A Man of Honour

The target is a man. I am the bullet.

A Man of Honour
Simon Smith
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Trade Paperback
h234 x 153mm
7 Feb 2023 AU
International import eta 7-19 days
9781760687854
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One fine March day in 1868, gunshots rang out at a society charity event in Sydney' s harbourside suburb of Clontarf. In the aftermath, Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh - son of Queen Victoria - lay close to death, while the assembled crowd seized and beat his attacker, Irish-born Henry James O' Farrell. Who was this character who began the day a complete unknown and ended it as the young colony' s most hated man? A Man of Honour is a richly textured, lyrical reimagining of O' Farrell' s life, before and after the would-be assassination. Simon Smith paints a portrait of a very modern anti-hero: a man whose love for his family, his God, his birth country and his Fenian brotherhood is strong, but whose life is ultimately skewed by illness and by the cruelty of some of those closest to him. Drawing on contemporary newspaper accounts and on O' Farrell' s actual words as revealed in gaol-cell interviews, court transcripts and his own writings, Smith asks: What makes a charming, sensitive and erudite man want to arm himself and shoot the son of the world' s most powerful ruler? Is he a terrorist, a patriot, a hero?
Simon Smith is a respected cinematographer who has spent the last four decades shooting documentaries for Australian TV and film. He has been privileged to hear and record the stories of First Nations communities, survivors of the atom bomb and the genocide of Cambodia, soldiers and artists and thinkers of all kinds the world over. With his camera, he has travelled all over Australia, China, Japan, Indonesia, PNG and Vanuatu, North America and Europe. ' Someone in our family shot a prince' was a story told to Simon by his mother when he was a young boy. It thrilled him then, and thrilled him again when he stumbled on it, in magical ways, almost a decade ago. He knew he had to find out more, and tell the world. Simon plunged into researching the facts behind the family story. Then he began to write. The result is his first novel: A Man of Honour. Simon lives with his partner Ron, and their beloved cat Danny Boy, on Gadigal Land at Darlinghurst - only 100 metres from where his relative, Henry James O' Farrell, was incarcerated, tried and executed.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781760687854
Published: 7 Feb 2023
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Echo Publishing
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Weight: 472g
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