Blogs in January 1970

48 Shades of Brown 1st January 1970

Dan’s sixteen, about to start his final year at school, and his parents have gone overseas for a year. Jacq’s twenty-two, drops by uni for the occasional class, and plays in a rock band that might be called Crimplene....

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Freycinet 1st January 1970

Freycinet is about obsessive love and cruel murder in the Tasmanian wilderness, as Ginny O’Byrne experiences disturbing visions of torturous fates for two missing young women. In Freycinet (pronounced Frey-sin-ay), Ginny is simultaneously enchanted but also strangely horrified by...

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Thirty Days in Sydney 1st January 1970

Subtitled “a wildly distorted account” it is pretty much that: an oblique, poignant, entertaining and rather candid look at the city. Using his prize-winning novelist’s eye for telling detail, and the objectivity of the relative outsider (Carey has spent...

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Shallows 1st January 1970

Tim Winton brings the landscape to life in Shallows, a historical fiction novel about pride and loneliness. One hundred and fifty years after the establishment of land-based whaling in Australia, its last outpost is Angelus, a small town already...

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His Father’s Son 1st January 1970

Australia is the Lucky Country, and Joey Driscol knows it. It’s a far cry from his native Ireland, but he believes this is the place he and his wife can make a new life and forget the troubles of...

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