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Author

Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville is one of Australia's finest writers. Her early works have become modern classics and are admired by critics and readers around the world. Her 1992 novel, The Idea of Perfection, was a bestseller and winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, Britain's most valuable literary award. In 2006 Kate Grenville was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the NSW Premier's Literary Award for The Secret River, and the novel was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Kate lives in Sydney with her family. Grenville's A Room Made of Leaves won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction at the 2021 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.

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Title:

The Lieutenant (MP3)

Written by:

Kate Grenville 

Read by:

Nicholas Bell 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

7 hours 1 minutes 

MP3 size:

306 MB 

Published:

September 01 2009 

Available Date:

May 14 2010 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781742333427 

Genres:

Fiction; Australian; Australian Fiction; Historical Fiction; Indigenous Peoples; Literary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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Price

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AUD$ 29.95

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Bestseller
Books Alive: 50 Books You Can't Put Down
Four Starred Review on Amazon

Shortlisted NSW Premier's Literary Awards / Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2010
Shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards / Fiction 2008

From the author of The Secret River.

In 1787 Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover in this strange land on the other side of the world. After the fleet arrives in Port Jackson, Rooke sets up camp on a rocky and isolated point, and starts his work of astronomy and navigation. It's not too long before some of the Aboriginal people who live around the harbour pay him a visit. One of them, a girl named Tagaran, starts to teach him her own language. But her lessons and their friendship are interrupted when Rooke is given an order that will change his life forever. Inspired by the 1790 notebooks of William Dawes in which he recorded his conversations with a young Gadigal woman, The Lieutenant is a story about a man discovering his true self in extraordinary circumstances.

"A very understated and introspective story is perfectly interpreted by British trained actor Nicholas Bell as he reads with a very intimate voice, distinguishing each character with an individual voice. Bell has performed in many theatre productions in London and Australia; his television appearances include Inspector Morse, Frontline, Stingers, and Blue Heelers; and he has appeared in a number of feature films including Mission Impossible, The Craic, and Shine."
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