Gale Bishop - Telling speculative, true, historical stories.
Gale Bishop is an Australian writer and historian, focussed on recovering and retelling historically accurate stories from our colonial past. Using the ordinary lives of our extraordinary ancestors, Bishop thoroughly researches her subjects and draws from their lives ripping yarns of adventure, tragedy and romance. Searching within the larger official narratives, Bishop discovers the smaller, personal stories that represent lives too often lost or neglected by traditional academic discourse. Her debut novel, Settled, is the first in a trilogy, exploring the lives and experiences of British emigrants to South Australia - a novel which both engages our imagination and informs us of our past.