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The Queen's Colonial
The Queen's Colonial

The Queen's Colonial

Colonial

FICTION

416 Pages, 5 x 7.75

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $15.95 (US $15.95) (CA $20.95)

Publication Date: June 2020

ISBN 9781760781095

Rights: US & CA

Pan Macmillan Australia (Jun 2020)
Pan Australia

Price: $15.95
 
 

Overview

Captain Ian Steele stares down the relentless Russian military in this 19th century historical novel of war and love

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.

Author Biography

Peter Watt has been a soldier, articled clerk to a solicitor, prawn trawler deckhand, builder's laborer, pipe layer, real estate salesman, private investigator, police sergeant, and adviser to the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary. He is the author of the Frontier series and the Papua Trilogy.