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An urgent generational novel by a talented Australian writer. When two frustrated artists take jobs at a remote weather station in Australia's Northern Territory--in hopes of finding solitude and insp…
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An Open Swimmer
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Edenglassie
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Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mu…
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Blood
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Tin Man
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This is almost a love story.

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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
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The Passengers
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A luminous novel about love by an acclaimed rising star of Australian literature.

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