Elianne (60 page)

Tiger Men

Van Diemen’s Land was an island of stark contrasts: a harsh penal colony, an English idyll for its gentry, and an island so rich in natural resources it was a profiteer’s paradise. Its capital, Hobart Town, had its contrasts too: the wealthy elite in their sandstone mansions, the exploited poor in the notorious Wapping slum, and the criminals who haunted the dockside taverns. Hobart Town was no place for the meek.
Tiger Men
is the story of Silas Stanford, a wealthy Englishman; Mick O’Callaghan, an Irishman on the run; and Jefferson Powell, an idealistic American political prisoner. It is also the story of the strong, proud women who loved them, and of the children they bore who rose to power in the cutthroat world of international trade. A sweeping saga of three families who lived through Tasmania’s golden era and the birth of Federation and then watched with pride as their sons marched off to fight for King and Country.

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Elianne

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Copyright © Judy Nunn, 2013

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First published by William Heinemann in 2013

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Nunn, Judy, author.

Elianne/Judy Nunn.

ISBN 9781742758404 (ebook)

A823.3

Cover image of Queenslander courtesy Garth Chapman Queenslanders, other images courtesy Bigstockphoto, stock.xchng and Josh Durham

Cover design by Josh Durham/Design by Committee

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