Murray McNair Murray McNair i(A105403 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon The Dreams of Eddie Skinner Murray McNair , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2011 Z1808596 2011 single work novel historical fiction 'Eddie Skinner has escaped his miserable fishing home town of Hull, is in love with Charlotte Stephenson and plays polo on the sandy wastes of the new river-mouth town of Fremantle. But when the Governor of the Swan River Settlement sends his North East Fusiliers regiment to attack the Binjareb Nyungar people, Eddie's world collapses. He loses his lover, his freedom and his dream of becoming a yeoman farmer. He spends years as a fugitive and a prisoner in colonial jails but survives it all to take up a lifestyle he could never have imagined as a twenty-three-year-old colonial trooper.' (Publisher's website)
1 1 y separately published work icon Captain Kreel's Contraband Murray McNair , Charnwood : Ginninderra Press , 2007 Z1384231 2007 single work novella young adult 'Shattered by his internment with the rest of the Vienna Mozart Boys choir in September 1939, Joseph Geinler is sent to live out the world war in a tiny Western Australian wheatbelt town. A personal dream and the help of some unlikely friends leads him to set out on a remarkable journey in an attempt to reach his homeland and end the Second World war.' - back cover
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