The Resource Searching for the secret river, Kate Grenville
Searching for the secret river, Kate Grenville
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Resource Information
The item Searching for the secret river, Kate Grenville represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Kate Grenville's novel The Secret River moved and exhilarated many people when it was first published in 2005. Readers marvelled at the subtlety of its language, and the power of Grenville's story- telling. And they recognised that this simple tale of a poor convict family settling on the banks of the Hawkesbury River in the early nineteenth century represented a landmark moment in Australian fiction. Grenville had taken the novel to the frontier of European settlement and written a profoundly original and disturbing work about what happened there. Searching for the Secret River is the extraordinary story of how Kate Grenville came to write her award-winning novel. It all begins with her ancestor Solomon Wiseman, transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life, but who later became a wealthy man and built his colonial mansion on the Hawkesbury. Increasingly obsessed with his story, Grenville pursues him from Sydney to London and back, and then up the Hawkesbury itself. Slowly she begins to realise she must write about him, and begins to discover what kind of book she will write. Grenville opens the door and invites the reader into her writing room, and tells us about how this novel was formed, the research she did, the false starts she made and the frustrations she experienced
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 6 CDs
- Note
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- Queensland Narrating Service: 3948CD
- Print edition published: 2006
- Label
- Searching for the secret river
- Title
- Searching for the secret river
- Statement of responsibility
- Kate Grenville
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Kate Grenville's novel The Secret River moved and exhilarated many people when it was first published in 2005. Readers marvelled at the subtlety of its language, and the power of Grenville's story- telling. And they recognised that this simple tale of a poor convict family settling on the banks of the Hawkesbury River in the early nineteenth century represented a landmark moment in Australian fiction. Grenville had taken the novel to the frontier of European settlement and written a profoundly original and disturbing work about what happened there. Searching for the Secret River is the extraordinary story of how Kate Grenville came to write her award-winning novel. It all begins with her ancestor Solomon Wiseman, transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life, but who later became a wealthy man and built his colonial mansion on the Hawkesbury. Increasingly obsessed with his story, Grenville pursues him from Sydney to London and back, and then up the Hawkesbury itself. Slowly she begins to realise she must write about him, and begins to discover what kind of book she will write. Grenville opens the door and invites the reader into her writing room, and tells us about how this novel was formed, the research she did, the false starts she made and the frustrations she experienced
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1950-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Grenville, Kate
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- Literary text for sound recordings
- other
- PerformerNote
- Narrated by Kaye Stevenson
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Stevenson, Kaye
- Queensland Narrating Service
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Wiseman, Solomon
- Grenville, Kate
- Convicts
- Squatter settlements
- Fiction
- Wisemans Ferry (N.S.W.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Searching for the secret river, Kate Grenville
- Note
-
- Queensland Narrating Service: 3948CD
- Print edition published: 2006
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p225870613
- Dimensions
- 12 cm.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Extent
- 6 CDs
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Kind of cutting
- unknown
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other physical details
- digital
- Publisher number
- 3948CD
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- unknown
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- Searching for the secret river, Kate Grenville
- Note
-
- Queensland Narrating Service: 3948CD
- Print edition published: 2006
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p225870613
- Dimensions
- 12 cm.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Extent
- 6 CDs
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Kind of cutting
- unknown
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other physical details
- digital
- Publisher number
- 3948CD
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- unknown
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
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