A Bitter Harvest
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From the bestselling author of Above the Fold and Dragons in the Forest William Patterson is a wealthy ambitious politician with a scandalous past. Elizabeth is his beloved daughter, beautiful and headstrong. Stefan Muller is a poor German migrant seeking a better life in Australia. As a young nation comes of age, these three lives collide ignit
Peter Yeldham
Peter Yeldham OAM has been a writer since the age of seventeen when he wrote short stories and radio scripts. He went to England, intending to stay a year and stayed nearly twenty, writing for British television, then feature films and stage plays, including the highly successful 'Birds on the Wing' (in 1972 it was the top grossing play in Europe) and 'Fringe Benefits' which ran for two years in Paris. He has written another six plays for the theatre and collaborated on the musical 'Seven Little Australians'. His Australian work includes numerous mini-series, among them '1915', 'Captain James Cook', 'The Alien Years', 'All the Rivers Run', 'The Heroes', 'The Far Country', 'Run from the Morning', 'The Timeless Land', 'Ride on Stranger' and 'The Battlers'. His adaptation of Bryce Courtenay's novel 'Jessica' earned Peter a Logie award in 2005. He is the author of nine previous historical novels - A Bitter Harvest, The Currency Lads, Against the Tide, The Murrumbidgee Kid, A Distant Shore, Glory Girl, Barbed Wire and Roses, Above the Fold and Dragons in the Forest. In 1991 he received an Order of Australia Medal for achievement in film and television, and a Centenary Medal in 2003. Industry honours include six Australian Awards, a British Writers Guild Award, a Ned Kelly Award nomination for his thriller Without Warning, and an Emmy Award nomination for his television drama, Captain James Cook. For more information please visit www.peteryeldham.com
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Story of a poor, young German man travelling to Australia to start a new life. He meets and falls in love with a girl on the ship, the daughter of a key Sydney politician. The tale is told of their battle to start their life together in the Barossa region of South Australia during war-time, and the difficulties faced by German settlers as they are ostracised in their adopted homeland.