Great South Land Saga

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The Great South Land Saga was a series of 12 novels by E. V. Timms and his wife Alma. [1] [2]

Edward Vivian Timms (1895–1960), better known as E. V. Timms, was an Australian novelist and screenwriter. He was injured serving in the Gallipoli Campaign during World War I and was an unsuccessful soldier settler before turning to writing. He became a popular novelist, and also wrote scripts for films and radio. He served as an officer during World War II and was on duty the night of the Cowra breakout.

From the beginning, Timms envisioned a 12-part series of novels. However he died while writing the eleventh and his wife took over the completion of that. She then wrote the last novel on her own.

By the late 1970s it was estimated over 850,000 copies of the novels had been sold. [3]

Novels

  1. Forever to Remain (1948)
  2. The Pathway of the Sun (1949)
  3. The Beckoning Shore (1950)
  4. The Valleys Beyond (1951)
  5. The Challenge (1952)
  6. The Scarlet Frontier (1953)
  7. The Fury (1954)
  8. They Came from the Sea (1955)
  9. Shining Harvest (1956)
  10. Robina (1958)
  11. The Big Country (1962)
  12. Time and Chance (1971) – by Alma Timms

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Forever to Remain is a 1948 novel by E. V. Timms, the first in his Great South Land Saga series of novels. He wrote it intending to be the first in a 12-part series of novels. It is set in West Australia, where Timms had spent some of his childhood.

<i>The Valleys Beyond</i> book by E.V. Timms

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<i>They Came from the Sea</i> book by E.V. Timms

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<i>Shining Harvest</i> book by E.V. Timms

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Robina is an Australian novel by E. V. Timms. It was the tenth in his Great South Land Saga of novels.

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<i>Time and Chance</i> (Timms novel)

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References

  1. Great South Land Saga at AustLit
  2. Anthony Barker, 'Timms, Edward Vivian (1895–1960)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published in hardcopy 1990, accessed online 15 October 2014
  3. "Advertising". The Australian Women's Weekly . National Library of Australia. 25 January 1978. p. 77. Retrieved 19 October 2014.