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April 1986, no. 79

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European Vision and the South Pacific by Bernard Smith

'Self Portrait' by Barry Dickins

From Bookstall to Boom: Paperback publishing in Australia

The Farthest North of Humanness: Letters of Percy Grainger edited by Kay Dreyfus

The Cloud Passes Over by Robert Harris

The Night We Ate the Sparrow: A memoir and fourteen stories by Morris Lurie

Borderline by Janette Turner Hospital

About Tilly Beamis by Sumner Locke Elliott

Nuns in Jeopardy by Martin Boyd

Lasseter: The making of a legend by Billy Marshall-Stoneking

Starters & Writers