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Sign up todayThe Queen's Colonial: Colonial Series Book 1
Colonial: Book #1
Narrator
Sam Haft
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Length
10 hours 14 minutes
Language
English
Narrated by Audiofile Golden Voice, Rupert Degas
Sometimes the fate for which you are destined is not your own...
1845, a village outside Sydney Town. Humble blacksmith Ian Steele struggles to support his widowed mother. All the while he dreams of a life in uniform, serving in Queen Victoria's army.
1845, Puketutu, New Zealand. Second Lieutenant Samuel Forbes, a young poet from an aristocratic English family, wants nothing more than to discard the officer's uniform he never sought.
When the two men cross paths in the colony of New South Wales, they are struck by their brotherly resemblance and quickly hatch a plan for Ian to take Samuel's place in the British army.
Ian must travel to England, fool the treacherous Forbes family and accept a commission into their regiment as a company commander in the bloody Crimean war...but he will soon learn that there are even deadlier enemies close to home.
Praise for Peter Watt:
'Australia's master of the historical fiction novel' - Canberra Weekly
Peter Watt has spent time as a soldier, articled clerk, prawn trawler deckhand, builder's labourer, pipe layer, real estate salesman, private investigator, police sergeant, surveyor's chainman and advisor to the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary. He speaks, reads and writes Vietnamese and Pidgin. He now lives at Maclean on the Clarence River in northern New South Wales. He has volunteered with the Volunteer Rescue Association, Queensland Ambulance Service and currently with the Rural Fire Service. Fishing and the vast open spaces of outback Queensland are his main interests in life.
Peter Watt can be contacted at www.peterwatt.com.
Sam Haft has worked extensively in theatre, film, television. As a voice over artist, Sam works regularly for ABC Radio Arts and in commercial voice overs and animated productions. He recently appeared in ABC's radio production of Hamlet.
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Sam Haft
ISBN:
9781760987770
Length:
10 hours 14 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
Publication date:
June 29, 2021
Edition:
Unabridged
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