{"title":"Katharine Susannah Prichard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKatharine Susannah Prichard\u003c\/strong\u003e offers readers compelling works of \u003cem\u003egeneral fiction\u003c\/em\u003e that explore complex human relationships and the Australian landscape. Her stories often delve into themes of identity, culture, and social change, inviting reflection on both personal and collective experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a keen eye for character and setting, Prichard's novels evoke a strong sense of place and time. Readers can expect richly textured narratives that blend emotional depth with insightful social commentary.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"coonardoo-by-katharine-susannah-prichard-9781760803469","title":"Coonardoo","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKatharine Susannah Prichard’s \u003ci\u003eCoonardoo\u003c\/i\u003e was a national prize winner in 1928, and one of the most widely taught works of Australian literature in the twentieth century. Few books have attracted such differing assessments: brilliantly authentic, completely fabricated, incisive realism, ‘a fairytale’. The author herself attracted controversy as ‘the red witch’, a sobriquet used as the title for Nathan Hobby’s recent biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the first time, the depth of Prichard’s research into the colonial history of the Pilbara, along with her family connections to that past, are explained. And for the first time, the different versions of \u003ci\u003eCoonardoo\u003c\/i\u003e—which first appeared as a magazine serial, then in books prepared by publishers in London, New York, then Sydney—are compared, revealing ‘an inveterate reviser’ at work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCompiled with the help of dozens of experts in fields ranging from linguistics to botany, this scholarly edition gives scholars and general readers new perspectives on a major work of Australian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48252633776364,"sku":"9781760803469","price":38.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781760803469-coonardoo-1.jpg?v=1788217570"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/katharine-susannah-prichard.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}