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Dec 2018
50m 31s

Reading Sydney Noir, finding plague pits...

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A podcast extra edition of the Bookshelf in which Cassie talks Sydney Noir with John Dale, Mandy Sayer and Mark Dapin; Kate talks to children's author Sally Rippin about the bookshelf that made her; Minette Walters has plague pits in her backyard, and Anne Summers talks about the writing strategies and impact of the ... Show More
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