Trevor shearston biography of christopher

          Winner of the ALS Gold Medal in , Prelude to Christopher was the second novel of Eleanor Dark ().

          A moving and brilliant literary novel about the last days of legendary bushranger Ben Hall....

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          I have never in my life thrown a pot.

          So how did I invent Russell Bass, a potter, and the central character of Hare’s Fur? And why?

          What a delight to read Hare's Fur (Scribe ) by author Trevor Shearston.

        1. Book overview.
        2. A moving and brilliant literary novel about the last days of legendary bushranger Ben Hall.
        3. In the most recent issue of the Australian literary quarterly, Meanjin, TREVOR SHEARSTON writes about the inspiration behind his novel.
        4. Trevor has an esteemed reputation as a fine chronicler of human life in all its many facets and was regarded as one of the greatest short story.

          5. Always the harder question. There’s a history, obviously.

          In my then-partner Ursula and I drove south from Sydney in search of a place and a house where she could pursue her ambition of becoming a wood-firing potter, and I could try to write a second book.

          My first, Something in the Blood, hadn’t made me much in sales, but it had led to a Literature Board grant — enough, we hoped, to give us a start. We kept driving south, prices getting lower, till we came to Moruya Heads and saw a house, a box on stumps, but with a garage for a studio, and a view of the river, and at a price we could afford, now-mythical, of course, twenty-two grand.

          I wrote three books in that