COVER PAGE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PART ONE; 1. WISEMAN'S FERRY; 2. WALKING FOR RECONCILIATION; 3. THE MITCHELL LIBRARY; 4. CENTENARY OF FEDERATION; 5. THE SOCIETY OF GENEALOGISTS; 6. THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE; 7. THREE CRANES WHARF; 8. LIGHTERMEN; 9. THE LONDON POOR; 10. WISEMAN'S LIFE; 11. VOICES AND PICTURES; 12. THE GHOST ROOM; 13. A LITTLE LEARNING; 14. THE NEWS OF THE DAY; 15. HISTORIANS; 16. ABORIGINAL VOICES; 17. THE BUSH AT NIGHT; PART TWO; 18. STARTING TO WRITE; 19. THE ASSEMBLY; 20. THE FICTIONAL QUESTER; 21. THE LAND SPEAKING; PART THREE
22. WHAT HAVE I GOT?23. FINDING THE CHARACTERS; 24. THE ABORIGINAL CHARACTERS; 25. DIALOGUE; 26. THE FIRST READERS; 27. INTO THE WORLD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Summary
Searching for the Secret River is the extraordinary story of how Kate Grenville came to write her award-winning novel, The Secret River. It all began with her ancestor Solomon Wiseman, a convict who later found fortune and settled on the Hawkesbury. Grenville pursued him from Sydney to London and back, and then up the Hawkesbury itself
