Books

Four novels, one question asked four ways.

Who gets remembered when the gold runs out, and who gets left to the margins of the ledger?

Cover of The Assayer's Wife by Priya Raman
Novel

The Assayer’s Wife

A wife left to keep the ledger when the goldfield swallowed her husband’s name — and the fortune nobody thought a woman could account for.

Cover of Ballarat Rain by Priya Raman
Novel

Ballarat Rain

A wet season on the diggings, told through the women who kept the camp fed, clothed and quietly running while the men chased colour in the mud.

Cover of A Ledger of Small Fortunes by Priya Raman
Novel

A Ledger of Small Fortunes

Six accounts, six goldfields, six fortunes too small for the history books — traced through ledgers the men who made them never thought worth keeping.

Cover of Letters from the Diggings by Priya Raman
Novel

Letters from the Diggings

The correspondence a goldfields family sent home and never expected strangers to read, assembled into the story the letters were too careful to tell outright.

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