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'This novel is set in a remote British penal colony in the 1790s. It gives an insight into the settlement of hungry transports and corrupt soldiers, and tells the story of Corporal Phelim Halloran, and the demands made on him - by superior officers and, most often, by his conscience.' (Source: LibrariesAustralia)
Adaptations
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Halloran's Little Boat : A Play Based on the Novel 'Bring Larks and Heroes'
1966
Harmondsworth
Ringwood
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Penguin
,
1975
Z863393
1966
single work
drama
Notes
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Dedication: To Judith who nursed this poor herd of chapters to pasture.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
- Braille.
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Untitled
single work
review
— Review of Bring Larks and Heroes 1967 single work novel -
The Art in Fiction : Thomas Keneally
2023
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , June vol. 58 no. 2 2023; (p. 280–292)'The article picks up references to novelist Thomas Keneally’s interest in painting and tracks his uses of artists and painting in selected fiction. Visual art supplies style and thematic depth to Bring Larks and Heroes, is integral to the complexity underpinning the murder-mystery of A Victim of the Aurora, allows narrative perspective and structural coherence in Confederates, and connects with elements in The Daughters of Mars that echo the novelist’s positioning of his work across both Europe and Australia, and between commercial and literary fiction.' (Publication abstract)
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A National (Diasporic?) Living Treasure : Thomas Keneally
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Le Simplegadi , November no. 14 2015; (p. 20-27) Although Thomas Keneally is firmly located as a national figure, his international literary career and his novels’ inspection of colonial exile, Aboriginal alienation, and movements of people throughout history reflect aspects of diasporic experience, while pushing the term itself into wider meaning of the transnational. -
'Gothic Splendours'? : Recent Tasmanian Historical Fiction
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Island , no. 142 2015; (p. 20-26) Peter Pierce investigates recent 'Gothic' historical fiction set in Tasmania. -
Words, Sticks and Stones : Keneally, Literature and Social Impact
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , November vol. 28 no. 4 2013; (p. 90-105)
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Keneally's Triumph
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 May 2012; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Bring Larks and Heroes 1967 single work novel Williamson re-assesses Keneally's novel on the occasion of its re-issue by Text Publishing. -
Untitled
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , no. 14 2012; (p. 26)
— Review of Bring Larks and Heroes 1967 single work novel -
New Novels
1968
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 38 1968; (p. 41-43)
— Review of A Wild Ass of a Man 1967 single work novel ; Bring Larks and Heroes 1967 single work novel ; Dynasty 1967 single work novel -
Untitled
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 16 December 1967; (p. 14)
— Review of The Games 1967 single work novel ; Bring Larks and Heroes 1967 single work novel -
Untitled
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: Nation , 18 November 1967; (p. 22-23)
— Review of Bring Larks and Heroes 1967 single work novel -
Sociological and Historical Perspectives on Australia as Portrayed by Contemporary Australian Writers
1995-1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Commonwealth Review , vol. 7 no. 1 1995-1996; (p. 19-27) -
Making His Own Way
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Thomas Keneally : A Celebration 2006; (p. 23-28) -
Sex Encounters of the Strange Kind : Forms of Postcolonial Discourse in Three Australian Novels
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth , Autumn vol. 29 no. 1 2006; (p. 47-58) Messengers of Eros : Representations of Sex in Australian Writing 2009; (p. 197-210) 'The paper focuses on scenes from three Australian novels ... . Through an analysis of the representation of sexual intercourse by the three novelists, the paper highlights the sense of strangeness associated with the postcolonial, born out of the colonists' feeling that they do not truly belong to their adopted land and must force themselves upon it. Sex, which can be an expression of love, here degenerates into lust, violence or parody. It becomes an expression of the unnerving alienation which overcomes Europeans in a postcolonial context. Sex here as a struggle for domination is a paradigm of the perverted human relations which are inherent in the postcolonial condition. In his own fashion, and through a variety of narrative modes, each of the three (male) novelists illustrates the unbearable strangeness of being in an alien land.' (47) -
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Ancestral Narratives: Irish-Australian Identities in History and Fiction
Saarbrucken
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VDM Verlag
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2008-2009
Z1664583
2008-2009
single work
criticism
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Movies as a Mere Popular Medium
1984
single work
interview
— Appears in: Hemisphere , July-August vol. 29 no. 1 1984; (p. 36-43)
Awards
- 1967 winner Miles Franklin Literary Award
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Settings:
- New South Wales,
- ca. 1790
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