y separately published work icon The Jago Secret single work   children's fiction   children's   mystery  
Issue Details: First known date: 1966... 1966 The Jago Secret
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An Australian family on holiday in England search for the Cornish farm from which their ancestors came. (Marcie Muir Australian Children's Books : a bibliography : volume one 1774-1972 (1992): 372)..

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y separately published work icon The Canary Jacket Ann Shead , London : Collins , 1968 Z186675 1968 single work children's fiction historical fiction children's To a fourteen-year-old Cornish lad in the 1830's there seemed no harm in assisting his father and brother to smuggle brandy ashore. But when the gang is surprised by preventives, he is captured and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation in the penal colony in New South Wales. (Publisher's blurb inside front cover). The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (1993): 387 comments: 'The Canary Jacket (1968) tells the story of the first Richard Jago, caught smuggling, who endures the hardships of life in the colonies.' It is related to The Jago Secret (1966) which describes the Australian Jagos searching for their ancestors in Cornwall.
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