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- Published 20150203
- ISBN: 9781922182678
- Extent: 264 pp
- Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook
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Amanda Curtin
Amanda Curtin is a writer, book editor and adjunct lecturer at Edith Cowan University. She has published two novels, Elemental (UWA Press, 2014), shortlisted...
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