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Gary Taaffe
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Four Small Stones (Urban Hunters #1)
— published 2011 — 4 editions |
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Tribal Scarring (Urban Hunters #2)
— published 2011 — 3 editions |
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Walkabout (Urban Hunters #3)
— published 2012 — 2 editions |
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Budgie Smugglers (Urban Hunters #4)
— published 2012 — 2 editions |
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Urban Hunters Collection Books 1 to 3
— published 2012 — 2 editions |
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Bullies (Urban Hunters #5)
— published 2013 |
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The Urban Hunters is like The Jungle Book set in Aboriginal Australia. When I saw the subtitle, “Billy’s Gotta Find Some Girls,” I knew I had to read it. I was pulled in from the first page by how vivid and visual the writing was. I was immersed i...
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I loved the glossary in this book. I know that sounds weird, but let me explain. The author, Gary, talks about how there’s a “rule” in writing that you shouldn’t use colloquialisms and you should change the spelling to suit whatever country you’re...
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In Walkabout, Billy goes into the “whitefella” culture for the first time and his culture shock is charming, honest and amusing. I loved the Australian lingo throughout the book. Some of the words I’d never heard before, but it wasn’t too difficul...
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Tribal Scarring is the second short story in the Urban Hunters series and it was a little more serious than the first book, Four Small Stones. I missed the light-hearted humor of the first one. Still, it was a nice contrast to see the dangers of l...
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"Thanks heaps for your review, Cassie. I really did try hard to portray life in reality for these Aborigines. When we see people living off the land as...more
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“When you got no future, Billy, you got no past - no dreaming to guide you into the future. Gotta have your dreaming of you get lost...”
― Gary Taaffe, Four Small Stones
― Gary Taaffe, Four Small Stones
