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Original Title:	One ISBN13 9781921924965
Edition Language:	English

One

Patrick Holland

Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 4.23 | 35 Users | 13 Reviews

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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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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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At the risk of upsetting the natives, I've not been very enthralled with many Aussie novel writers. To the point of being rather put off, to be honest.So its a real joy to have stumbled across this one. Some great writing that takes the reader along on a wild ride with The Kenniff Brothers, a couple of ruthless bushrangers and the lawmen trying to capture them. With racial tension simmering in the background and a strong sense of the land, Holland gives such depth to the psyches of these two

This novel is exquisite. The chase, the violent conflict - physical and moral - at its heart. I'm embarassed to say I've never heard of the Kenniffs, Australia's last bushrangers. But I'll never forget them now. As wonderful as the story and characters are for me, especially the girl, who even without a name impresses herself so forcefully on the story, it's the Australian landscape that is the hero of this novel, so very hard, so very beautiful, burning with gold and vermillion, mysterious 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.

Though it's been out for a few months I'd been slow in getting to this one, as I thought Holland had finally hit subject matter I couldn't get interested in - Australian bushrangers. It took me a page. On the surface of this novel is a deftly handle chase. At the heart is a profound and nuanced ideological battle. But it's at the line level that Holland stands out in Australian literature. Not even Castro or Malouf can be so relied upon to deliver those phrases, sentences, those moments of

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

A fine writer and a great book.

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