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Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter

Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter( )
Author: Wilkinson, Carole
Read by: Greenslade, Francis
ISBN:978-1-921104-97-8
Publication Date:Feb 2007
Publisher:Louis Braille Audio
Book Format:CD-Audio
Paperback
List Price:AUD $55.95
Book Description:

'I have been wronged...' Ned Kelly was a dangerous man - a thief, a bank robber and a murderer. Yet when he was sentenced to hang, thousands of people rallied to save his life. In the Jerilderie Letter we hear from Ned in his own words. Wicked, angry, vividly descriptive - this is Neds justification to his countrymen of how it all transpired. Superbly edited by award-winning Ned Kelly expert, Carole Wilkinson, this is one of the most important documents of Australias history.

Author Biography
Wilkinson, Carole (Author)


Carole Wilkinson was born in 1950 in Derby England. Up until age 40 she worked as a laboratory assistant. It was then that she wanted a change of career. She began to take classes in writing at a university. She showed some of her writing to a friend who worked in the publishing industry. This lead to a commission to write her first novel for teenagers. Since then she has gone on to write several books. She has also written episodes for children's television. She is best known for her Dragonkeeper books.

She won the Aurealis Award 2014 in the category of Children's Fiction with her title Shadow Sister: Dragon Keeper. In 2016, she won the Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature in the Nonfiction category for her book, Atmospheric.

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