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Cry of the Curlew: The Frontier Series 1

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Cry of the Curlew unfolds the brutal and turbulent story of Australia’s northern frontier through the fierce rivalry between the Macintosh and Duffy families. Following a savage act by squatter Donald Macintosh in Queensland, their lives become entwined in a powerful saga of love, revenge, and death amidst the wild and unforgiving landscape.
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Ideal for readers of historical romance with a taste for confronting and graphic narratives that explore Australia's rugged past and complex family dynamics.

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Confronting, graphic and erotic, this is riveting novel of Australia's brutal past from master storyteller Peter Watt. It is the tale of two families, the Macintoshes and the Duffy's, who are locked in a deadly battle from the moment squatter Donald Macintosh commits an act of barbarity on his Queensland property. Australian author.

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Confronting, graphic and erotic, Cry of the Curlew is a riveting novel of Australia's brutal past from master storyteller Peter Watt. It is the tale of two families, the Macintoshes and the Duffys, who are locked in a deadly battle from the moment squatter Donald Macintosh commits an act of barbarity on his Queensland property.

Their paths cross in love, death and revenge as both families fight to tame the wild frontier of Australia's north country.

Cry of the Curlew is the first bestselling novel in the compelling Duffy and Macintosh series depicting our turbulent history as never before.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781742613451

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 September 2013

Country: Australia

Imprint: Pan Australia

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 48.0mm

Width: 134.0mm

Height: 204.0mm

Weight: 494g

Pages: 656

About the Author

Peter Watt has spent time as a soldier, articled clerk, prawn trawler deckhand, builder's labourer, pipe layer, real estate salesman, private investigator, police sergeant and advisor to the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary. He speaks, reads and writes Vietnamese and Pidgin. He now lives at Maclean, on the Clarence River in northern New South Wales. He is a volunteer firefighter with the Rural Fire service, and fishing the vast open spaces of outback Queensland are his main interests in life.

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