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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1 y separately published work icon Children of the Sun David Crookes , Rochedale South : Big Indian , 2001 Z922591 2001 single work novel historical fiction
1 3 y separately published work icon Someday Soon David Crookes , 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)
1 3 y separately published work icon The Light Horseman's Daughter David Crookes , 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)
1 5 y separately published work icon Blackbird David Crookes , Springwood : Big Indian , 1996 Z226510 1996 single work novel historical fiction

'Kiri is kidnapped from her South Sea Island to be sold as a slave in Queensland but is rescued by Chinese Australian gold miner Ben Luk. The pair endure racial prejudice and the plotting of several enemies, but their love carries them through their many adventures.'

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