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When fifteen-year-old Julianna leaves her father's yacht to explore an island off the coast of Western Australia, she becomes part of a three-hundred-year-old mystery of shipwreck, mutiny and murder. A novel set around the Batavia's 1629 shipwreck, and the subsequent mutiny and murder on the Abrolhos Islands.
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Other Formats
- Also braille, sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Untitled
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 14 no. 2 2000; (p. 72-73)
— Review of The Devil's Own 1990 single work novel -
'Lineaments of Gratified [Parental] Desire': Romance and Domestication in Some Recent Australian Children's Fiction
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , April vol. 4 no. 1 1993; (p. 3-13) Rutherford examines two novels intended for an adolescent, female readership, Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park and The Devil's Own by Deborah Lisson and in which an anti-social female child, 'is domesticated and rendered safe by means of an initiation into romantic love' (3). She argues that in both narratives, the child becomes a 'woman' by attaining a complimentary (male) lover who makes her 'complete' and that 'by means of this process the child becomes colonized to the needs of the adult members of the family' (3). This follows the traditional paradigm of romantic fiction, whereby the ideological construction of 'the mother under patriarchy' is maintained and perpetuated by way of the female hero and her quest to find the male counterpart which will complete her (3). Rutherford suggests that rather than representing childhood, both novels fundamentally represent 'parental anxieties about the child's desire for autonomy' (3) and instead of a narrative concerned with female adolescent desire, the texts inhere 'adult anxieties about the potentially uncontollable female child' and as such, continue to support 'the domestication of female sexuality' (12). -
Untitled
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 6 no. 1 1991; (p. 31)
— Review of The Devil's Own 1990 single work novel -
Untitled
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 35 no. 3 1991; (p. 29)
— Review of The Devil's Own 1990 single work novel -
The Children's Book of the Year Awards Shortlist
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 6 no. 2 1991; (p. 20-22)
— Review of Magic Beach 1990 single work picture book ; My Cat Maisie 1990 single work picture book ; Counting on Frank 1990 single work picture book ; Greetings from Sandy Beach 1990 single work picture book ; Hector and Maggie 1990 single work picture book ; Scallywag 1990 single work picture book ; Boris and Borsch 1990 single work picture book ; First at Last : And Other Stories 1990 selected work children's fiction ; The Black Duck 1990 single work children's fiction ; Mervyn's Revenge 1990 single work children's fiction ; Finders Keepers 1990 single work children's fiction ; Captain Deadlight's Treasure 1990 single work children's fiction ; The Farseekers 1990 single work novel ; Strange Objects 1990 single work novel ; The Devil's Own 1990 single work novel ; Brother Night 1990 single work novel ; Speaking to Miranda 1990 single work novel ; The Family Book of Mary Claire 1990 single work novel
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Untitled
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 35 no. 3 1991; (p. 29)
— Review of The Devil's Own 1990 single work novel -
Untitled
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 6 no. 1 1991; (p. 31)
— Review of The Devil's Own 1990 single work novel -
Untitled
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 14 no. 2 2000; (p. 72-73)
— Review of The Devil's Own 1990 single work novel -
The Best for the Children
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 30 March 1991; (p. 5)
— Review of Speaking to Miranda 1990 single work novel ; The Family Book of Mary Claire 1990 single work novel ; The Devil's Own 1990 single work novel ; The Farseekers 1990 single work novel ; Brother Night 1990 single work novel ; Hector and Maggie 1990 single work picture book ; Strange Objects 1990 single work novel ; First at Last : And Other Stories 1990 selected work children's fiction ; My Cat Maisie 1990 single work picture book ; Captain Deadlight's Treasure 1990 single work children's fiction ; Finders Keepers 1990 single work children's fiction ; Magic Beach 1990 single work picture book ; Counting on Frank 1990 single work picture book ; Greetings from Sandy Beach 1990 single work picture book ; Boris and Borsch 1990 single work picture book -
Maintaining a High Standard
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 July 1991; (p. C8)
— Review of The Devil's Own 1990 single work novel ; Emma Keppler : Two Months in Her Life 1991 single work children's fiction -
'Lineaments of Gratified [Parental] Desire': Romance and Domestication in Some Recent Australian Children's Fiction
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , April vol. 4 no. 1 1993; (p. 3-13) Rutherford examines two novels intended for an adolescent, female readership, Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park and The Devil's Own by Deborah Lisson and in which an anti-social female child, 'is domesticated and rendered safe by means of an initiation into romantic love' (3). She argues that in both narratives, the child becomes a 'woman' by attaining a complimentary (male) lover who makes her 'complete' and that 'by means of this process the child becomes colonized to the needs of the adult members of the family' (3). This follows the traditional paradigm of romantic fiction, whereby the ideological construction of 'the mother under patriarchy' is maintained and perpetuated by way of the female hero and her quest to find the male counterpart which will complete her (3). Rutherford suggests that rather than representing childhood, both novels fundamentally represent 'parental anxieties about the child's desire for autonomy' (3) and instead of a narrative concerned with female adolescent desire, the texts inhere 'adult anxieties about the potentially uncontollable female child' and as such, continue to support 'the domestication of female sexuality' (12).
Awards
- 1991 joint winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Children's Books
- 1991 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers
Last amended 19 Oct 2005 13:43:37
Settings:
- Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Dongara - Geraldton - Northampton area, Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia,
- ca. 1990
- 1692
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