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David’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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David Levell
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November 2011
Who wrote ‘The Streets of Forbes’?
Of Australia’s many bushranger songs, The Streets of Forbes ranks as one of best, most popular and most frequently recorded. A folkloric recasting of Ben Hall’s death on this day in 1865, it ends with the Forbes police riding his bullet-riddled body through the goldrush town’s streets, strapped across a horse’s back.
Adding interest is the likelihood that its words were written by Ben Hall’s close
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Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror 2006
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Tour to Hell: Convict Australia's Great Escape Myths
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My War: Life Is For Living
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| A superb novelisation of the Theseus myth, presenting it as real-world Mycenaean Greek history rather than a fantasy of gods and monsters. A Theseus such as this, we can imagine, could well have inspired the stories that have come down to us. I devou ...more | |
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| A captivating Arthurian Christmas story of enchantment, chivalry, quest and test. Brian Stone's flowing verse translation retains the alliterative quality of the original's 14th-century Middle English, and his notes discuss the difficulties of the ta ...more | |
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Partly autobiographical and partly inspirational, Ray Bradbury's unbridled gusto and zest (to use two of his favourite words) and joyous enthusiasm for writing leaps whooping and hollering from the page, and it's all rather infectious. Instead of bei ...more |
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