[Dreaming Billabong 01] • Billabong Ghost · Australian Rural-Lit
- Authors
- Shell, Ryn & Shell, Kathy
- Publisher
- RK Press
- Tags
- sagas , literature & fiction , mystery , genre fiction , historical fiction , australian & oceanian , mystery; thriller & suspense , literary , literary fiction , historical
- Date
- 2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.12 MB
- Lang
- en
This book is out of print.
Do you love a rural-lit saga of crime, mystery; resilience, love and romance? Award winning author Ryn Shell travels Australia writing Dreaming Billabong inland stories. Dreaming Billabong, the Billabong books for adults.
Cattle King, Alan Fife will not let go of the past nor his love for Charlotte. Harry is an apt pupil for his babysitter Charlotte as she reveals the dark history behind the small inland country town of Fife Springs and his family. But is she a real girl, an imaginary friend, or perhaps she is a ghost from a massacre at the Dreaming Billabong. So begins the best selling Dreaming Billabong series of crime, mystery; resilience romance and Australia.
Be warned, this first book in the Dreaming Billabong series tells of a dark period in Australia’s history.
This story is not for persons under the age of 18.
Set in the outback in the late 1940s with a flashback of vivid detail and description to 1882. Payback never stops! This is one of many themes interwoven into the haunting tale of Billabong Ghost. Australia itself is as much a character as Harry and Charlotte and the cattle king, Alan, are, and they're all equally complex.
˃˃˃ Dreaming Billabong stand-alone books have all been Best Seller listed. Book bundles have all been Hot New Release listed. ˃˃˃ About the Dreaming Billabong series.
Cattleman and heir to the Fife Downs Cattle station, Iain Fife, is of Scottish and Aboriginal Australian decent. The Fifes are a family you won't forget: Iain must rescue his nephew and niece, Harry and Emily, from his headstrong sister Lesley and his criminal brother-in-law Peter. His Woggan-Wandong family members, Guruwari and Koorine and their son Jarrah, mysteriously go missing. Jarrah escapes to the Dreaming Billabong. Throw in an inland country town and its characters striving to survive against all odds and Charlotte, the billabong’s ghost, and lives are changed forever in this Dreaming Billabong saga of crime, mystery, betrayal; resilience, love and Australia.
Each book in the Dreaming Billabong series contains an Australian linglo (language) reference at the back to assist non-Australians enjoy the story with full understanding. The story transcends borders, as crime, resilience and love are universal.
˃˃˃ Ryn Shell is an award winning, best selling author.
Ryn Shell is the crime fiction pen name of Kathryn Shell who is well known as the award winning artist, Kathy Shell, formerly of Buninyong Gallery, and the cover artist and designer of the Dreaming Billabong books. As Kathy Shell, the author is traditionally published in the non-fiction genre.
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