Robert Horne Robert Horne i(A86405 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 2 y separately published work icon The Glass Harpoon Robert Horne , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2020 20839184 2020 single work novel historical fiction 'When Matthew Larkin comes to South Australia in 1842 to join his brother James, many people say he is not cut out for life on the frontier. Charming and chaotic, he seems more born for poetry and the salons of London than the rough life of building a new colony. But it is his very difference that wins the heart of Lucy Bray, the smart and impulsive niece of the Governor. When Matthew meets eccentric lower-class schoolteacher and friend of the Kaurna people, William Cawthorne, he becomes enthralled by the culture of the aboriginal people and earns the disapproval of other colonists. While Matthew believes that Europeans can live alongside and share with the Kaurna, who have been made British citizens after all, many colonists have other plans. When the brothers move to their holding in the north of the colony, sheep are taken by aborigines while overlanding from New South Wales. Tensions between groups of colonists rise and shooting parties begin. It is a battle for the existence of an ancient culture and for the soul of the new colony. When Matthew is injured Lucy is desperate for news and, even though forbidden by her uncle, she makes an epic solo ride to the North to find out what is really happening away from the town. What awaits her there will change her life forever. This is an important novel about friendship and love, and about aboriginal culture, frontier violence and the meaning of the law.' (Publication summary)
 
1 y separately published work icon Places You Never Dreamed Of Made in Cambodia Robert Horne , Western Australia : The Book Reality Experience , 2020 19658033 2020 single work novel

'How well do you know the person you love?

'When his ex-partner becomes engaged to marry his own brother, Ryan Davey escapes to a job teaching English in Cambodia. There he meets the enigmatic and brilliant medical scholarship student Malee. But for Ryan the adjustment to a new family culture is overwhelming; and for a village girl of good family, the price of failure for Malee could be the loss of her reputation for life.

'When Malee attends a demonstration to support her garment worker sister, Reap, Ryan goes along to prove his devotion. But the tragic consequences will further test their strength.

'This story is set in the midst of the upheavals of a developing nation forcing its way into the 21st Century. Ex-Khmer Rouge cadres must live among their former victims, modernism challenges millennia-old spirit beliefs, and young women, who yesterday were destined to remain the centre of village life, today must leave to be factory workers or medical students.

'It may not be enough that two people are right for each other, the world must be right for them.' (Source: publisher's blurb)
1 y separately published work icon Love the Hurt Robert Horne , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2013 Z1935187 2013 selected work short story
1 Aboriginal Culturation of the Environment in South Australia and Excerpts from the Novel The Glass Harpoon Robert Horne , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 11 2013; (p. 131-147)
1 The Tomato Game Robert Horne , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Collecting Writers 2013; (p. 104-106)
1 y separately published work icon The Undergrowth & Other Stories Robert Horne , Charnwood : Ginninderra Press , 2004 Z1170316 2004 selected work short story Robert Horne's fascinating range of characters haunt the bars, porches and offices of Adelaide looking for answers to questions about themselves.
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