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The burning library : our great novelists lost and found / Geordie Williamson ; drawings by W. H. Chong

This work examines the lives and literary contributions of Australian novelists who have become marginalised or forgotten. It aims to reintroduce significant writers to the public record and address their declining status within academic discourse.

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