Bøker av Bruce Ryan

DEATH SPLIT HIS FAMILY APART. NOW HALF A WORLD AWAY, GEORGE DEDICATES HIS LIFE TO FIGHTING THE INJUSTICE...Sweeping from early 1800s England to the early colonies of Australia, George Douglas is raised in an orphanage after the death of his mother and sister and the traumatic separation from his two remaining brothers.Clinging tells the story of a man who, with little to his name but a troubled history, spends his years fighting the unjust treatment of First Australians at the hands of greedy immigrant land holders.Fighting for the Wiradjuri people, George sees firsthand the cruelty of a new colonial Australia establishment and risks his life to protect and amend these atrocities."A timely and moving book that angers, inspires and delivers compassion and truth to our darkened history... Brilliant work..." Taryn, Readalot reviewer

1936Germany gained the right to conduct the 1936 Olympics, though many countries were uneasy about giving the games to the country they had seen plunge the world into war. Several nations threatened boycotts, not only because of the Great War but the more recent persecution of the Roma and Sinti people and the new doctrine of racial purity.Robert O'Calahan's selection as an Australian Olympic Team doctor leads his life to unexpected change as he is drawn into long hidden family secrets to the Roma and Sinti coalition in Australia of which he had no knowledge.Robert and a number of operatives, strive to contact German "Gypsies" and other dissidents to gain any proof of the atrocities committed by the Germans during the last decades but are soon confronted by the developing evil rising almost unstopped across Europe.The deadly game of cat and mouse ensues and sees members of the Olympic team in dangerous life-threatening situations and even the killing of several people who are surreptitiously trying to stop the heartless Nazi German master race."An exciting and confronting thriller by a new talent in Australian historical writing. Edge of the seat enjoyment..." Harold, IndieBook Reviewer