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Dark-haired girl from the Fiction Department. #pwME
Typing. Slowly, on Waywurru country. Author of 'About a Girl' etc.

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Yellow balls emerging at last in north east Victoria @janephuong.bsky.social @anntics.bsky.social
The yellow ball-like flower of a Billy Button plant against a backdrop of green, with glimpses of blue borage flower and orange Californian poppy in the background.
October 22, 2023 at 11:22 PM
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Naarm stands with Palestine. (Image from Twitter)
A sign at at rally in support of Palestine reads: You don't have to be PALESTINIAN to speak out against GENOCIDE You just need to be HUMAN
October 15, 2023 at 3:22 AM
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In praise of old Viragos.

Eleanor Dark:The Little Company
Stevie Smith: Novel on Yellow Paper
Elizabeth Taylor: The Wedding Group
Christina Stead: The People with the Dogs
Image is of four Virago titles, splayed across each other. The covers have the typical dark green backgrounds with a painting on each cover.
October 14, 2023 at 10:43 PM
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A shelf of of my well-thumbed books I'm using as my header.
A shelf of books with various books by Alice Munro, one by Gertrude Stein,: 'How to Write', and books by Virginia Woolf.
October 14, 2023 at 4:11 AM
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Welcome to Bluesky @curioushusk.bsky.social

Today's book mail from WOB. ❤️ It seems Virago also publishes men if they are relevant.
October 12, 2023 at 11:16 PM
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Sometimes I pretend I'm in a Merchant Ivory production.
My garden.
A sunny garden with lawn, a background of trees, and a magenta pergola with chairs underneath it.
October 10, 2023 at 11:02 PM
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I have Waratahs.
A group of red Waratah flowers, with a mounded, bead-like interior and red outer petals, against a background of green leaves in a suburban garden.
October 8, 2023 at 10:10 PM
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50 years since Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for literature.
#AustralianLiterature
October 5, 2023 at 6:04 AM
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Aquilegia making friends with birches on #SilverTrunkSunday
The trunk of a silver birch tree, with mauve aquilegia flowers growing underneath. They have maidenhair type leaves and pointed petals.
October 1, 2023 at 3:38 AM
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I'm a sybarite. I lie in bed in the morning, drink coffee with oat milk brought to me, and receive book mail like this. I have read it before but needed my own copy. The best, most empathetic, thoroughly researched, and eloquently written biography of Wilde.

#reading
Book: Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann, with an image of a beautiful, young Wilde on the cover.
September 27, 2023 at 11:49 PM
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Hunting the wild borage.

#gardening
A large borage plant with blue flowers.
September 27, 2023 at 1:28 AM
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Because nothing says happy gardening like a border force meerkat.
#gardening
Ben the Border Force meerkat, a garden statue, sitting on a shelf at a shop. In uniform with stern expression.
September 22, 2023 at 3:30 AM
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Without reading it, I will hazard that book, out October 3, should be read by every Australian politician, and anyone with half a heart.
#DavidMarr
A seated man in nineteenth century uniform ,on the cover of a book by David Marr about his ancestors who were in the Aboriginal police.
September 22, 2023 at 12:27 AM