From the Meekatharra Miner, Saturday 22 September 1917. . ‘Extract from letter received by Mrs. J. E. Coombes from her son, Private Russell Wheeler, No. 413, 44th Battalion.’ (Of course, the letter home doesn’t tell the full horror of the trenches) ‘I take this opportunity to tell you about the “Big Push.” that I haveContinue reading “A Soldier’s letter from the Great War trenches”
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The Story of Western Australia’s Gold Rush: the history behind my novel ‘Gold Town’
Today, Australia ranks second only to China as a gold-producing country. And much of that gold still comes from Western Australia, which was still an isolated British colony, less than sixty years old, when the first gold finds were recorded. In the middle of the nineteenth century, when poverty drove many from their homelands toContinue reading “The Story of Western Australia’s Gold Rush: the history behind my novel ‘Gold Town’”
Lynne Cairns 