Many Years a Thief

A novel by David Hutchison

PB 160 PP 210 x 135 9781862547469 $22.95 Fiction Wakefield Press April 2007

‘This is an excellent novel. Perceptive, subtle and moving in its insights, the narrative moves to its inexorable conclusion with a surely controlled touch. By a long way the most compelling work based on Western Australian history that I have read.’ – Professor Geoffrey Bolton

This is the story of how John Gavin, a 15-year-old boy – one of a group of juvenile convicts taking part in an attempted rehabilitation scheme – became the first European to be executed in the colony of Western Australia.

David Hutchison’s publications include articles, essays, poetry and short fiction, botanical illustrations, A Town Like No Other (about the Benedictine Community of New Norcia in Western Australia), and Fremantle Walks.

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