Flames of Convention was the third novel by F. J. Thwaites.
The novel was adapted for the radio.
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.
Eighteen months after publication, it was alleged that a section of Chapter Fifteen the book closely resembled the opening chapter of ' (1912) by David Phillips.
In 1935 it was announced the book would be filmed in England but this did not happen.