David Crookes David Crookes i(A30628 works by)
Born: Established: Southampton, Hampshire,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: English
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BiographyHistory

David Crookes migrated from England to Canada, where he spent 23 years, before settling in Australia.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Children of the Sun Rochedale South : Big Indian , 2001 Z922591 2001 single work novel historical fiction
2003 finalist Romance Writers of Australia, Romantic Book of the Year Award — Mainstream
y separately published work icon Someday Soon Sydney : Hodder Headline Australia , 2000 Z19005 2000 single work novel historical fiction 'The bombing of Darwin by the Japanese in 1942 was Australia's Pearl Harbor. Faith and her brother, Joe, escape the devastation and chaos aboard Joe's island trading ketch, Faraway, along with Joe's lifelong friend Koko, an Australian-born Japanese fleeing internment.
They are soon separated by the fortunes of war and face their own personal battles against espionage and injustice: Joe in a special army unit serving in the inhospitable wilds of the Northern Territory against a brutal, covert enemy; Koko in a POW camp against a society that appears to have deserted him, and Faith against the machinations of an ivy league American officer intent on keeping her from the man she loves, a Navaho Indian commissioned as a U.S. Army Air Force Pilot.' (Publication summary)
2001 finalist Romance Writers of Australia, Romantic Book of the Year Award — Mainstream
y separately published work icon The Light Horseman's Daughter Rydalmere : Hodder Headline , 1999 Z113929 1999 single work novel historical fiction 'While resisting eviction from the Queensland family property at the start of the Great Depression, Emma McKenna's father is shot dead. Emma is left destitute, with her crippled mother and twelve-year-old twin brothers to care for. But she is not easily defeated and fights back.
'In her struggle to survive she must overcome, heartless wealthy relatives, racial bigotry, child abuse, corrupt financiers and choose between the love of two very different men: one a wealthy Sydney lawyer involved with the New Guard, a paramilitary anti-communist movement, and the other, a persecuted and penniless left-wing activist.
'The Light Horseman's Daughter offers a panoramic view of Australia in the 1930's--the big landowners of the outback, the corrupt bankers who supported them, the well-heeled elite of Sydney's affluent eastern suburbs, the abject poverty of the victims of the Depression, the idealists who joined the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War .
'This award-winning novel weaves all this into a riveting story with the human element at its heart. Emma McKenna is a heroine to remember.' (Publication summary)
2000 finalist Romance Writers of Australia, Romantic Book of the Year Award — Mainstream
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