Bernard

I’m a long time fan, and greatly enjoy your books; However in your historical fiction I’m wondering why no stories of the frontier wars in Australia.

I don’t mean the Ned Kelly type story of Irish Roman Catholic goes bad under weight of Protestant Irish policing, but more the stoies of people like Harry Nanya (Aboriginal rebel of the SW Riverina, or Mary Avoca who was lost from his mob and became a loved carer of a motherless child on an isolated station.

In Australia (and New Zealand for that matter) we have the struggles between indigenous and invaders (colonizers). The Rogues who became statesmen and politicians, and the convicts who started commercial empires.

Might not get the reading public’s attention like Waterloo or the American Civil War, but it was an equally vital struggle, with lives lost, changed, destroyed and remembered.

No civil war or national armies, but battles, struggles, humanity on a smaller scale in a vast landscape.

Jim