Title: Only killers and thieves
Description: It is 1885, and a crippling drought threatens to ruin the McBride family. Their land is parched, their cattle starving. When the rain finally comes, it is a miracle that renews their hope for survival. But returning home from an afternoon swimming at a remote waterhole filled by the downpour, fourteen-year-old Tommy and sixteen-year-old Billy meet with a shocking tragedy.
Subjects: Fiction, Brothers, History, Fiction, historical, Australia, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Australia
Time periods: 19th century