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E. V. Timms E. V. Timms i(A19375 works by) (birth name: Edward Vivian Timms) (a.k.a. Edward King)
Also writes as: David Roseler
Born: Established: 7 Apr 1895 Charters Towers, Charters Towers area, Far North Queensland, Queensland, ; Died: Ceased: 14 Jun 1960 Budgewoi, Budgewoi Lake - Lake Munmorah area, Central Coast, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
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1 1 y separately published work icon The Big Country E. V. Timms , Alma Timms , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1962 Z273946 1962 single work novel historical fiction This is the story of the Big Country that lies around and beyond the Darling River in the far west of New South Wales. Here, in the year 1874, a beautiful half-cast girl, Jenny Courage, is searching for her father, the white man who abandoned her mother and on whom she means to be revenged. After working as a stewardess on a ferry boat, Jenny becomes a housekeeper on an isolated station. And it is there that Jenny, torn by conflicting passions of love and hate, comes by strange and violent ways to the end of her quest. (Publisher's blurb)
1 y separately published work icon Robina E. V. Timms , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1958 Z297908 1958 single work novel historical fiction
1 y separately published work icon Shining Harvest E. V. Timms , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1956 Z274243 1956 single work novel historical fiction
1 y separately published work icon Convict Town E. V. Timms , Toronto : Harlequin , 1955 Z1448948 1955 single work novel
2 1 y separately published work icon They Came From the Sea E. V. Timms , 1955 Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1955 Z267029 1955 single work novel historical fiction
1 3 y separately published work icon The Fury E. V. Timms , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1954 Z161098 1954 single work novel historical fiction
1 3 y separately published work icon The Scarlet Frontier E. V. Timms , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1953 Z274146 1953 single work novel historical fiction
1 1 y separately published work icon The Challenge E. V. Timms , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1952 Z161200 1952 single work novel historical fiction
1 form y separately published work icon Forever to Remain E. V. Timms , 1952 Adelaide : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1952 10444358 1952 series - publisher radio play historical fiction

A drama of migrants on a voyage from England to Western Australia's Swan River Colony on the 1930s.
1 y separately published work icon The Valleys Beyond E. V. Timms , London : Angus and Robertson , 1951 Z276134 1951 single work novel historical fiction
1 2 y separately published work icon The Beckoning Shore E. V. Timms , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1950 Z161301 1950 single work novel historical fiction
1 1 y separately published work icon The Pathway of the Sun E. V. Timms , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1949 Z274046 1949 single work novel historical fiction
2 3 y separately published work icon Forever to Remain E. V. Timms , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1948 Z161400 1948 single work novel historical fiction adventure 'The Swan River Settlement was in its infancy when the London Lass set sail with its cargo of emigrants to this strange new world. Proud or humble, adventurous or ambitious, those who rubbed shoulders in this perilous journey were so diverse that their passions and frustrations were bound to end in more than one human tragedy...it is a colouful gallery, implicit with the drama of conflicting personalities. High adventure is the keynote of this story of a fateful journey to Western Australia.' (Back cover.)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Cities Under the Sea E. V. Timms , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1948 Z1448202 1948 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Great South Land Saga E. V. Timms , 1948-1971 10467782 1948 series - author novel
1 Night Operator E. V. Timms , 1945 single work short story
— Appears in: The 'Man' Storyteller : A Selection of the Best Australian Fiction by Modern Writers 1945; (p. 85-92)
1 12 form y separately published work icon Forty Thousand Horsemen Elsa Chauvel , E. V. Timms , Charles Chauvel , ( dir. Charles Chauvel ) Australia : Famous Feature Films , 1940 Z1804332 1940 single work film/TV (taught in 1 units) 'Red Gallagher and his best pals Jim and Larry are bored Australian soldiers in Egypt in 1916, constantly getting up to mischief in Cairo nightclubs. When German-backed Turkish forces attack British outposts in the Sinai desert, the Australians rush to the defence, as mounted troops of the Australian Light Horse regiments. They take part in a fierce battle at Romani, then drive on to Gaza, where Jim and Larry are killed. Red is wounded and lost in the desert, but rescued by a French woman, dressed as an Arab boy. Juliet spies on the German preparations at Beersheba, as Red rejoins his unit in time for the final battle. The Lighthorsemen charge Beersheba across open ground, and are victorious against the odds. Red and Juliet find each other in Jerusalem, after the Turks are routed.' (Source: Australian Screen online)
1 y separately published work icon James! How Dare You! E. V. Timms , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1940 Z307851 1940 single work novel

'Chief characters are James Colburn and his wife Elaine, impulsive, irascible old Peter Colburn, multi-millionaire father of James, Sir Francis Martindale, millionaire lather of Elaine, the unbelievable Major Guntha ("Guns") Winterbottom, and a mingled crew of foreigners.

'This is a wartime novel, and the conflict and fun arise from the apparent slackness of the six-foot, handsome James Colburn. Instead of doing his duty as an Englishman In helping fight the Nazi menace, he appears only to be interested in pacifist organisations.

'Wife Elaine scorns him for this attitude, although still loving him. The domestic situation is not improved by her interest in refugee organisations–an interest which, to James' mind, brings her into far too frequent contact with gentlemen who may be harmless, but ...

'Fathers Peter and Francis are mainly interested in getting the young couple together again and, in Peter's case, pushing his son into active war work.'

Source:

'E.V. Timms Writes New Type of Wartime Novel', The Australian Women's Weekly, 15 June 1940, p.45.
1 form James! Don't Be a Fool E. V. Timms , 1940 series - publisher radio play
1 y separately published work icon Dark Interlude E. V. Timms , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1939 Z512123 1939 single work novel mystery horror

'MR. E. V. TIMMS, in "DARK INTERLUDE" (Angus and Robertson) fills a railway carriage with solidified ghosts to make his reader's flesh creep. He tells how Ann Harper, accompanied by her fiance, Roger Balcombe. and her brother, Joe, boarded a train at dusk one evening, against the wishes of the guard. It was a wicked night. The train had only one passenger carriage at the end of a long line of goods trucks. The carriage was unlighted when the three took their seats and the train started.

'They were apparently the only passengers but one. He proved to be a corpse with a knife in his heart. They lit matches and searched, but the carriage was empty but for themselves and the corpse. There was a legend that 20 years earlier a train, similarly made up, had been wrecked on the line and all its passengers had been killed. Then, from nowhere, the carriage begins to fill up with the ghosts of the dead passengers. It also comes out that there had been: a spot of murder on the train before the accident had happened. Ann and her friends gather that the ghosts were re-enacting the crime of 20 years ago. Those who care to accept a trainload of ghosts will find Mr. Timms's story interesting. The idea is well carried out, but his denouement is not very skilfully handled, and detracts considerably from its entertainment value.'

Source:

Erle Cox, 'Survey of a Chinese Philosopher' [book reviews], The Australasian, 9 December 1939, p.34.
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