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'"Kinglake-350 to VKC. Urgent, do you read me? The fire's here now. God help us."

'Kinglake-350 is a masterpiece of writing about family, community, country life and what happens when a day of ultimate terror arrives. Adrian Hyland takes a dramatic and compelling sequence of events on that day and weaves them into a picture of universal significance and deep fascination.

'On 7 February 2009 Roger Wood was the police officer in charge of Kinglake, at the epicentre of the worst bushfire disaster in Australia's history, Black Saturday. As the firestorm engulfed the community, he risked his life, again and again, to try and save people.

'With the fire raging all around, he phoned home to warn his wife what was coming. She screamed that the fire had already hit their property. Then the line went dead.

'Black Saturday was a many-headed monster in whose wake stories of grief, heroism and desolation erupted all over the state of Victoria. This is a book about the monster, and the heroism of those who confronted it. (From the publisher's website.)

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  • Dedication: For the invisible heroes and for those who are still suffering.
  • Epigraph: This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open. - St Augustine
  • Epigraph:

    Girls and Horses in the Fire
    (Kinglake, 7 Feb 2009)

    Nothing will come between them,
    those girls and their horses;
    not wind or rain, nor pillars of fire.
    If a hand should flick a match
    amongst leaves or trunks implode
    with the weight of heat, or lightening
    blast the wasted trees, still they'd run,
    these girls, through conflagrations,
    wreathed by flames and embers.
    Girls who run towards horses in fire,
    may you find your home in the equine stars:
    Pegasus, Equuleus. Hush, sleep now.

    Lisa Jacobson

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2011 .
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      Extent: x, 261p., [4]p. of platesp.
      Description: col. illus., maps
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: 1 August 2011.
      • Includes author's note.
      ISBN: 9781921758263 (pbk.)
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2015 .
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      Extent: 272p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 25th February 2015.
      ISBN: 9781922182920

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Next Time Robyn Annear , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Monthly , February no. 86 2013; (p. 40-43)
Words of Great Worth Robyn Annear , David Day , Lyn McCredden , Peter Pierce , Lucy Sussex , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 4 August 2012; (p. 30-31)
This column comprises the judges' comments on the shortlisted works for the 2012 Age Book of the Year Award. (The list includes three titles, outside the scope of AustLit, by James Boyce, Paul Ham and Jane Gleeson-White.)
The Storytelling Animal Kathleen Noonan , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 23 - 24 June 2012; (p. 36)
The Language of Catastrophe : Forgetting, Blaming and Bursting into Colour Tom Griffiths , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Autumn no. 35 2012; (p. 51-67)
Debris Obscures Story of Black Saturday Jane McCredie , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 8 January 2012; (p. 7)

— Review of Kinglake-350 Adrian Hyland , 2011 single work prose
Coming through the Inferno Matthew Ricketson , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 13 August 2011; (p. 28-29)

— Review of Kinglake-350 Adrian Hyland , 2011 single work prose
Hellfire Recollection Robert Hefner , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 August 2011; (p. 23, 26)

— Review of Kinglake-350 Adrian Hyland , 2011 single work prose
Untitled Deborah Bogle , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 20 August 2011; (p. 26)

— Review of Kinglake-350 Adrian Hyland , 2011 single work prose
Untitled Pauline Meaney , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 19 no. 4 2011; (p. 7)

— Review of Kinglake-350 Adrian Hyland , 2011 single work prose
Debris Obscures Story of Black Saturday Jane McCredie , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 8 January 2012; (p. 7)

— Review of Kinglake-350 Adrian Hyland , 2011 single work prose
The Language of Catastrophe : Forgetting, Blaming and Bursting into Colour Tom Griffiths , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Autumn no. 35 2012; (p. 51-67)
The Storytelling Animal Kathleen Noonan , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 23 - 24 June 2012; (p. 36)
Words of Great Worth Robyn Annear , David Day , Lyn McCredden , Peter Pierce , Lucy Sussex , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 4 August 2012; (p. 30-31)
This column comprises the judges' comments on the shortlisted works for the 2012 Age Book of the Year Award. (The list includes three titles, outside the scope of AustLit, by James Boyce, Paul Ham and Jane Gleeson-White.)
Next Time Robyn Annear , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Monthly , February no. 86 2013; (p. 40-43)
Last amended 9 Sep 2020 10:36:47
Subjects:
  • Kinglake, Whittlesea area, Melbourne Outer North, Melbourne, Victoria,
  • 2009
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