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y separately published work icon Ghost Gum Valley single work   novel   historical fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Ghost Gum Valley
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'This sweeping saga is set in the early days of the Colony of New South Wales and follows the adventures of Isabel de Rolland, an English aristocrat descended from the Plantagenets, as she is sent out to the penal colony to marry Marmaduke Gamble, in a deal organised by their elders. The debts of Isabel's family are paid in exchange for the respectability that her lineage gives the rich ex-convict Gamble family. From the inauspicious beginnings of their arranged marriage, Isabel and Marmaduke develop a grudging friendship that looks to bloom into something more. But the secrets of the past are destined to haunt them and the madness and darkness of their families threaten to overwhelm them.' Source: Libraries Australia

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Cammeray, Cremorne - Mosman - Northbridge area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Simon and Schuster Australia , 2012 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 533p.
      Note/s:
      • Published June 2013
      ISBN: 9780731815210 (pbk.)
Alternative title: Wilde Akazien : roman
Language: German
    • Munich,
      c
      Germany,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Page & Turner ,
      2013 .
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      Extent: 733p.
      ISBN: 9783442203499 (paperback)

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

Me My Shelf I : Johanna Nicholls 2014 single work interview
— Appears in: Good Reading , August 2014; (p. 12-14)
She’s worked as a journalist and magazine feature writer in Sydney, Melbourne and London. But in 2009 Johanna Nicholls published her first historical saga, Ironbark, which she followed up with Ghost Gum Valley in 2012. Now she is about to bring out her third novel, The Lace Balcony. Here she tells us about how she researches and writes historical fiction and about the books that have inspired her.' (12)
Fiction Barbara Baker , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 11 - 12 August 2012; (p. 22)

— Review of Ghost Gum Valley Johanna Nicholls , 2012 single work novel
Fiction Barbara Baker , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 11 - 12 August 2012; (p. 22)

— Review of Ghost Gum Valley Johanna Nicholls , 2012 single work novel
Me My Shelf I : Johanna Nicholls 2014 single work interview
— Appears in: Good Reading , August 2014; (p. 12-14)
She’s worked as a journalist and magazine feature writer in Sydney, Melbourne and London. But in 2009 Johanna Nicholls published her first historical saga, Ironbark, which she followed up with Ghost Gum Valley in 2012. Now she is about to bring out her third novel, The Lace Balcony. Here she tells us about how she researches and writes historical fiction and about the books that have inspired her.' (12)
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