The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Works By

Preview all
5 y separately published work icon Southern Cross Terry Coleman , ( trans. May Van Sligter with title Zuiderkruis ) Belgium : Elsevier , 1980 Z811530 1979 single work novel historical fiction

'Susannah King was the daughter of the English governor of the Australian colony. Nicolas Baudin was a French explorer. They found each other in a new land and forged a pure, passionate, perfect - and tragic - love affair.

'Amid the turbulence and wonder of the emerging Australian nation, unfolds this towering story of a woman who found a magnificent love, a love that would tantalize all of her days and nights and shape not only her own life but the destiny of a nation....' (Publication summary)

X