Katharine Susannah Prichard: 4 books

The Black Opal is a tender story of the highs and lows of a close-knit community of opal-miners. The men and women of Fallen Star Ridge - Potch, Michael, Sophie, Snow-Shoes - love their land and cherish their freedom, until a wealthy buyer arrives in town with an offer seemingly too lucrative to refuse...

Winged Seeds is the concluding novel to Katharine Susannah Prichard's far-reaching goldfields trilogy. It is 1936. Sally Gough is now a widow, living with her lover Frisco de Morphe, who has always loved her. The third generation of Goughs, Sally's grandchildren, make their lives on the land. Once...

I consider Brumby Innes to be in a class by itself' wrote theatre director Gregan McMahon in 1927. 'It is a very remarkable work, comparable to some of the best of Eugene O'Neill's, and it is, moreover, essentially Australian.'Written in the 1920s, Brumby Innes confronts the turbulent relations between...

Golden Miles is a historical novel set in the goldfields of Western Australia, while the Great War rages abroad. The Golden Mile is the richest gold seam in the world, but prosperity resides in the hands of the few. Sally Gough takes boarders to supplement the living scratched together by her...