Facing The Flame covers drought and fire in the bush and the love of the land regardless of harsh times, just as we are currently witnessing.
I’ve just ordered Books 7, 8 and 9 on Kindle. And connection of the suburbs to sewerage – Go Gough!). If Blood Should Stain The Wattle, from a poem by Henry Lawson, is Book 6 and covers cults and their impact on society as well as Gough Whitlam and the heady days of the Australian Labor Party (when equal pay came into play as well as free education and no fault divorce. This is followed by To Love A Sunburnt Country, a nod to poet, Dorothea Mackellar, covering the experience of women from the previous books and their ordeals as Prisoners Of War in Malaya during World War 2.īook 5 is where I stepped in with The Ghost By The Billabong, continuing the generational story with references to Vietnam, the landing on the moon, and hippie culture. The Road To Gundagai covers the Depression years and includes insights into the travelling circus’ of that time. I’ve just stumbled across The Matilda Saga Series containing nine books commencing with A Waltz For Matilda, with twelve year old Matilda fleeing the city to be with her father, a swaggie wanted by the troopers, as in Banjo Paterson’s Waltzing Matilda, and including information about the Great Shearers Strike.īook 2 is The Girl From Snowy River again encompassing Paterson’s poetry and covers the period of World War 1. Not surprisingly her 2002 picture book, Diary Of A Wombat, illustrated by Bruce Whatley, became an international best seller. In 2016 she received the Australian Book Industry Awards Pixie O’Harris award.įrench has studied the behavior and ecology of wombats for 40 years and is the director of The Wombat Foundation, which raises funds for research into the preservation of wombats. In 2016 French was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to literature as an author of children’s books, and as an advocate for improved youth literacy. She was awarded the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. It was her regular appearance on Burke’s Backyards on the television twenty years ago that encouraged my own foray into keeping chooks in the back garden. French is also an author of numerous books on ecology, gardening, pest control, wildlife and hens. She is considered one of Australia’s most popular and awarded children’s authors, writing across a number of children’s genres including picture books, history, fantasy and history fiction. Jackie French is an Australian author who has written over 140 books and has won more than 60 national and international awards.
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