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At its heart, Bruce Pascoe’s Black Duck is a love story of both people and Country
Author Tony Birch reviews a deeply philosophical book by Pascoe and his partner Lyn Harwood about their personal growth and the need to live humbly with the land.
- by Tony Birch
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- by Nova Weetman
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- by Richard Pennell
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- by Bram Presser
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- by Miriam Cosic
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For the first time, the great Colombian novelist has a woman as the central protagonist of one of his novels.
- by Roy Boland
Is this debut novel a sly satire, or just an earnest train wreck?
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- by Beejay Silcox
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