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Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife takes out Book of the Year

Leah Purcell's A Drover's Wife has been named Book of the Year in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

When the indigenous actress and director, Leah Purcell, took out her mother's tattered copy of Henry Lawson's short stories, she had no idea that the script she would bang out in seven days would be named Book of the Year in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Monday night.

The plants are the stars here

Angela Lober with her work at the Royal Botanic Garden.

Visitors to this year's Botanica exhibition at the Royal Botanic Garden are drawn almost irresistibly to Angela Lober's remarkable depiction of a Gymea lily that faces them as they walk in the door.