Showing posts with label rich people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rich people. Show all posts

Saturday, 7 November 2015

Miles off course

Title: Miles off course
Series: Rowland Sinclair novels, 3
Author: Gentill, Sulari
Narrator: Stevenson, Kaye
Audiobook
Publisher: Queensland Narrating Service
Release Year: 2012
Set in: 1930s, Blue Mountain, NSW


About the Book:
It centers around artist Rowland 'Rowly' Sinclair and his artist friends in 1930s Australia. Rowland spends his days painting and living off the wealth of pastoral family, that's is until he is enlisted by his older brother Wilfred to help track down his family's most trusted and oldest stock-man, an aboriginal tracker called Harry Simpson.

This leads Rowland and his bohemian friends into an ever deepening mystery, that goes further than the missing stock-man, involving kidnapping and betrayal in the Australian High Country under the backdrop of politics of the era.



A few right thinking men

Title: A few right thinking men
Series: Rowland Sinclair novels, 1
Author: Gentill, Sulari
Narrator: Sharpe, John
Audiobook
Publisher: Brisbane : Queensland Narrating Service
Release Year: 2011
Set in: 1930s, Sydney, Australia

About the Book:
It's Sydney 1931 and Australia is in the midst of the Great Depression. While the wealthy upper classes do their best to maintain their lavish lifestyles, unemployed line the streets and unrest brews in all levels of society.

Rowland Sinclair is an artist and a gentleman. In Australia's 1930s the Sinclair name is respectable and influential, yet Rowland has a talent for scandal.

Rowland's sheltered world is one of exorbitant wealth, culture and impeccable tailoring. He relies on the Sinclair fortune to indulge his artistic passions and friends - a poet, a painter and a brazen sculptress.