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Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Blood Stained Wattle
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'Fiction set in wartime Australia published to coincide with 50th anniversary of attack on Darwin.'

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    • Pialba, Hervey Bay, Hervey Bay area, Maryborough - Hervey Bay - Fraser Island area, Maryborough - Rockhampton area, Queensland,: Maria Gardner , 1992 .
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      Extent: 211p.
      ISBN: 0646061712

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Reality Bites : The Impact of the Second World War on the Australian Home Front in Maria Gardner's Blood Stained Wattle and Robin Sheiner's Smile, the War Is Over Donna Coates , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 23 no. 1 2009; (p. 49-55)
'Threats to national safety have captured the imagination of few novelists: to date, only Maria Gardner's Blood Stained Wattle (1992) and Robin Sheiner's Smile, the War is Over (1983) have appeared. While both of these writers draw heavily upon military and political history to tell their stories, Gardner derives much of her material from a diary her father, Colin Gray Gardner, kept of his experiences during and after the bombing of Darwin, and Sheiner, who was a child during the war in Perth, supplements her memories of the period with letters from and formal interviews with those who were alive at the time.'
Paperbacks Stan Barney , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 August 1992; (p. 24)

— Review of Blood Stained Wattle Maria Gardner , 1992 single work novel ; The Ancestor Game Alex Miller , 1992 single work novel
Outsider Outruns Veterans Dennis Davison , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 March 1992; (p. rev 7)

— Review of Chief of Staff William Coyle , 1991 single work novel ; Flying Low : A Novel Geoffrey Dutton , 1992 single work novel ; Blood Stained Wattle Maria Gardner , 1992 single work novel
Outsider Outruns Veterans Dennis Davison , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 March 1992; (p. rev 7)

— Review of Chief of Staff William Coyle , 1991 single work novel ; Flying Low : A Novel Geoffrey Dutton , 1992 single work novel ; Blood Stained Wattle Maria Gardner , 1992 single work novel
Paperbacks Stan Barney , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 August 1992; (p. 24)

— Review of Blood Stained Wattle Maria Gardner , 1992 single work novel ; The Ancestor Game Alex Miller , 1992 single work novel
Reality Bites : The Impact of the Second World War on the Australian Home Front in Maria Gardner's Blood Stained Wattle and Robin Sheiner's Smile, the War Is Over Donna Coates , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 23 no. 1 2009; (p. 49-55)
'Threats to national safety have captured the imagination of few novelists: to date, only Maria Gardner's Blood Stained Wattle (1992) and Robin Sheiner's Smile, the War is Over (1983) have appeared. While both of these writers draw heavily upon military and political history to tell their stories, Gardner derives much of her material from a diary her father, Colin Gray Gardner, kept of his experiences during and after the bombing of Darwin, and Sheiner, who was a child during the war in Perth, supplements her memories of the period with letters from and formal interviews with those who were alive at the time.'
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