The Coves
Published on 1. July 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-925591-27-9 (ISBN)
Description
San Francisco, 1849: a place gripped by gold fever, swarming with desperate men come to seek their fortune. Among them are former convicts, Australians quick to seize control in a town without masters, a town for the taking. Into this world steps an Australian boy in search of his mother. Just twelve years old, and all alone in a time of opportunism, loyalty and violent betrayal, Samuel Bellamy must learn to become one of the Sydney Coves if he is to survive.
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Language
English
Place of publication
North Fremantle
Australia
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
316 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-925591-27-9 (9781925591279)
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David Whish-Wilson is the author of eleven novels and three creative non-fiction books. He was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, but raised in Singapore, Victoria and Western Australia. At eighteen, he left Australia to live for a decade in Europe, Africa and Asia, where he worked as a barman, actor, streetseller, petty criminal, labourer, exterminator, factory worker, gardener, clerk, travel agent, teacher and drug trial guinea pig.David is the author of four novels in the Frank Swann crime series and two in the Lee Southern series, two of which have been shortlisted for Ned Kelly Awards. David wrote the Perth book in the NewSouth Books city series, which was shortlisted for a Western Australian Premier's Book Award.He currently lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, with his partner and three kids, and teaches creative writing at Curtin University.