Identity - Long, Peter
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It's 1850 and New South Wales, Australia is awash with gold. Bushrangers are in the press, their names on everyone's lips: Ben Hall, Frank Gardiner, John Peisley, Dan Morgan, Captain Thunderbolt. They roam free, uninhibited, spending big in the shanties. The girls love them, these wild boys. Teenager, Larry Cummins, decides to throw his hand in with them. He'll think about consequences later. Bail the coach. Grab the bank's cash. Scarper. Take the bullets, the whips, societal stings. If you weaken you die... A tale of adventure, love, tragedy and redemption, touchingly told by Larry Cummins'…mehr

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It's 1850 and New South Wales, Australia is awash with gold. Bushrangers are in the press, their names on everyone's lips: Ben Hall, Frank Gardiner, John Peisley, Dan Morgan, Captain Thunderbolt. They roam free, uninhibited, spending big in the shanties. The girls love them, these wild boys. Teenager, Larry Cummins, decides to throw his hand in with them. He'll think about consequences later. Bail the coach. Grab the bank's cash. Scarper. Take the bullets, the whips, societal stings. If you weaken you die... A tale of adventure, love, tragedy and redemption, touchingly told by Larry Cummins' great-grandson, multi-award-winning author, Peter Long. Identity: Larry Cummins, Bushranger, is literary historical fiction inspired by a real story.
Autorenporträt
Peter Long has worked as a stockman, public servant, consultant, researcher and academic. He studied in Canada and holds degrees from University of Queensland and University of Toronto. His poetry has been highly commended in the McGregor Literary Competition and a long poem published in Paper Children, an anthology from that competition. He has been long-listed and published in The Stringybark and Sydney Hammond short story competitions and his collection of short stories long-listed in the 2020 Hawkeye Manuscript Development Prize. Peter Long resides in Brisbane (Meanjin, Turrbal-Jagera country) in Queensland, Australia.Identity: Larry Cummins, Bushranger, is Peter's second novel. His first novel, Steve Hart: The Last Kelly Standing, is also published by Hawkeye Publishing.