by NRB | 6 Jun 2017 | Non-fiction |
This is a passionate argument for a wider Australian history. Never have so many ringing phrases from so many historians rung so true. Every weekend I drive down Anzac Highway to my home in Plympton, passing the Keswick Army Barracks, and note a sign to the Army...
by NRB | 1 Sep 2015 | Crime Scene |
Dapin’s prose crackles and pops, at turns bloody and poignant, in this novel of the Vietnam War. ‘You know what?’ said Caution. ‘Nobody else in the world gives a damn whether you’re an Aussie or some other kind of faggot. There ain’t one single soul in America who...
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