Only Killers and Thieves, (Paperback)

from Dave068

Outstanding and profoundly moving

from Lauranthalas

One of my favorite books for 2018! A Western and a wonderful coming-of-age novel. Two brothers, Tommy and Billy McBride, come from a struggling farm due to a long drought. One day after it rains and the boys come home from a swimming hole, they find their parents murder and their sister on the ve...

from zmagic69

To write a story this dark, with only a hint of redemption in it, requires an expert writing ability. The fact that this is the author's fist book is nearly impossible to believe. It's not filled with gimmicks, he doesn't show off, he simply writes a story that takes place in the late 1800's in A...

from msf59

"The guilt is collective, the responsibility shared. In a hundred years no one will even remember what happened here and certainly no one will care. History is forgetting. Afterward we write the account, the account becomes truth, and we tell ourselves it has always been this way, that others wer...

from DeltaQueen50

Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth is an epic story about the Australian frontier in 1880s. It tells the story of the MacBride family, scratching a living out of raising cattle in the Outback wilderness of Queensland. Australia was finding that as more white people moved into the area with ...