Michael Ball alerted me about a new book to be released on April 1, 2012 called "Glenrowan" by Ian W. Shaw.
He sent me this link http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Glenrowan-Ian-W-Shaw/9781742610986?cf=3 that had the following blurb about the book:
"It's the story of Ned Kelly - a man who made too many mistakes in too short a time. Joe Byrne who toasted the success of the gang one moment and bled to death on the hotel floor the next. Dan Kelly and Steve Hart who preferred to die rather than surrender. Sergeant Arthur Steele, who was twice warned by his own men that they would shoot him if he kept trying to kill unarmed people. Ann Jones the struggling owner of the hotel and the railway guard Jesse Dowsett who took on Ned Kelly in a face-to-face shootout. In 'Glenrowan' the real heroes - and the real villains - take centre stage, just as they did at Glenrowan in June 1880."
Looking forward to hearing reviews of this book from others once it is published. If I could get my hands on one over here in the USA you can rest assured I would give it a thorough going over and would report in depth on it! I seriously doubt that there would be much of anything new to me in it as I have been intensely studying the Kelly Gang for nearly a decade (of course, some aspects of the saga, like the siege, hold more interest for me than others), but I would surely like to see how it is put together and presented. I wish the author a great deal of success with it!
At the publisher's website I found an image of the proposed cover:
http://www.panmacmillan.com.au/display_title.asp?ISBN=9781742610986&Author=Shaw,%20Ian%20W.
Thanks again to Michael who has helped this blog be first with lots of new info!
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I think that's very harsh.
Half way through the book and I have to say that I agree(with the book). Assuming that Ian W. Shaw has researched the story accurately. From the book I got the impression that Ned Kelly's attitude was like drawing a line in the sand. Fail or succeed he was determined to fight it out at Glenrowan. In the process crucial errors would lead to his downfall. But in my mind he seemed to accept it as fate.
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