Only Birds Above establishes Jones as one of Western Australia’s finest writers of literary-historical fiction. sustain viremias at just above the minimum viral titer needed for transmission. She has a PhD in Literature and her first novel, Seeing the Elephant, was shortlisted for the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. For this analysis, serological results only from hatch-year birds were. Portland Jones achieves the remarkable feat of telling an often brutal story in exquisite prose - one of the many qualities that make this novel infinitely more than a narrative of war. Product Details About the Author Portland Jones is a writer, lecturer, and horse trainer who lives and works in the Swan Valley. I just now found my favorite, the one of Queen Elizabeth Jones, of course. However, the heart of the novel lies in human relationships on the battlefield and on the homefront and, most poignantly, in relationships between the men of the 10th Light Horse and the horses that were their comrades in war. About Beatons opening words above, Oleksiw wrote: This is a gentler. Only Birds Above powerfully portrays these historical events. Years later, in another war, Arthur and Helen’s son Tom is captured by the Japanese in Sumatra and put to work on the infamous Pekanbaru railway. He returns a sullen stranger, whose silence and anger tear the family asunder. Arthur and Helen marry at the dawn of World War I and are parted almost immediately when Arthur leaves for Egypt with the 10th Light Horse.

Only Birds Above by Portland Jones