Charles A. Beach was an Englishman who wrote three works of fiction (one a boys' book) reflecting his experiences in the Australian region after a visit to Australia in the late 1850s or early 1860s. Bookseller Jonathan Wantrup comments that 'Charles Beach has been overlooked for a century but his claim to a place in the colonial literary canon is as strong as that of other emigrant novelists who came, saw, left, and wrote - Rowcroft, Thomes, Haydon, Clacy, for example' (Australian Colonial Literature catalogue; New Century Antiquarian Books, September 1997).
Beach wrote several other novels apart from those listed in AustLit, but they do not have Australian content.
