Treasure of the Bosun Bird: A shipwrecked treasure. A mysterious visitor. A fortune hiding in plain sight.
About this ebook
Life on Bosun Island off the coast of tropical Queensland appears to be ticking along quite nicely until the day Cocomama arrives – a little old-lady in a muddy green smock who drops from nowhere, into Merlin Merryweather’s lily-covered pond.
From that moment on, chaos ensues.
For generations, the island has lived in the shadow of a persistent rumour: the lost treasure of the Bosun Bird, a sailing ship loaded with Peruvian gold that vanished in the early 1880s. Most locals have long dismissed the story as folklore. But Cocomama’s unusual arrival stirs something in the island’s memory.
Old secrets shift. Odd clues surface. And suddenly, the treasure feels less like legend and more like unfinished business.
As the hunt gathers pace, Bosuntown’s wonderfully eccentric residents are drawn into the mystery: high-voltage twin sisters keeping watch from the lighthouse, a priest preparing for an epic flood, a musician with a tragic past, and a cast of offbeat locals who know far more than they first admit. Meanwhile, the island’s friendly little volcano begins to rumble.
As fiction, folklore and buried truths begin to blur, one thing becomes impossible to ignore: somewhere in the chaos, the treasure of the Bosun Bird may still be waiting.
‘A warm, witty treasure hunt with mischief on every page.’
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About the author
Tony Matthews is a highly reclusive Welsh-Australian novelist and historian, and has led an interesting life. He has been ‘headhunted’ by the CIA; guarded Queen Elizabeth, and witnessed terrifying events, including being at the centre of one of the bloodiest military coups in modern history. He discovered a royal princess living secretly in Queensland; rescued a drowning man from a flooded Thai river; almost been blown to pieces by a Communist death squad in Manila; volunteered to paint an orphanage on the banks of the famous River Kwai, and, in a desperate attempt to save U.K. beaches and wildlife, helped to destroy a crippled oil tanker off the coast of Cornwall.
Arriving in Australia from the U.K. during the early 1970s, Tony hitch-hiked across the country with just $24 in his pocket and with little real understanding of the immensity of the continent. When he reached the edge of the Nullarbor Plain for example, which was then just a dirt ribbon of track stretching into a waterless infinity, he was the proud possessor of a spare shirt, half a bottle of tepid Coca-Cola, and a well-thumbed volume of Dylan Thomas poems. The rest, as they say, is history. The author is based in Hervey Bay, QLD
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