Tapping the vein

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Velocity is Mandy Sayers stunning return to autobiography after winning the National Biography Award for Dreamtime Alice. She dives headlong into an alternative world of childhood memories and produces an outstanding piece of writing that refuses to let go of humour and warmth despite the chill of its world.

Author: Blakeney, Sally
Novelists, Criticism and interpretation, Velocity (Book), Sayers, Mandy

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The interpreter

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Shirley Hazzard, the Australian writer, discusses her life and work. She dwells on her endless travels, her experiences in the UN, Hong Kong and Italy, her love for poetry, her family and late husband, Francis Steegmuller, all of whom influenced her writings in a number of ways.

Author: Blakeney, Sally
Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Hazzard, Shirley

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Words never fail

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One of AustraliaEs finest writers, Peter Goldsworthy is a general practitioner when he is not busy penning novels, essays, poems, screenplays or opera librettos. A profile of GoldsworthyEs life and career is presented.

Author: Blakeney, Sally
Goldsworthy, Peter

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Subjects list: Australia, Works, Authors, Australian, Australian writers
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