The Secret River (40 page)
KateGrenvillewas born in Sydney.Her previous novel,
The Idea of Perfection
, won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2001 and became a long-running bestseller. Her other works of fiction have won numerous awards. She lives in Sydney with her family.
FICTION
Bearded Ladies
Lilian’s Story
Dreamhouse
Joan Makes History
Dark Places
The Idea of Perfection
NON-FICTION
The Writing Book
Making Stories: How Ten Australian Novels Were Written
(with Sue Woolfe)
Writing from Start to Finish
First published in Australia in 2005
by The Text Publishing Company
First published in Great Britain in 2006
by Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TE
This digital edition first published in 2008
by Canongate Books Ltd
Copyright © Kate Grenville, 2005
All rights reserved
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available on
request from the British Library
ISBN 978 184767 3534
Grateful thanks to the Map Collection, State Library of Victoria,
and the New South Wales Public Office for permission to use
‘An Outline Map of the Settlement of New South Wales, 1817’
by S.A. Perry
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