Coonardoo: The Well in the Shadow is a novel written by the Australian author Katharine Susannah Prichard

Katharine Susannah Prichard

Katharine Susannah Prichard was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia.-Biography:...

. The novel depicts the Australian landscape beautifully as it once was in the late 20s of the last century. In an age when white settlers tried to control more and more land of the bare plains of north west Australia.

Originally written under the name Jim Ashburton, this novel was joint winner of the Bulletin Novel Competition in 1928. It shared the award with A House is Built by M. Barnard Eldershaw

M. Barnard Eldershaw

M. Barnard Eldershaw was the pseudonym used by the twentieth century Australian literary collaborators Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw...

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It was first serialised in The Bulletin

The Bulletin

The Bulletin was an Australian weekly magazine that was published in Sydney from 1880 until January 2008. It was influential in Australian culture and politics from about 1890 until World War I, the period when it was identified with the "Bulletin school" of Australian literature. Its influence...

magazine in 15 weekly instalments from 5 September 1928.