Death Pudding: The Kilcoy Massacre

by James G. Lergessner

It examines in detail the Kilcoy massacre of 50-60 Aborigines at Kilcoy Station in 1842- the background and people involved prior to, during and after the incident. As a sub-text to the historical events it offers letters constructed by the author as a parallel story of the early colonial life QLD and NSW, the Australian Colony of NSW and Brisbane River Valley and Darling Downs stations.

368 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 2007

Reviews

[Shaun · Rating 2 out of 5]

The history was interesting and confronting. I'm not sure of the point of the fictional parts scattered throughout. I guess it was to tie the disjointed historic parts together but I found it annoying.