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The Weekend Book Review. In the ‘detective for everyone’ pattern, there’s nothing new about women writing women detectives (these days we have art-dealing, cab-driving, and handicapped P.Is) and Marela Day has lovingly restored for your reading pleasure this straight hard-boiled detective entertainment.
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Another Review today. I’ve been asked about ‘Classic Australian’ books, but what does that mean? I’m never sure, but this one is always described as a classic. In a way. it is. It’s a book I had to study at school, an account of our early European history here, when the English used the country [...]

An Australian book. I remember idly picking this up from the lounge room bookshelf when I was 12, reading most of the first chapter before my Mum descended out of nowhere to snatch it from me. It was years and years before I got to read it. Here’s my review.
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