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Bone and Beauty:
The Ribbon Boys' Rebellion

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Overview

October 1830

Rebelling from years of maltreatment and starvation, a band of Ribbon Boys liberate eighty convicts from Bathurst farms and lead them inland towards freedom. Governor Darling, fearing that others would also rise up, sends the 39th Regiment in pursuit. Three bloody battles follow, but to whom will justice be served?

Rich with detail, Bone and Beauty fuses archival evidence and narrative technique to tell the gripping story of the Ribbon Boys and their reputed leader Ralph Entwistle. For the first time, the influence of Irish secret societies, the scale of oppression and corruption, and the complex web of criminal and family relationships behind these events are revealed.

Details
Jeanette M Thompson, author of Bone and Beauty: The Ribbon Boys Rebellion
Photo by Linda Pasfield Photography

Jeanette M Thompson

Jeanette Thompson graduated as Doctor of Creative Arts from the University of Technology Sydney. Jeanette’s upcoming 2020 novel, Bone and Beauty, grew out of her research into Australian colonial history and creative nonfiction writing. She has been a lecturer in Children's Literature, Charles Sturt University, and a tutor for the Family History Unit, University of Tasmania. Her research and community writing have explored ways of making history accessible and engaging for a wide variety of audiences.