Blogs in January 1970

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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The Hunter 1st January 1970

The hunter arrives in an isolated community in the Tasmanian wilderness with a single purpose in mind: to find the last thylacine, the tiger of fable, fear and legend. The man is in the employ of the mysterious ‘Company’,...

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Everybody Jam 1st January 1970

Danny Dawson lives in the middle of the Australian outback. His older brother Jonny was killed in an accident last year but no-one ever talks about it. And now it’s time for the annual muster. The biggest event of...

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A Town Like Alice 1st January 1970

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Australia: A Biography of a Nation 1st January 1970

Australia celebrates one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book – part history, part travelogue, part memoir – tells the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident...

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