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'This is the true story of Captain Thunderbolt and his lady. "Bail up!" demanded Captain Thunderbolt before he shouted the bar with the inn keeper's own profits. Driven into banditry by injustice, this colonial Robin Hood, magnificent horseman and skilled bushman was celebrated by his victims as vigorously as he was hunted by the law. She was his chief lieutenant, his eyes and his ears. Intelligent and beautiful, Mary Ann Bugg dressed as a man, rode like a man, and helped keep Thunderbolt ahead of the troopers and trackers intent on pursuing him to his end. Until one day...
'Compellingly written and richly detailed, Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady has it all - action, drama, and two protagonists who defied social conventions for freedom. This is an unputdownable story of an extraordinary partnership and a fresh retelling of one of Australia's greatest bushranging stories.' (From the publisher's website.)
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A Criminal Record: Women and Australian True Crime Stories
2017
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 7 November 2017;'Women have always been central to true crime stories: as victims, perpetrators, readers, and (increasingly) as tellers of these tales. Indeed, these tales, often dismissed as sensationalised violence, offer important opportunities to reflect on crime and crime control.
'Many true crime writers today – including numerous women, working in a once male-dominated market – have been biographers, coroners, detectives, historians, journalists, lawyers, and psychologists. These backgrounds bring a style of storytelling that educates us about, not just merely entertains us with, crime. Importantly, many privilege complex and nuanced storytelling over simplistic stereotypes of women as just 'bad' or just 'good'. (Introduction)
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What We're Reading
2012
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review
— Appears in: Inside History , January - February no. 8 2012; (p. 68-69)
— Review of Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady : The True Story of Bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg 2011 single work biography -
A Thief and a Gentleman
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 -13 November 2011; (p. 20)
— Review of Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady : The True Story of Bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg 2011 single work biography -
In Short : Nonfiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 October 2011; (p. 35)
— Review of Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady : The True Story of Bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg 2011 single work biography ; George Smith : The Biography 2011 single work biography -
Thunderbolt's Intriguing Accomplice
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 September 2011; (p. 27)
— Review of Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady : The True Story of Bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg 2011 single work biography
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Recounts Stand but Don't Deliver
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 24 September 2011; (p. 33)
— Review of Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady : The True Story of Bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg 2011 single work biography ; The Bushrangers : Australia's Greatest Self-Made Heroes 2011 selected work biography -
Thunderbolt's Intriguing Accomplice
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 September 2011; (p. 27)
— Review of Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady : The True Story of Bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg 2011 single work biography -
In Short : Nonfiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 October 2011; (p. 35)
— Review of Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady : The True Story of Bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg 2011 single work biography ; George Smith : The Biography 2011 single work biography -
A Thief and a Gentleman
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 -13 November 2011; (p. 20)
— Review of Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady : The True Story of Bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg 2011 single work biography -
What We're Reading
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside History , January - February no. 8 2012; (p. 68-69)
— Review of Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady : The True Story of Bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg 2011 single work biography -
A Criminal Record: Women and Australian True Crime Stories
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 7 November 2017;'Women have always been central to true crime stories: as victims, perpetrators, readers, and (increasingly) as tellers of these tales. Indeed, these tales, often dismissed as sensationalised violence, offer important opportunities to reflect on crime and crime control.
'Many true crime writers today – including numerous women, working in a once male-dominated market – have been biographers, coroners, detectives, historians, journalists, lawyers, and psychologists. These backgrounds bring a style of storytelling that educates us about, not just merely entertains us with, crime. Importantly, many privilege complex and nuanced storytelling over simplistic stereotypes of women as just 'bad' or just 'good'. (Introduction)
Awards
- 2013 first prize SWW Book Awards — Non Fiction
- 2012 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best True Crime Book