The Lambing Flat
 The Lambing Flat is a novel written by Australian author Nerida Newton and was first published in 2003. It was Newton's first novel. She has since written a second novel Death of a Whaler.The novel is set in the mid-nineteenth century Australian gold rushes.The main characters are Ella the daughter of a grazier who grew up on an isolated drought-ridden Queensland property.Lok and his father who come from China in search of gold. They are caught up in the infamous Lambing Flat riots.