‘Writing History, Writing Fiction, The Making of Martin Sparrow, a Hawkesbury novel’
Join award-winning historian Peter Cochrane as he explores themes behind his first novel, The Making of Martin Sparrow, an action-packed reimagining of life on the brutal frontier of the Hawkebury River in 1806.
‘Written in a wonderfully evocative, muscular prose and rich in Biblical cadences, Martin Sparrow just might be Australia’s answer to the novels of Cormac McCarthy.’ AUSTRALIAN BOOKSELLER & PUBLISHER
‘Cochrane exercises a compelling control over his narrative of frontier banditry, venality and bestiality… The Making of Martin Sparrow is at once harrowing and entertaining.’ Peter Pierce, THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
Peter Cochrane is a widely published historian and writer based in Sydney best known for his book Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy, which won the inaugural Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History and the Age Book of the Year in 2007. His first venture into fiction was the novella Governor Bligh and the Short Man. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.