They Came from the Sea

{{Short description|1955 novel by E.V. Timms}}

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| name = They Came from the Sea

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| image = File:TheyCameFromTheSea.jpg

| caption = First edition

| author = E. V. Timms

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| country = Australia

| language = English

| series = Great South Land Saga

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| publisher = Angus and Robertson

| release_date = 1955

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| pages = 237pp

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| preceded_by = The Fury

| followed_by = Shining Harvest

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They Came from the Sea is a 1955 Australian novel by E. V. Timms. It was the eighth in his Great South Land Saga of novels.

The Argues said "although not in the first rank of recent Australian novels, is an exciting book, full of incident."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71788189 |title=NOVELS. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=24 December 1955 |accessdate=19 October 2014 |page=12 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

The novel was serialised for Australian radio in 1965, adapted by Colin Roderick and read by Max Meldum.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article277004767 |title=FORTHCOMING A.B.C. PROGRAMMES |newspaper=The South-east Kingston Leader |volume=3 |issue=122 |location=South Australia |date=21 January 1965 |accessdate=10 March 2024 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}