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Patrick Holland

Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 4.23 | 35 Users | 13 Reviews

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Original Title:	One ISBN13 9781921924965
Edition Language:	English

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The last bushrangers in Australian history, James and Patrick Kenniff, were at the height at their horse thieving operation at turn of the 20th century. In One, troops cannot pull the Kenniff Gang out of the ranges and plains of Western Queensland – the brothers know the terrain too well, and the locals are sympathetic to their escapades. When a policeman and a station manager go out on patrol from tiny Upper Warrego Station and disappear, Sergeant Nixon makes it his mission to pursue the gang, especially, Jim Kenniff, who becomes for him an emblem of the violence that resides in the heart of the country.


From the award-winning author of The Mary Smokes Boys, One is a novel of minimalist lyrical beauty that traverses the intersections between violence and love. It asks what right one man has to impose his will on another, and whether the written law can ever answer the law of the heart?

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Title	:	One
Author	:	Patrick Holland
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2016 by Transit Lounge Publishing Yarraville Australia
Categories	:	Westerns. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Australia. Mystery. Crime. Novels

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Ratings: 4.23 From 35 Users | 13 Reviews

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I liked this book. Not in the genre that I normally read. The book had the feel of an American western but purely Australian in content. A lot of the bush ranger stories in Australia can be a bit dull. I found this book to be very enjoyable and contained a lot of historical fact. About the 3/4 way mark it started to get a little slow but then finished well. I found it very interesting how the different nationalities and native Australian people were represented and portrayed at that time in

Beautifully written story about the hunt for the last bushrangers in Australia. It reminded me very much of The Burial by Courtney Collins, a story about a female bushranger. Quite poignant in its portrayal of the policeman Nixon relentlessly pursuing the outlaws and Jim Kenniff the leader of the gang. Who was in the right? Captures the period and the starkness of the landscape really well.

A magnificent, spartan historical novel set in the bush country west and north of Brisbane, Australia. It's the turn of the 20th century and Sergeant Nixon sets out to find and either arrest or kill the bushrangers Paddy and Jim Kenniff. Landscape and memory are as much characters in this novel as any of the people who populate the story. Holland helps the reader feel the lonely, hardscrabble life on this frontier and how it made "the rule of law" far from black and white.Because of the subject



Very good! Who doesn't like a good bushranger tale - and this one is powerful, well researched, beautifully written, strongly evocative of the time and place. I really liked it. And happy to see that he has written a number of books, so I'll be tracking down his back catalogue.

Dio Mio, they don't know what you are, signore. This one is brilliante. Exquisite beautiful.

Relentless, dry, unforgiving and haunting. When the quest is not only the man we follow- but also the man we are. A country on the cusp of change, yet still so entwined with its vast heritage, its differences of the criminal and the lawman, the need for survival, the need to salvage something that got lost. A gem.