![]() ![]() Reviewers praised the clean, healthy, wholesome, pleasant and purely Australian character of the saga of the Linton family of Billabong Station.īecause of her great (and continuing) popularity Mary Grant Bruce's books are not hard to find in secondhand and antiquarian bookshops. Although it included others, the centrepiece of her main body of work was the immensely popular Billabong series, in which there were fifteen novels. All were published by Ward Lock & Co of London. Mrs Bruce wrote a total of 38 major works, beginning with A Little Bush Maid in 1910 and ending with Billabong Riders in 1942. ![]() Mary (born Minnie) Grant Bruce was one of the most popular writers of Australian fiction for children and young adults in the period from the turn of the 19th century to the middle of World War II. ![]()
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