The Celestials by Ian Roberts
This closely woven Chinese, Irish and Australian story begins in Canton during the Opium Wars and expands in the Australian Gold Rush of the 19th century. The Chinese miners are entwined in adversity with the rural Irish poor and notorious Kelly Gang.
Ian Roberts worked in the performing arts in Australia from the mid-1970s in administrative roles. He has been a chair and board member of many arts organisations and government agencies for over 50 years. In 2001, Roberts took up a career in writing, principally as a ghost-writer and editor of speeches and newspaper articles for business leaders and philanthropists. In the early 2000s Roberts returned to his lifelong interest in photography and presented a solo exhibition Plottings: Images before the shore. The images in The Celestials have been created by Roberts from photographs he took in the Beechworth region and Vietnam over the last twenty years. The Celestials is Roberts’ first full-length work. His short stories have been published by Allen and Unwin and various newspapers, including Neo Kosmos.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781922952806 |
| Title | The Celestials |
| Author | Ian Roberts |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Australian Scholarly Publishing |
| Year published | 2023-10-21 |
| Number of pages | 233 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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