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'Five stories to take you away from the anonymity of big cities and into the Mallee. Into communities where everyone knows everyone else’s business or, if they don’t know it, they invent it. Some of these tales begin in different times and faraway places such as Gallipoli or the wartime Blitz of London. They all have their conclusions in the goldfish bowls of small Australian country towns. There is humour here, and obsession, and bigotry. There is murder, mystery and a mother’s love. Five stories from an author who knows the mallee backblocks, who knows the close-knit communities and how lives may be played out within them.' (Publication summary)
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Memories Next Door
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 24 no. 1 2020;
— Review of From the Mallee 2019 selected work short story 'This is an old picture come to life. Colin Rogers’ From the Mallee is a snapshot of 1900s Australia bush life in five short stories, a loving evocation of a style of community life lost to contemporary culture flows, mass transport, and digital democratisation.' (Introduction)
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Memories Next Door
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 24 no. 1 2020;
— Review of From the Mallee 2019 selected work short story 'This is an old picture come to life. Colin Rogers’ From the Mallee is a snapshot of 1900s Australia bush life in five short stories, a loving evocation of a style of community life lost to contemporary culture flows, mass transport, and digital democratisation.' (Introduction)
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