This Ragged Grace by Octavia Bright

This Ragged Grace by Octavia BrightI kept putting myself in danger, and I couldn't make it stop. It rarely felt like a choice, though, of course, in some ways it was. It's only the death drive, my dear, Freud would likely tell me, if I lay my body down on his carpet covered couch. Everybody needs a little oblivion. Besides, what is the fantasy of the knight on a white charger if not an abandonment wish? A desire to be rescued from your own life by a story. But if addiction is rooted in

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' - Ella Archibald-Binge

As Ray navigates this double life

} Archie Roach AM's deeply personal song

He traces Aboriginal attempts to accommodate the 'people of the sheep' and their pastoralist totem

Social worker and counsellor Erin Riley is a recipient of Penguin Random House Australia's 2021 Write It fellowship program

2021 VICTORIAN PREMIER S LITERARY AWARDS

David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier

authentic and freshly engaging account of pastoral life

especially those with a good plot twist