Mondrook resident Tanya Sawyer’s popular first novel, One Horizon, is now available as an e-book.
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One Horizon. At the edge of the world was self-published in paperback in late 2016, but quickly sold out.
As self-publishing is an expensive business, Tanya could not afford a reprint at this stage, so is offering her book electronically in PDF and epub versions.
One Horizon was a mammoth labour of 10 years of research and writing for Tanya. It blends the factual story of the shipwrecked Dutch ship, the Zuytdorp, on the Western Australian coast in 1712 with the theory that survivors from that shipwreck came ashore and were helped by Aboriginal people, perhaps even becoming part of their tribe.
The result of all of Tanya’s research is a cracking story, full of fascinating details of Aboriginal life in the harsh desert environment.
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You can purchase a copy of the ebook by emailing Tanya at tcsawyer@gmail.com. The cost of the ebook is $10, and you can pay by either PayPal or direct deposit.
There are also copies available at Taree and Wingham libraries.
Tanya is now hard a work writing her second novel – a follow on from One Horizon.
She says she still has a lot of research to do, but has started writing and “has a couple of chapters down” in first draft.
“I’ve got a starting point, and direction now,” Tanya says.
The book is based on the family history of Jed Morgan, an Aboriginal character in One Horizon, and following his bloodline back to early ancestors – a “gathering of the threads of generations,” Tanya says.
The second book will highlight earlier colonial days, and shine a light on Aboriginal missions and the way the First Australians were victimised by white landholders.
The West Australian landscape will also take a spotlight, as it did in the first book. Tanya’s research is meticulous, and she has travelled to the other side of Australia many times.
“I’ve been over and I’ve soaked up as much as I can,” Tanya said.
If her debut novel is anything to go by, Tanya’s book will be another fascinating read and not to be missed.