Ten Creeks Run

''Ten Creeks Run : A Tale of the Horse and Cattle Stations of the Murrumbidgee'' (1930) is a novel by Australian writer Miles Franklin.

Originally published as by "Brent of Bin Bin", this novel forms the second part of a trilogy, preceded by ''Up the Country'' (1928) and followed by ''Cockatoos'' (1955).

Story outline

While not being a direct sequel to ''Up the Country'' this novel also concerns the Murrumbidgee country and the second and third generations of the Mazeres, the Pooles, the Stantons, the Healeys, and the Milfords, who also featured in the first novel.

Critical reception

While admitting that the novel is not up to the standard of its predecessor a reviewer in ''The Sydney Mail'' found "as a tale, its characters (and there are a host of them) are drawn with a skill and clarity that prove the author to be not only a keen observer, but a true artist."

A reviewer in ''The Australasian'' indicated that the book has some good points: "There may be some who will find his story a little tedious, but they will be those to whom the history of the pioneering days of their country matters little. From a literary point of view the quality of the book is uneven, indeed astonishingly uneven. But in deep human interest it lacks nothing.""New Novels", ''The Australasian'', 21 June 1930, p5
/ref> (Note: at the time this review was written reviewers were still unsure about the identity of the novel's author - hence the gender confusion.)

See also

* 1930 in Australian literature

References

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Novels by Miles Franklin
1930 Australian novels
William Blackwood books
Novels set in New South Wales