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'Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in bulletproof iron armour made from farmers' ploughs.
'Historians still disagree over virtually every aspect of the eldest Kelly boy's brushes with the law. Did he or did he not shoot Constable Fitzpatrick at their family home? Was he a lawless thug or a noble Robin Hood, a remorseless killer or a crusader against oppression and discrimination? Was he even a political revolutionary, an Australian republican channelling the spirit of Eureka?
'Peter FitzSimons, bestselling chronicler of many of the great defining moments and people of this nation's history, is the perfect person to tell this most iconic of all Australian stories. From Kelly's early days in Beveridge, Victoria, in the mid-1800s, to the Felons' Apprehension Act, which made it possible for anyone to shoot the Kelly gang, to Ned's appearance in his now-famous armour, prompting the shocked and bewildered police to exclaim ‘He is the devil!' and ‘He is the bunyip!', FitzSimons brings the history of Ned Kelly and his gang exuberantly to life, weighing in on all of the myths, legends and controversies generated by this compelling and divisive Irish-Australian rebel.' (Publisher's blurb)
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2013
single work
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 December 2013; (p. 18-19)
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The World as Kelly Felt It
The Gang's All Back in Town
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7-8 December 2013; (p. 31) The Canberra Times , 7 December 2013; (p. 21) The Age , 7 December 2013; (p. 29)
— Review of Ned Kelly : The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend 2013 single work biography -
Partial Portrait of an Ambiguous Anti-Hero
2013
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23-24 November 2013; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Ned Kelly : The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend 2013 single work biography -
Good Man, Bad Man : Why Ned Kelly Still Splits Public Opinion
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 November 2013; (p. 18-19)
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Partial Portrait of an Ambiguous Anti-Hero
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23-24 November 2013; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Ned Kelly : The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend 2013 single work biography -
The World as Kelly Felt It
The Gang's All Back in Town
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7-8 December 2013; (p. 31) The Canberra Times , 7 December 2013; (p. 21) The Age , 7 December 2013; (p. 29)
— Review of Ned Kelly : The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend 2013 single work biography -
Hot Reads
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 December 2013; (p. 18-19)
— Review of The Very Brave Bear 2013 single work picture book ; Seadog 2013 single work picture book ; Ice, Wind, Rock : Douglas Mawson in the Antarctic 2013 single work biography picture book ; The Four Seasons of Lucy McKenzie 2013 single work children's fiction ; The Rules of Summer 2013 single work picture book ; The Dying Beach 2013 single work novel ; The Ballad of Dixie Lee 2013 single work picture book ; Life in Outer Space 2013 single work novel ; Refuge 2013 single work children's fiction ; The Midnight Dress 2013 single work novel ; Watching You 2013 single work novel ; The Best Australian Science Writing 2013 2013 anthology short story essay poetry autobiography ; Bitter Wash Road 2013 single work novel ; The Dunbar Case 2013 single work novel ; The Narrow Road to the Deep North 2013 single work novel ; The Night Guest 2013 single work novel ; Questions of Travel 2012 single work novel ; The Rosie Project 2013 single work novel ; The Childhood of Jesus 2013 single work novel ; Divine Comedy : A New Verse Translation Clive James (translator), 2013 single work poetry ; The Best Australian Poems 2013 2013 selected work poetry ; At the Close of Play 2013 single work autobiography ; Ned Kelly : The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend 2013 single work biography ; Forgotten War 2013 single work non-fiction ; Kerry Stokes : Self-Made Man 2013 single work biography ; The 39-Storey Treehouse 2013 single work children's fiction ; Twiggy : The High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forest 2013 single work biography ; WeirDo 2013 single work children's fiction ; Boomer & Me : A Memoir of Motherhood and Asperger's 2013 single work autobiography ; The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter 2013 selected work poetry ; Clive : The Story of Clive Palmer 2013 single work biography ; Australian Poetry Journal vol. 3 no. 1 2013 periodical issue ; Shame and the Captives 2013 single work novel ; Coal Creek 2013 single work novel ; Barracuda 2013 single work novel -
Good Man, Bad Man : Why Ned Kelly Still Splits Public Opinion
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 November 2013; (p. 18-19)