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Australian books

15 December 2018

9:00 AM

15 December 2018

9:00 AM

There is the feeling that after ten years of political failures and assorted cultural nonsense the community is yearning for simpler times with answerable questions. This might explain why a number of books – many of them pretty good – on historical themes appeared in 2018.

One of the most interesting was Australia’s First Spies by John Fahey (Allen & Unwin).

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