Beauty and Cruelty in True Life Fiction.

12/02/2011

I love a novel that deals with real life issues - good and bad - in a sensitive and believable way.There are several books that are my inspiration as to how to tell my story which is based on a true passage of time and varied events interwoven into fiction. There is beauty and cruelty in true life.

Do you know any books that can deal with extremely violent and troubled issues and yet do so in a such a gentle way you do not need to look away, just be moved by the circumstances and end with a feel good or bitter sweet experience?

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Dreaming Billabong
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Dreaming Billabong Characters

Guruwari and Koorine, Jarrah's parents.
Murder victims?

This is Marianna
A beautiful courageous, post WWII European refugee to Australia.

Leslie Fife-Mayer, fashion designer, business woman and mum of the main character Emily and her brother Harry.

The Antagonist
Peter Mayer
Emily and Harry Fife-Mayer's father, Leslie's husband.

Harry Fife-Mayer

Meet Leib Turnbull
Peter's business partner, Financier.

Mrs Kaye, Ian Fife's carer and housekeeper in the homestead kitchen

Dreaming Billabong
is the title for the series of novels that tells a crime genre story with an Australian historical background of a small town in inland north-eastern Australia though the experiences of children. It is also a beautiful coming of age story of the children and while not a romance story it does contain a sweetly sensual romance within the larger story.

Billabong
is a waterhole specifically a waterhole that forms at the bend in a river. The word ‘billabong’ is thought to have originated from the Wiradjuri term ‘bilabaŋ’. Wiradjuri is the traditional language of the Wiradhuri people of New South Wales.

Categories

My People's Dreaming: An Aboriginal Elder Speaks on Life, Land, Spirit and Forgiveness

Ngaanyatjarra: Art of the Lands

Ngaanyatjarra: A Learner's Guide

Bush Tucker (Message S.)

The Apology: Saying Sorry to the Stolen Generations (Tell Me a Story About Australia)

Signed, A4 Size print of Blue Mountains. NSW. available.. Original SOLD.

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Medicinal Plants in Australia: v. 1: Bush Pharmacy

Stolen Generations

Being Australian: Narratives of National Identity

The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek

Stolen Girl

Tongues of Serpents

Bush Tucker Field Guide

Who's That Jumbun in the Log?

Bush Medicine

Upper Primary A Unit 4: Shaping Our Nation : Stories of Stolen Generations

Stories of the Stolen Generations (Insights)

Elders: Wisdom from Australia's Indigenous Leaders

Frommer's Australia: 2011 (Frommer's Complete)

The Protectors: A Journey Through Whitefella Past

Milky Way (Mythology)

Here are some links which you may find useful:

Anchor Books Australia

National Library of Australia

State Library of New South Wales

State Library of Victoria

State Library of Tasmania

State Records of New South Wales

Public Record Office Victoria

Archives Office of Tasmania

Australia Council for the Arts

Australian Government – Arts and culture

Australia Business Arts Foundation (AbaF)

Copyright Agency Limited - Resale Royalty Scheme

POV of Novel is
Third-Person Limited Omniscient
(a.k.a. Third-Person Limited Flexible)
A hybrid of 1. Third-Person Limited (a.k.a. Close Third Person) and 2. Third-Person Omniscient .

The author gives readers access to the mind of just one character but also provides information to which the pov-character is not privy.

In other words, we view the world through the main characters eyes [u]and[/u] through the narrator’s (or author’s) eyes. Usually, authors do not present information about scenes in which the pov-character is not present, but exceptions abound.