‘He’d bought the Akubra and the elastic-sided boots but anyone could see he was a city bugger.’
He’d bought the Akubra and the elastic-sided boots but anyone could see he was a city bugger. Boolowa knew all about Will Bashford, the city bloke who’d bought the Phipps place as a hobby farm.
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Memoir by Graeme Armstrong.
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‘The monstrous years of my late teens lay lined up alongside the rest of my life like bullets in a gun.’
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Fiction by K Patrick.
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