AustLit
Latest Issues
AbstractHistoryArchive Description
'Though Ned Kelly popularly gets the title, Australia’s last bushrangers were Patrick and James Kenniff, horse and cattle thieves whose operations were at their height at the turn of the 20th century. In One, troops cannot pull the Kenniff Gang out of the ranges and plains of Western Queensland – the brothers know the terrain too well, and the locals are sympathetic to their escapades. A policeman and a station manager go out on patrol from tiny Upper Warrego Station and disappear. Sergeant Nixon makes it his mission to pursue the gang, especially, Jim Kenniff, who becomes for him an emblem of the violence that resides in the heart of the country.
'In the literary tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Peter Carey, One is a novel of lyrical beauty that traverses the intersections between violence and love. It is a love story that reveals the sometimes slippery nature of the truth. What right does a man have to impose his will on the world? Can the written law can ever answer the law of the heart?' (Publication summary)
Notes
-
Author's note: This book is a work of the imagination based on real events.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
-
Review : One
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , June 2016; (p. 41)
— Review of One 2016 single work novel -
Brotherly Bandits
2016
single work
interview
— Appears in: Good Reading , May 2016; (p. 34-35) 'We talk with Patrick Holland, a longlist nominee for the 2011 Miles Franklin Award for his novel The Mary Smokes Boys, about his new novel, One, which tells the story of the real-life Kenniff brothers. These two late-19th-century Queenslanders were Australia’s last bushrangers, and Patrick questions the extent of their supposed villainy.' -
Review : One
2016
single work
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 382 2016; (p. 58)
— Review of One 2016 single work novel -
Patrick Holland
Linda Morris
(interviewer),
2016
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 May 2016; (p. 30) The Saturday Age , 28-29 May 2016; (p. 24) -
Outlaw Narrative Deftly Narrows Distances
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 May 2016; (p. 18)
— Review of One 2016 single work novel
-
Book Review – One by Patrick Holland
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Booklover Book Reviews 2016;
— Review of One 2016 single work novel -
Outlaw Narrative Deftly Narrows Distances
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 May 2016; (p. 18)
— Review of One 2016 single work novel -
Review : One
2016
single work
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 382 2016; (p. 58)
— Review of One 2016 single work novel -
Review : One
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , June 2016; (p. 41)
— Review of One 2016 single work novel -
Interview – Patrick Holland and the Launch of His Latest Novel One
Joanne Peulen
(interviewer),
2016
single work
interview
— Appears in: Booklover Book Reviews 2016; -
Patrick Holland
Linda Morris
(interviewer),
2016
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 May 2016; (p. 30) The Saturday Age , 28-29 May 2016; (p. 24) -
Brotherly Bandits
2016
single work
interview
— Appears in: Good Reading , May 2016; (p. 34-35) 'We talk with Patrick Holland, a longlist nominee for the 2011 Miles Franklin Award for his novel The Mary Smokes Boys, about his new novel, One, which tells the story of the real-life Kenniff brothers. These two late-19th-century Queenslanders were Australia’s last bushrangers, and Patrick questions the extent of their supposed villainy.'
Awards
- 2016 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Fiction Book Award
- Western Queensland, Queensland,