to be true … It's the 1861 and there are three campfires burning outside the gold-mining town of Mull Creek. At the first is Jesus Whitetree, an escaped orphan with no knowledge of his new world, not even his age or real name. He only knows he wants to find gold. Gold makes everything good. At the second fire is the Jack Pink Gang. Jack is a little-known bushranger who is a violent criminal by day and a nervous wreck by night. His mother - a notorious felon known throughout the colony as Mother Pink - engages the services of a bush poet to get Jack's name in the newspapers and make him feared and famous. And at the third fire is police constable Harry Logan with Mary, a young Aboriginal girl in his custody.
Main title:
Good as gold / Justin Smith.
Author:
Smith, Justin, author
Work:
Imprint:
[Melbourne, Victoria] : Michael Joseph, 2023.©2023
Collation:
347 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
97801437783320143778331
Dewey class:
F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1884582