Books by TJ Lovat
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In 1833, Samson Cameron sailed into Hobart Town with his new bride, the acclaimed actress Cordelia Bouchier. From staging shows in taverns to opening Hobart’s Theatre Royal, this novel imagines Samson’s life as he sought fame and fortune in colonial Australia.
Thomas and Edward travel to Persia, so recapturing some of the profound influence that Shiite Islam had on Thomas’s identity and development.
April, 1746. Born on the final day of the Jacobite Rebellion at Culloden, Thomas Lovat enters the world on the same day his father departs, killed in action.
The last book in the trilogy that tracks the Lovat family from the devastation of the Jacobite Rebellion in the Scottish Highlands to their resettlement in Australia.
Culloden to Sydney Town
A work of historical fiction that covers the century from the Lovat family's move from the Scottish Highlands to its arrival in New South Wales.
The Van Diemen’s Land Thespian
The Jacobite
Grandson - book 2
A work of fiction reflecting real-world events, set in 1956. The story recounts the growing relationship between the two key characters – an eight-year-old altar boy and the parish’s assistant priest – one that begins with grooming and culminates in sexual abuse.
A Priest and A Boy
The History of Islam
This book applies philosophical and critical textual scholarship to the traditional Islamic narrative in an attempt to distinguish between its historical and interpretive elements, allowing the narrative to be preserved with due respect for its significance and distinctiveness.
Son of a
Jacobite - book 1
Jacobite Sons in New South Wales - book 3
The Art and Heart of Good Teaching
This book summarizes and updates findings from the Australian Values Education Program with a focus on the latest international research in the field, both theoretical and practice-based, offering well-tested alternative pedagogical approaches, based on classroom-based practice research.
Reconciling Islam, Christianity and Judaism
When so-called Islamic radicalism, terrorism and Jihadism occupy major media space, with Islam often depicted as the main culprit, the book attempts a tour de force, proposing that Islam is as much victim as culprit in the history that has led to the current hostility.