The Faraway Drums
{{Short description|Book by Jon Cleary}}
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| publisher = Collins (UK)
William Morrow (US)
| release_date = 1981 (UK), 1982 (US)
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The Faraway Drums is a 1981 novel written by Australian author Jon Cleary about an American journalist and British intelligence officer who try to stop the assassination of King George V at the 1911 Delhi Durbar. Film rights were sold but abandoned after it was realised how much an adaptation would cost.[http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=vagg%20cleary;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 Jon Cleary] Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History at National Film and Sound Archive
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External links
- [http://0-austlit.edu.au.library.sl.nsw.gov.au/run?ex=ShowWork&workId=CYJ; The Faraway Drums] at AustLit (subscription required)
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Category:1981 Australian novels
Category:Novels about journalists
Category:William Collins, Sons books