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y separately published work icon A Colonial King Hume Nisbet , London : F. V. White , 1905 Z273451 1905 single work novel
y separately published work icon A Colonial Tramp : Travels and Adventures in Australia and New Guinea Hume Nisbet , London : Ward and Downey , 1891 Z844896 1891 single work autobiography travel London : George Bell and Sons , 1898
y separately published work icon Paving the Way : A Romance of the Australian Bush Simpson Newland , 1893 single work novel London : George Bell and Sons , 1898
y separately published work icon Blood Tracks of the Bush : An Australian Romance Simpson Newland , 1900 single work novel

His novel explicitly deals with the massacres of Aborigines by settlers. It was less successful than his earlier work, "partly because inferior, but also because he courageously and accurately portrayed horrific mass-murders of Aborigines by police and pastoralists. The public was not ready for such honesty."

Source: G. K. Jenkin, 'Newland, Simpson (1835–1925)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, Melbourne University Press, 1988, pp 10–12.

London : George Bell and Sons , 1900
y separately published work icon The Woman of Death Guy Boothby , London : George Bell and Sons , 1900 Z799086 1900 single work novel mystery London : George Bell and Sons , 1900
y separately published work icon A Cabinet Secret Guy Boothby , London : John Long , Z799083 1900 single work novel war literature London : George Bell and Sons , 1900
y separately published work icon The Childerbridge Mystery Guy Boothby , 1902 single work novel mystery London : George Bell and Sons , 1902
y separately published work icon The Curse of the Snake Guy Boothby , London : F. V. White , 1902 Z799101 1902 single work novel horror

Set in tropical Queensland, Melbourne and Hong Kong, and filled with malevolence, murder, evil deeds and possession, The Curse of the Snake is one of Boothby's scarcer thrillers.

London : F. V. White , 1902
y separately published work icon A Tramp's Note-book Morley Roberts , London : F. V. White , 1904 Z1385420 1904 selected work autobiography travel London : George Bell and Sons , 1904
y separately published work icon A Brighton Tragedy Guy Boothby , London : F. V. White , 1905 Z799155 1905 single work novel romance London : George Bell and Sons , 1905
y separately published work icon The Eternal Feminine Ada Cambridge , London : Hurst and Blackett , 1907 Z166118 1907 single work novel London : George Bell and Sons , 1907
y separately published work icon A Saint in Mufti : A Novel Carlton Dawe , London : Eveleigh Nash , 1910 Z805151 1910 single work novel

'Major Sarning (an extremely seedy gentleman who chums in a very seedy London lodging-house with an almost equally seedy writer and actor) is walking home in the fog one night when he stumbles upon a derelict girl. His pity is aroused, then his interest, and, very much against the derelict's wish, he furnishes her with first aid in the shape of much-needed food and shelter, while he passes the night supperless on the landing. Despite his own slender means he decides, in confederation with his two doubting friends, and with the consent (for a consideration) of his even more doubting land-lady, to afford the girl more permanent shelter and succour. Betty's story has been a very sad one, and it is difficult to break down her callous disregard for respectability ; but the generous attitude of her protectors does at last break it down, and the gentle and disinterested consideration of two of them wins her to even higher levels than of merely negative virtue. In her effort to be good Betty meets many obstacles, but the beautiful charity and selflessness of the down-at-heels Major helps her at every turn.'

Source:

'The Bookworm's Corner', Freeman's Journal, 19 May 1910, p.32.

London : Eveleigh Nash , 1910
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