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The Ballantyne Novels
AuthorWilbur Smith
GenreNovel
PublisherPan Macmillan
Publication date
1980–1984
2005
2019

The Ballantyne Novels are a series of novels published between 1980 and 1984 by Wilbur Smith. They chronicle the lives of the Ballantyne family, from the 1860s to the 1980s against a background of the history of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

A fifth novel published in 2005 seeks to combine the Ballantyne narrative with that of Smith's other family saga, The Courtney Novels. A sixth novel was published in 2019.

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