From Squire To Squatter

From the firelit comfort of Burley Old Farm to the raw, dangerous reaches of the Australian bush, Gordon Stables' From Squire to Squatter follows a world in upheaval, where heritage, ambition, and survival collide. At the Broadbent estate in Northumberland, Archie's tenth birthday reveals a loving household of vivid personalities: the imaginative, daring boy; his delicate brother Rupert; and their energetic father, Squire Broadbent, whose relentless reforms are remaking land, buildings, livestock, and even local expectations. As Archie grows toward adventure and responsibility, the novel moves from rural England to harsher frontiers, where Bob Cooper's bush-tale of diggings, violence, gold, and hard-earned friendship opens into a life of peril and hope. Archie's recovery in Sydney, Bob's joyous wedding to Sarah, and their excursions through the city and Blue Mountains bring warmth, humor, and hard-won happiness. Yet the story never loses its edge: practical Mr. Winslow offers blunt counsel about the Bush, and a later massacre, followed by the kidnapping of a child, restores the novel's tension, urgency, and sense of frontier danger. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.