Tickets: Free event, all welcome.James Boyce's Van Diemen's Land (2008) won the Tasmania Book Prize in 2009 and was co-winner of the 2008 Colin Roderick Award. Venue: Fullers Hobart, 131 Collins St, Hobart James Boyce in conversation with Jeff Sparrow John St, Launcestonġ835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia Venue: The Hobart Bookshop, 22 Salamanca Square, Hobart “In re-imagining Australia’s past,” Richard Flanagan wrote, “it invents a new future.” 1835 continues this untold story.īook launch of 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia With his first book, Van Diemen’s Land, Boyce introduced an utterly fresh approach to the nation’s history.
And he asks the poignant question largely ignored for 175 years: could it have been different? He conjures up the Australian frontier – its complexity, its rawness and the way its legacy is still with us today. He traces the power plays in Hobart, Sydney and London, and describes the key personalities of Melbourne’s early days. In 1835 James Boyce brings this pivotal moment to life. In three years more land – and more people – were conquered than in the preceding fifty. With the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent.
In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney, Tasmanian speculators began sending men and sheep across Bass Strait – and so changed the course of Australian history. In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. And on Thursday 7 July I will be at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne doing the ‘soap box’ from 12.45 to 1.15pm.Īll of these are open public events so please pass the details on to anyone who might be interested.ġ835 charts the story of those Boyce sees as the real founders of Melbourne former convict bushmen and squatter employees, who were already familiar with the environment of Port Phillip before 1835, and shows why it was the settlement of Melbourne, rather than the founding of Sydney, that signalled the emergence of European control over Australia. In addition, On Sunday 24 July at 2pm James will be in conversation with Jeff Sparrow, joint author of Radical Melbourne: A Secret History and editor of Overland, at Fullers in Hobart. Launceston, Wednesday 13 July, 5.30pm, Fullers Launceston, launched by Don Wing Hobart: Tuesday 12 July, 5.30pm, Hobart Bookshop, launched by Michael Roe Melbourne: Thursday 7 July, 6.30pm, Readings Carlton, launched by Michael Cathcart. Launch of JAMES BOYCE’s new book, 1835: the Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia.
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