Roger McDonald

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• When Colts Ran

  Written in English

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  Miles Franklin 2011 · Shortlist

  When Colts Ran

  When Colts Ran

  Roger McDonald · 69 when first published

  Novel · 346 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:Over several decades in the Isabel, a stretch of Australian sheep country, the restless Kingsley Colts drifts in and out of the lives of the men around him: prospectors, stock dealers, misfits and dreamers.

• The Ballad of Desmond Kale

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  Miles Franklin 2006 · ★ Winner

  The Ballad of Desmond Kale

  The Ballad of Desmond Kale

  Roger McDonald · 64 when first published

  Novel · 638 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:In the early 1800s in the convict colony of New South Wales, an Irish political prisoner and gifted sheep breeder escapes into the bush with a famous flock, hunted by a vengeful parson-magistrate.