Peter Cochrane

About The Author

Peter Cochrane is an historian and novelist based in Sydney. He is an Honorary Associate in History at University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His most recent work is the novel The Making of Martin Sparrow (Penguin/Viking 2018). The Italian edition was published in Rome in March 2019 under the title La Grande Occasione di Martin Sparrow. His most recent work of non-fiction is Best We Forget: the War for White Australia, 1914-18 (Text Publishing, 2018).

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Books by Peter Cochrane

Colonial Ambition

Foundations of Australian Democracy

By Peter Cochrane

Colonial Ambition tells the story of the politicians and would-be politicians of Sydney, who were driven by a determination to lift themselves and their new colony to a higher level. They wanted parliamentary liberty, though they were sharply divided over the form it might take and these division...

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