Flames of Convention was the third novel by F. J.
[2] An artist, Brett Hardy, and his beloved, a squatter's daughter, defy convention to live their lives their own way and suffer for it.
The novel is set in Sydney and rural New South Wales.
[3] Eighteen months after publication, it was alleged that a section of Chapter Fifteen the book closely resembled the opening chapter of Susan Lennox: Her Fall and Rise (1912) by David Phillips.
[4][5][6] In 1935 it was announced the book would be filmed in England but this did not happen.